Violet McDougal
{{Short description|American poet (1893–1989)}}
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|name=Violet McDougal
|birth_date={{birth year|1893}}
|birth_place=Tennessee, U.S.
|death_date={{death year and age|1989|1893}}
|occupation=Poet
|nationality=American
|alma_mater=University of Oklahoma
University of Missouri
Columbia University
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Violet McDougal (1893–1989) was an American poet. She was the first poet laureate of the state of Oklahoma, serving from 1923 to 1931.{{Cite book|title=The Oklahoma Poets Laureate: A Sourcebook, History, and Anthology|last=Holliday|first=Shawn|publisher=Mongrel Empire Press|year=2015|isbn=9780990320432|location=Norman, OK|pages=21–22}}
Biography
McDougal was born in Tennessee, 1893.{{cite book|last1=Goins|first1=Charles Robert|last2=Goble|first2=Danney|last3=Anderson|first3=James H.|title=Historical Atlas of Oklahoma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dCWjHf71PFgC&pg=PA233|year=2006|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3483-3|pages=233–}} She attended the University of Oklahoma, the University of Missouri, and Columbia University. She went on to publish poems in The New York Times as well as in The Daily Oklahoman. McDougal was appointed by Governor Jack C. Walton in 1923.
Her book, Wandering Fires: Poems (with her sister, Mary McDougal) was published in Boston by Stratford, in 1925. McDougal died in 1989.
See also
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