lieutenant death_date birth_date term_end death_place preceded term_start order image succeeded predecessor birth_place jr/sr party office state successor religion article_title birth_name
george nigh 17 november 1971 27 september 1925 november 3 , 1964 january 6 , 1963 edmond , oklahoma robert s. kerr january 7 , 1963 january 12 , 1959 16th jhedmondson.jpg fred r. harris raymond d. gary muskogee , oklahoma united states senator democrat governor of oklahoma oklahoma george nigh presbyterianism j. howard edmondson
 james howard edmondson
j. howard edmondson

james howard edmondson -lrb- september 27 , 1925november 17 , 1971 -rrb- was an american politician from the u.s. state of oklahoma .
he served as the 16th governor of oklahoma from 1959 to 1963 , and a united states senator from oklahoma from 1963 to 1964 .
elected at the age of 33 , edmondson still remains the youngest governor in the history of the state .
prior to serving as governor , edmondson practiced law in muskogee , oklahoma , worked as the chief prosecutor of the tulsa county attorney , and successfully campaigned to become the county attorney in 1954 and 1956 .
