Robertson, James Brooks Ayers

Robertson, James Brooks Ayers

(1871–1938) governor; born in Keokuk County, Iowa. A schoolteacher and lawyer, he served on the Oklahoma Supreme Court Commission (1911–14). As Democratic governor of Oklahoma (1919–23), he built highways and used the National Guard to end a miner's strike. Indicted for bribery, he avoided conviction by a legal tactic and returned to his law practice.