- Bird Segle McGuire
Bird Segle Mcguire (
October 13 ,1865 -November 9 ,1930 ) was a Delegate and a U.S. Representative fromOklahoma , cousin ofWilliam Neville .Born in
Belleville, Illinois , Mcguire moved toRandolph County, Missouri , in 1867 with his parents.He attended the common schools.He moved toChautauqua County, Kansas , in the spring of 1881, and then to Indian Territory.He engaged in the cattle business.He attended the State normal school atEmporia, Kansas .He taught school several terms. Later attended the law department of theUniversity of Kansas at Lawrence .He was admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice inChautauqua, Kansas .He served as prosecuting attorney ofChautauqua County, Kansas from 1890 to 1894.He moved toPawnee 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 , toMarch 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, untilMarch 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 inTulsa, Oklahoma .He also owned and operated a large ranch nearBartlesville, Oklahoma .He died inTulsa, Oklahoma ,November 9 ,1930 .He was interred in Memorial Park Cemetery.ource
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