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33rd Oklahoma Legislature

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{{Infobox legislature

| name = 33rd Oklahoma Legislature

| coa_pic = Flag of Oklahoma (1941–1988).svg

| leader1_type = President of the Senate:

| leader1 = George Nigh | party1 = (D)

| leader2_type = President Pro Tem of the Senate:

| leader2 = Finis Smith | party2 = (D)

| leader3_type = Speaker of the House:

| leader3 = Rex Privett | party3 = (D)

| leader4_type = Term:

| leader4 = January 1971-January 1973

| leader5_type = Composition:

| leader5 = Senate
39 {{Color box|#0000FF|border=darkgray}} 9 {{Color box|#FF0000|border=darkgray}}
House
77 {{Color box|#0000FF|border=darkgray}} 22 {{Color box|#FF0000|border=darkgray}}

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The Thirty-third Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma, composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Oklahoma City from January 5, 1971, to January 2, 1973, during the term of Governor David Hall.[http://www.okhouse.gov/Documents/CenturyToRemember.pdf A Century to Remember] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910204833/http://www.okhouse.gov/Documents/CenturyToRemember.pdf |date=September 10, 2012 }}, [http://www.okhouse.gov/ Oklahoma House of Representatives] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622043630/http://www.okhouse.gov/ |date=June 22, 2013 }} (accessed June 16, 2013)

Finis Smith served as the president pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and Rex Privett served as the speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

Dates of sessions

  • First regular session: January 5-June 11, 1971
  • Special session: July 1, 1971
  • Second regular session: January 4-March 31, 1972

Previous: 32nd Legislature • Next: 34th Legislature

Party composition

=Senate=

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!rowspan=3|Affiliation

!colspan=2|Party

(Shading indicates majority caucus)

!rowspan=3|Total

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| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" |

| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" |

Democratic

!Republican

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|{{party shading/Democratic}}| 39

|{{party shading/Republican}}| 9

! 48

Voting share

!{{party shading/Democratic}}|81.25%

!{{party shading/Republican}}|18.75%

!colspan=2|

=House of Representatives=

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style="vertical-align:bottom;"

!rowspan=3|Affiliation

!colspan=2|Party

(Shading indicates majority caucus)

!rowspan=3|Total

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| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" |

| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" |

Democratic

!Republican

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|{{party shading/Democratic}}| 77

|{{party shading/Republican}}| 22

! 99

Voting share

!{{party shading/Democratic}}|77.8%

!{{party shading/Republican}}|22.2%

!colspan=2|

Major legislation

=Enacted=

1971 legislative session

  • Taxes - HB 1181 increased the taxes on the oil and gas industry by approximately $21 million.

Leadership

Staff

Chief clerk of the House: Louise Stockton

Membership

=Senate=

File:Jim Inhofe official photo.jpg

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! Name !! District !! Party !! Towns

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|William Fred Phelps

1DemGrove, Jay, Miami
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Clem McSpadden

2DemClaremore, Pryor
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Robert Medearis

3DemStilwell, Tahlequah
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|James Hamilton

4DemPoteau, Sallisaw
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Jim Lane

5DemAtoka, Hugo, Idabel
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Bob Trent

6DemDurant
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Gene Stipe

7DemMcAlester
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Tom Payne

8DemOkmulgee, Henryetta
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|John Luton

9DemMuskogee
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|John Dahl

10DemBarnsdall, Fairfax, Pawhuskee
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Allen Nichols

10DemWewoka
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|John Young

12DemBristow, Sapulpa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|George Miller

13DemAda
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Ernest Martin

14DemArdmore
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Glen Ham

15DemNorman
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Phil Smalley

16DemLexington, Norman
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Ralph Graves

17DemShawnee
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Donald Ferrell

18RepChandler, Seminole
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Norman Lamb

19RepEnid
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Roy Grantham

20DemPonca City, Tonkawa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Robert Murphy

21DemStillwater
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Roy C. Boecher

22RepStillwater
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Don Baldwin

23DemChickasha
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Wayne Holden

24DemDuncan
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Herschel Crow

25DemAltus
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Gilmer Capps

26DemElk City
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Ed Berrong

27DemWeatherford
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|G.O. Williams

28RepWoodward, Oklahoma
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Denzil Garrison

29RepBartlesville
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Leon B. Field

30DemGuymon, Texhoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Paul Taliaferro

31DemLawton
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Al Terrill

32DemLawton
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Ed Bradley

33DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|George Hargrave Jr.

34DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Jim Inhofe

35RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Gene C. Howard

36DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Finis Smith

37DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Peyton Breckinridge

38RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Joseph McGraw

39RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Richard Stansberry

40RepOklahoma City
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Bryce Baggett

41DemEdmond, Oklahoma City
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|James F. Howell

42DemMidwest City
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|John Garrett

43DemDel City, Oklahoma City
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|J. Lee Keels

44DemOklahoma City
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Jimmy Birdson

45DemOklahoma City
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Cleeta John Rogers

46DemOklahoma City
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|John R. McCune

40RepOklahoma City
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|E. Melvin Porter

48DemOklahoma City

  • Table based on 2005 Oklahoma Almanac.[http://www.odl.state.ok.us/almanac/2005/14-histry.pdf 2005 Oklahoma Almanac] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218215829/http://www.odl.state.ok.us/almanac/2005/14-histry.pdf |date=2006-02-18 }} (accessed June 28, 2013)

=House of Representatives=

File:Randle-Rodger 1971 House Dist 75.jpg

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! Name !! District !! Party !! County

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Mike Murphy

1DemMcCurtain
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Ray Fine

2DemLeFlore, Sequoyah
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Mike Sullivan

3DemLeFlore
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|William Willis

4DemAdair, Cherokee
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Wiley Sparkman

5DemAdair, Delaware
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|J. D. Witt

6DemCraig, Ottawa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Joseph Mountford

7DemOttawa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|J. D. Whorton

8RepMayes, Rogers
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Bill Briscoe

9DemNowata, Rogers
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Jerry Pierce

10RepWashington
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Charles Doornbos

11RepWashington
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Vol Howard Odom

12DemMuskogee, Wagoner
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Jan Eric Cartwright

13DemMuskogee
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|John L. Monks

14DemMuskogee
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Leo Wynn

15DemMcIntosh, Okmulgee
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Ed Cole

16DemOkmulgee
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Don Huddleston

17DemHaskell, Latimer, Pittsburg
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|William Skeith

18DemPittsburg
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Wayne Sanguin

19DemChoctaw, Pushmataha
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Gary Payne

20DemAtoka, Bryan, Love, Marshall
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Roy Boatner

21DemBryan
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Arthur Carlton

22DemGarvin, Johnston, Murray
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Kenneth Converse

23DemGarvin
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Hugh Sandlin

24DemCoal, Hughes, Pontotoc
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Lonnie Abbott

25DemPontotoc
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Russell Wayland

26DemPottawatomie
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|James Townsend

27DemPottawatomi, Seminole
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|David Boren

28DemSeminole
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Harlon Avey

29DemOkfuskee, Creek
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Heber Finch Jr.

30DemCreek
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Donald Coffin

31DemNoble, Logan
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Barbour Cox

32DemLincoln, Logan
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Allen Williamson

33DemPayne
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Daniel Draper

34DemPayne
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Rex Privett

35DemOsage, Pawnee
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Billy Kennedy

36RepOsage
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Fred Boettcher

37DemKay
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Brian Conaghan

38RepKay
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Lynn Thornhill

39RepAlfalfa, Grant, Major
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Thomas Rogers Jr.

40DemGarfield
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Robert Anderson

41RepGarfield
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|William Gooden

42RepKingfisher, Blaine
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Anna Belle Wiedemann

43DemCanadian
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Lee Byron Cate

44DemCleveland
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Leland Wolf

45DemCleveland
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Charles Elder

46DemGrady, McClain
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Spencer Bernard

47DemGrady, McClain
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Don Duke

48DemCarter
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Bill Bradley

49DemCarter, Jefferson
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|William Tarwater

50DemStephens
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Don Duke

51DemCotton, Stephens
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Howard Cotner

52DemJackson
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Bob Harper

53DemJackson, Tillman
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Victor Wickersham

54DemGreer, Kiowa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Don Greenhaw

55DemCaddo, Washita
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|James Kardokus

56DemCaddo
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|David Stratton

57DemCuster
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Lewis Kamas

58RepWoods, Woodward
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Jack Harrison

59DemDewey, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Carl Robertson

60DemBeckham, Harmon
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Marvin McKee

61DemBeaver, Cimarron, Texas
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Don Davis

62DemComanche
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Gordon Beznoska

63DemComanche
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Jack Lindstrom

64DemComanche
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Fred Ferrell Jr.

65DemComanche
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|David Riggs

66DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Douglas Wixson

67RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Robert Hopkins

68DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Joe Musgrave

69RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Richard Hancock

70RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Warren Green

71RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|John W. McCune

72DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Ben Hill

73DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Jerry Hargrave

74DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Rodger Randle

75DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Stephen Wolfe

76RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|William Poulos

77DemTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Howard Williams

78RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Leslie Guy Ferguson

79RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Charles Ford

80RepTulsa
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|C. Spearman Jr.

81DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|T. W. 'Bill' Holaday

82RepOklahoma
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Kent Frates

83RepOklahoma
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Texanna Hatchett

84RepOklahoma
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|George Camp

85RepOklahoma
{{Party shading/Republican}}

|Thomas Taggart

86RepOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Sandy Sanders

87DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Red Andrews

88DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|L. Bengtson Jr.

89DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Thomas Bamberger

90DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Kenneth R. Nance

91DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Marvin York

92DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Don Kilpatrick

93DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Ray Trent

94DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|A.J. Clemons

95DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|John Miskelly

96DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Hannah Atkins

97DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Visanio John

98DemOklahoma
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

|Archibald Hill Jr.

99DemOklahoma

  • Table based on database of historic members.[http://www.okhouse.gov/Members/Historic.aspx Historic Members] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711202342/http://www.okhouse.gov/Members/Historic.aspx |date=2013-07-11 }}, Okhouse.gov (accessed July 10, 2013)

References

External links

  • [http://www.oksenate.gov Oklahoma Senate]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20130622043630/http://www.okhouse.gov/ Oklahoma House of Representatives]

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