David was born in Washington, D.c', April 21, 1941, the son of Lyle H. and Christine McKown Boren. He graduated from Summa Cum Laude, receiving a B.A. degree in 1963, graduated with honors with a M.A. degree from Oxford University, England in 1965, and received his J.D. degree in 1968 from the University of where he was Class President of the College of Law. He was an outstanding law graduate and scholar and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. In addition to his profession as an attorney, he was Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences and professor of political science at Oklahoma Baptist University. He was Company Commander, Oklahoma Army National Guard. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1967 and served until his election as Governor in November, 1974. He was inaugurated on January 13, 1975. He is the father of two children, Carrie Christine and David Daniel. The governor made his home at Seminole before moving into the Governor's Mansion. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978, and elected to successive terms through 1990.

George Patterson Nigh was born in McAlester, Oklahoma on June 9. 1927. son of Wilbur R. and Irene Crockett Nigh. He attended public schools in McAlester and Eastern Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College at Wilburton. Oklahoma. From June 1945 through September 1946. he served in the U.S. Navy. He was granted a Bachelor of Arts degree from East Central State College. Ada. Oklahoma in 1950. From 1952 to 1958. he taught at McAlester High School. George Nigb served in the House of Representatives from the Twenty-third through the Twenty-sixth Oklaho­ ma Legislatures. He was elected Lieutenant Governor. the youngest in the State's history in 1958. In 1963. Nigh became the 17tb Governor of Okla­ homa. filling an unexpired 9-day term following the resignation of Governor J. Howard Edmondson. He was elected Lieutenant Governor again in 1966. 1970 and 1974. On November 7. 1978. he was elected as the 22nd . On January 3. 1979. Nigh became the 22nd Governor of Oklahoma serving five days to fill an unexpired term following the resig­ nation of Governor . On January 8. 1979. he began his term as Governor of Oklahoma. to which he was elected in the fall of 1978. He was re-elected in 1982.

Henry Louis Bellmon was elected the first Republican Governor of the State of Oklahoma in November of 1962 and then was elected November 4, 1986 to his second term as Governor of Oklahoma. Bellmon is the second governor ever to be elected to that office. then elected U.S. Senator and then Governor again. He chose not to run in 1990.

David Walters was born November 20,1951, near Canute, Oklahoma in Washita County. He graduated from Canute High School in 1969. He graduated from the in 1973, with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering. In 1977, he earned a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University. Walters began his professional career at the University of Oklahoma. He left there in 1975 as a manage­ ment systems and projects administrator in order to pursue his graduate degree. Walters served in former Governor David Boren's admin'istration and later at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center where he served as an assistant provost from 1977 to 1980, and as an associate provost from 1980 to 1982. Walters joined the Burks Group, a commercial real estate company, as president in 1982, and, in 1985, the American Fidelity Property Company. Throughout his career, he has been an active member of his community and state. He served on the Commission for the Oklahoma State Department of Human Services in 1983, and was appointed co-chairman of the Governor's 100-memher Commission on Government Reform in 1984. On November 6, 1990. Walters was elected to serve as the twenty-fourth Governor of Oklahoma. 596