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After women in Oklahoma earned the right to vote in 1918, the Oklahoma Senate gained its first female state senator. Lamar Looney was elected in 1920 over a male incumbent, G. L. Wilson. Looney was a progressive Democrat and served from 1921 to 1929.
The Oklahoma House of Representatives and Oklahoma Senate are the two houses that make up the bicameral state legislature. There are 101 state representatives, each serving a two-year term, and 48 state senators, who serve four-year terms that are staggered so only half of the Oklahoma Senate districts are eligible in each election cycle ...
The Oklahoma Senate is composed of 48 members, [1] each representing an electoral district in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2019, the majority of seats are held by Republicans. The current President Pro Tempore is Greg Treat of Oklahoma City.
A handful of high-profile legislative races threw Oklahoma's state House and Senate into turmoil after Tuesday's 2024 primary election.
[a] He is the first Native American senator elected to Congress in nearly two decades, [92] and the second Cherokee Nation citizen elected to the Senate, after Robert Latham Owen, who was a senator for Oklahoma from 1907 to 1925. [2] In 2021, Mullin reported that his personal assets were between $31.6 million and $75.6 million. [93]
State Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, spent nearly two hours reading the text of Senate Bill 1477. The measure, penned by Senate Pro Tempore Greg Treat, changes an education tax credit.
A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 2010, defeating several challengers in primary elections, re-elected in 2014 and served his term until 2017. During his tenure, he established a Republican consulting firm. Shortey was the state campaign chair for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. [1]
Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat discusses the new budget process the Senate will undertake during the 2024 Legislative Session during a press conference at the state Capitol, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023.