2007 Susan Powell (born 1959), Miss America 1981 Norma Smallwood (Cherokee, 1909–1966), Miss America 1926, first Miss America of Native American heritage Shawntel Smith (born 1971), Miss America 1996 Military and political figures Carl Albert (1908–2000), Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977; born in McAlester, reared in Bugtussle, Oklahoma Bob Ballinger (born 1974), Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives; reared in Tulsa Dewey F. Bartlett, Sr. (1919–1979), Oklahoma Governor and U.S. Senator Dan Boren (born 1973), represents Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House David Boren (born 1941), former Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator and University of Oklahoma president Donna Campbell (born 1954), physician and member of the Texas Senate; reared in Oklahoma Joseph J. Clark (Cherokee, 1893–1971), Admiral U.S. Navy and first Native American to graduate from the United States Naval Academy William J. Crowe (1925–2007), Admiral U.S. Navy and former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Drew Edmondson (born 1946), state Attorney General General Tommy Franks (born 1945), Commander of US Central Command, US Invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq Bo Gritz (born 1939), most decorated Green Beret officer during the Vietnam War Enoch Kelly Haney (Seminole, born 1940), Senator State of Oklahoma, campaign manager for George Nigh during his first successful bid for Governor, Principal Chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, artist, sculptor, historian, businessman Patrick J. Hurley (1883–1963), U.S. Secretary of War under President Herbert Hoover Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926–2006), U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations William Flynn Martin (born 1950), Deputy Secretary of Energy and Executive Secretary of the United States National Security Council Perle Mesta (1889–1975), political hostess, U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg A. S. Mike Monroney (1902–1980), U.S. Senator, sponsor of the Automobile Information Disclosure Act of 1958 Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003), U.S. Senator, ambassador to India, Ambassador to the United Nations Donald Lee "Don" Nickles (born 1948), U.S. Senator from Oklahoma 1981–2005 George Nigh (born 1927), two-time Governor of Oklahoma Tony Perkins (born 1963), director of the Family Research Council and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives Riley L. Pitts (1937–1967), U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient Dennis Reimer (born 1939), four-star General, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Alice Mary Robertson (1854–1931), educator, social worker, government official, and politician Apollo Soucek (1897–1955), test pilot and Vice Admiral, U. S. Navy, born in Medford, Oklahoma Gene Stipe (1926–2012), longest-serving member