Charles Nathaniel Haskell (March 13, 1860 – July 5, 1933) was an American lawyer, oilman, and statesman who served as the first Governor of Oklahoma. Haskell played a crucial role in drafting the Oklahoma Constitution as well as Oklahoma's statehood and admission into the United States as the 46th state in 1907. Haskell is also remembered as a prominent resident of Muskogee, Oklahoma and helped to bring the city to prominence throughout Oklahoma....
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Charles Nathaniel Haskell (March 13, 1860 – July 5, 1933) was an American lawyer, oilman, and statesman who served as the first Governor of Oklahoma. Haskell played a crucial role in drafting the Oklahoma Constitution as well as Oklahoma's statehood and admission into the United States as the 46th state in 1907. Haskell is also remembered as a prominent resident of Muskogee, Oklahoma and helped to bring the city to prominence throughout Oklahoma.
Born near Leipsic, Ohio in 1860, Haskell was the son of a cooper who died when Haskell was only three years old. This forced Haskell to grow up fast and accept a life of hard work to attain all that he had. At the age of ten, he was hired by a farmer named Miller from Putnam County, Ohio as a farm boy where he remained for eight years as he grew into adulthood. Though Mr. Miller was a school teacher, and a young Haskell had to work for all he had, he was left little time to attend school regularly, though Mrs. Miller taught him at home. None...
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