Owen, Robert Latham, Secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus (1907-1911); United States Senator from Oklahoma (1907-1925); United States Indian Agent for the Five Civilized Tribes (1885-1889), 1856-1947

Biographical:

Robert L. Owen was born in 1856 at Lynchburg, Virginia, of Scotch-Irish and Indian ancestry. Educated in the private schools of Lynchburg, he attended Washington and Lee University where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1877. Soon afterwards, he moved to the Cherokee Nation where he practiced law, taught school, and served as secretary of the Board of Education of the Cherokee Nation. In 1885, Owen was appointed agent for the Five Civilized Tribes and functioned in that position until 1887. Owen served as the attorney for the Choctaws beginning in 1890 and later in the same capacity for the Western and Eastern Cherokees. He organized the First National Bank of Indian Territory at Muskogee in 1890 and acted as its president until 1900. Owen was elected to the United States Senate from the state of Oklahoma in December 1907 and was reelected in 1912 and in 1918. In 1920, Owen's name was submitted as a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. In the end, he ranked fourth among the candidates but declined the nomination for vice president. As a senator, Owen was the drafter of the Federal Reserve Act and the Farm Loan Act. Child labor laws were another of his interests. Owen retired from the U.S. Senate in 1925. After his retirement, Owen engaged in activities which promoted the interests of Indians, both in the field of legislation and in the courts. He maintained his interest in world affairs and international law and became involved in a goal to enable people all over the world to speak together in a phonetic global alphabet. His later years were spent pursuing this project. Senator Owen died in Washington, D.C., on July 19, 1947.

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

An Adventure in Constructive Finance, by Carter Glass. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, and Company

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Identifier: CAC_CC_043_1_1_7_1

Dates: 70th (1927-1929)

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections

Author of the Federal Reserve The Charleston Gazette

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Identifier: CAC_CC_043_1_1_7_18

Dates: 75th (1937-1939)

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections

Banking Act of 1935. Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, 74th Congress, 1st Session on H.R. 5357

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Identifier: CAC_CC_043_1_1_7_5

Dates: 74th (1935-1937)

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections

Bond Buying by U.S. Urged to Peg Money New York Evening Post

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Identifier: CAC_CC_043_1_1_7_14

Dates: 73rd (1933-1935)

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. XXV, No. 3

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Identifier: CAC_CC_043_1_1_7_4

Dates: 80th (1947-1949)

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections

Cloture in the Senate and Other Speeches by Honorable Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma

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Identifier: CAC_CC_043_1_4_0000_4

Dates: Majority of material found within 60th (1907-1909); 61st (1909-1911); 62nd (1911-1913); 63rd (1913-1915)

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections

Comment on the Federal Reserve Five Point Program

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Identifier: CAC_CC_043_1_1_6_15

Dates: 63rd (1913-1915); 64th (1915-1917); 65th (1917-1919); 66th (1919-1921); 67th (1921-1923); 68th (1923-1925); 69th (1925-1927); 70th (1927-1929); 71st (1929-1931); 72nd (1931-1933); 73rd (1933-1935); 74th (1935-1937); 75th (1937-1939); 76th (1939-1941); 77th (1941-1943); 78th (1943-1945); 79th (1945-1947)

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections

Constitutional Money Advocate, Vol. 1, No. 6

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Identifier: CAC_CC_043_1_1_6_6

Dates: 76th (1939-1941)

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections