lieutenant predecessor successor death_date birth_place religion party office birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name
cowboy pink williams johnston murray j. howard edmondson 11 december 1993 between madill and kingston , oklahoma baptist democratic party governor of oklahoma member of the oklahoma state senate 21 january 1908 15th january 10 , 1955 1941 raymond d. gary
 january 12 , 1959 1955 raymond d. gary
raymond d. gary

raymond dancel gary -lrb- january 21 , 1908 -- december 11 , 1993 -rrb- was the fifteenth governor of oklahoma and the first governor to be born in oklahoma since statehood .
born in southern oklahoma , he became a state senator in 1941 , until he assumed the office of governor in 1955 .
one of his accomplishments was to order the desegregation of the oklahoma state capitol restrooms .
one of his first actions was to order the `` whites only '' and `` colored only '' signs removed from the capitol 's restrooms .
he also declared his intent to make the state comply with the 1954 supreme court decision in brown v. board of education , which declared segregation in the public schools unconstitutional .
gary died december 11 , 1993 , and is interred at woodbury forest cemetery , madill , oklahoma .
