1. Page Henry Belcher was an American Republican politician and a US Representative from Oklahoma.
17 Facts About Page Belcher
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Page Belcher was educated at public schools in Jefferson, and Medford, Oklahoma.
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Page Belcher attended Friends University, a private non-denominational Christian university in Wichita, Kansas.
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Page Belcher served as a private in the Student Army Training Corps at the University of Oklahoma during World War I While in college he studied law and played for the 1918 Oklahoma Sooners football team.
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Page Belcher was admitted to the bar in 1936 and began a legal practice in Enid.
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Page Belcher served on the Enid Board of Education and as judge of Enid's municipal court.
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Page Belcher served as executive assistant to US Representative Ross Rizley during Rizley's first term in Congress and later managed several of Rizley's reelection campaigns.
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Page Belcher served as Republican chairman of the 8th congressional district, and was the executive secretary of the Oklahoma Republican Party.
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In 1950, Page Belcher was elected to Congress, where he served for two years as the last representative of Oklahoma's 8th congressional district before it was eliminated in congressional reapportionment.
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In Congress, Page Belcher was a member of the Agriculture Committee and its wheat subcommittee, eventually rising to ranking Republican on that committee.
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In 1971, Page Belcher was the sole Republican in the state's congressional delegation to vote for the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.
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Page Belcher usually had easy reelection campaigns because the Tulsa area was friendly to Republicans, but was nearly defeated in 1958 due to discontent over the Eisenhower administration's farm policy.
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Page Belcher faced another credible challenge in 1970, when former Johnson administration official James R Jones held him to only 55 percent of the vote.
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Page Belcher was married on June 16,1922, to Gladys Collins.
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Page Belcher was a Methodist, a Member of the Kiwanis, American Legion, and Odd Fellows.
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Page Belcher was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
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Page Belcher is buried at Memorial Park Cemetery, Enid, Oklahoma.