Bird Segle McGuire

Bird Segle Mcguire (October 13, 1865 - November 9, 1930) was a Delegate and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, cousin of William Neville.

Born in Belleville, Illinois, Mcguire moved to Randolph County, Missouri, in 1867 with his parents.He attended the common schools.He moved to Chautauqua County, Kansas, in the spring of 1881, and then to Indian Territory.He engaged in the cattle business.He attended the State normal school at Emporia, Kansas.He taught school several terms. Later attended the law department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence.He was admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Chautauqua, Kansas.He served as prosecuting attorney of Chautauqua County, Kansas from 1890 to 1894.He moved to Pawnee County, Oklahoma, in 1894 and practiced law in Pawnee.He was appointed assistant United States attorney for Oklahoma Territory in 1897, in which capacity he served until after his nomination for Congress.

Mcguire was elected as a Republican a Delegate to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1907.

Mcguire was elected as a Representative to the Sixtieth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 16, 1907, when Oklahoma was admitted as a State into the Union, until March 3, 1915.He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-first Congress).He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.He resumed the practice of his profession in Tulsa, Oklahoma.He also owned and operated a large ranch near Bartlesville, Oklahoma.He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 9, 1930.He was interred in Memorial Park Cemetery.

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