Nellie Davis Ross was an American educator and politician who served as the 14th governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and as the 28th and first female director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953. She was the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming. She was a Democrat and supported Prohibition. She ran for re-election but refused to campaign herself.
John Calloway Walton was an American politician and the 5th Governor of Oklahoma, serving the shortest tenure. He was impeached and removed from office shortly into his first term. A populist member of the Democratic Party, Walton previously served as the 18th Mayor of Oklahoma City between 1919 and 1923.
Sydney Charles Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, was a radical British Liberal politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also served as the second Governor-General of South Africa from 1914 to 1920.
Geoffrey Scott was an English scholar and poet, known as a historian of architecture. His biography of Isabelle de Charrière entitled The Portrait of Zelide won the 1925 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
James Brooks Ayres Robertson, sometimes called J. B. A. Robertson, was an American lawyer, judge and the fourth governor of Oklahoma. Robertson was appointed by the state's first governor, Charles N. Haskell, to serve as a district judge.
Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the earliest known source of the phrase "the butler did it", in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work and the plot device had been used prior to that time. She also worked to tell the stories and experiences of front line soldiers during World War I, one of the first women to travel to the Belgian front lines.
Violet Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever DStJ, styled Lady Charles Fitzmaurice between 1909 and 1914 and Lady Charles Mercer Nairne between 1914 and 1918, was an English aristocrat.
Katherine Agnew MacDonald was an American stage and film actress, film producer, and model. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was the older sister of actresses Miriam MacDonald and Mary MacLaren.
David Powell was a Scottish stage and later film actor of the silent era.
Kate Lester was an American theatrical and silent film actress. Her family, the Suydams of New York, were staying in Britain at the time of her birth.
Mabel Van Buren was an American stage and screen actress.
Isobel Elsom was an English film, theatre, and television actress. She was often cast as aristocrats or upper-class women.
Agnes Christine Johnston was an American screenwriter who wrote for more than 80 films between 1915 and 1948.
Thomas Atholl Robertson was a Scottish fine arts printer and publisher and Liberal politician.
Aloysius Larch-Miller was a suffragette and women's rights advocate from Oklahoma. She was most known for a debate speech made days before her death which resulted in passage of a proposal to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. She was posthumously inducted into the inaugural group of women honored by the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.
Ellen Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde was an American heiress and British peeress who was the daughter of General Anson Stager. She married Lord Arthur Butler, younger brother of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde, who became the 4th Marquess of Ormonde of Ormonde in 1919. Ellen held the title Marchioness of Ormonde from 1919 until her husband's death in 1943. She was the mother of George Butler, 5th Marquess of Ormonde and Arthur Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde.
Jeanette Bartleson Edmondson was an American politician and former First lady of Oklahoma who served as the 22nd Secretary of State of Oklahoma as a member of the Democratic party from 18 January 1979 to 8 October 1987.
Brigadier-General Lord Esmé Charles Gordon-Lennox was a British Army officer and public official.
Sallie Lewis Stephens Sturgeon was an American journalist, public health inspector, and social worker. She was the first woman in the U.S. to serve as a state health inspector. In 1908, Sturgeon founded The Oklahoma Lady, the state's first magazine for women, and later played a role in improving public sanitation in Oklahoma during her tenure with the State Health Department.
Madeleine Orrick Walton was an American woman who served as the third first lady of Oklahoma in 1923 during the tenure of her husband John C. Walton.
