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John Kevin Stitt (born December 28, 1972) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2018, defeating Democrat and former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson with 54.3% of the vote.
The average age of governors at the time of their inauguration was about 59 years old. Alabama governor Kay Ivey (born 1944) is the oldest current governor, and Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (born 1982) is the youngest. [16] As of the 2022 elections, there are 12 female state governors currently serving.
Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were combined and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma on November 16, 1907. [21]The Constitution of Oklahoma calls for the election of a governor every four years, to take office on the second Monday in January after the election. [22]
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday he is confident in the state’s current lethal injection protocols and has no plans to endorse a switch to nitrogen gas, even as several states are mulling ...
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt's ongoing feud with many of the Native American tribes in the state has grown so contentious that fellow Republicans in the Legislature and the state's attorney general ...
Oklahoma's first governor, Charles N. Haskell (1860-1933, served 1907-1911), wielded executive power effectively, but in the first 20 years after he left office in 1911, the assertive and dominant Oklahoma Legislature further reduced and limited the governor's office of several of its traditional powers and impeached two state governors: John C ...
The Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate met in a special session Monday and overrode GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt’s vetoes of two bills to extend existing agreements with Native American tribes for ...
Rita Aragon, former Oklahoma Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2011–2019) [48] Brad Henry, Governor of Oklahoma (2003–2011) [49] Michael C. Thompson, Adjutant General of Oklahoma (2017–2021), Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (2011–2017) [50] State senators. George E. Young, 48th district (2019–present) [51] State ...