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Governor Robert L. Williams, standing in the first row without a uniform, and his staff
including S. R. "Buck" Lewis, standing to Governor Williams's left as indicated by the
arrow, 1915 (6469, Oklahoma Historical Society Photograph Collection, OHS).
in March 1917.35 While he was a Republican, Williams appears to have
been fond of him.36 By war's end, however, both his political and news-
paper careers in Oklahoma would be at an end.
4. H. C. "Harry" Tyrrell. Born and raised in Iowa, Tyrrell was an
oilman and president of the Tulsa Young Men's Christian Association,
then a politically influential organization. He became vice chair of the
Tulsa Council. He had been head of a law and order league that folded
into McFarlin's Committee of 100. Since late 1916 Tyrrell dominat-
ed Tulsa law enforcement through a younger associate named H. H.
Townsend. Under Tyrrell's influence, Townsend not only became as-
sistant chief of police, to whom the real chief was subservient, but he
also became the Tulsa County sheriffs "right hand deputy."37 In late
March 1917, Townsend became security chief at Carter Oil Company,
the largest Standard Oil subsidiary in Oklahoma.38
5. Lilah Lindsey. Born and raised in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation,
Indian Territory, Lindsey was head of the Tulsa Women's Christian
Temperance Union and president of the state's Homemakers Society.

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