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THE

OKLAHOMA LAW

JOURNAL

A MAGAZINE OF INTEREST TO LAWYERS, LAW-MAKERS, LITIGANTS AND LAW LEARNERS

Vol. XIV

Oklahoma City, December, 1915

No. 5

Published Monthly by the WARDEN COMPANY

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA

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JUDGE CHARLES M. THACKER, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OKLAHOMA SUPREME COURT

Charles M. Thacker was born on January 17th, 1866 and raised on his father's farm near Forrest Hill in Brunswick County, Virginia. At the age of 19 years he went to Ennis, Texas, where, after studying bookkeeping, he studied law, paying his own way by office work. On June 20th, 1888, he was admitted to the bar by the District Court at Dallas, Texas, and on September 1st next thereafter, commenced the practice of his profession at Garland, Texas. On April 20th, 1889, he located at Mangum in Greer County (then Texas) in the practice of his profession. In August of that year he was appointed County Attorney and served until after the next ensuing election, when, as he did not want the office longer, his law partner succeeded him without opposition. On February 8th, 1892, he was appointed County Judge of that county which was under Texas jurisdiction and served as such and as ex-officio superintendent of schools and chairman of Board of County Commissioners until after the next ensuing election, when he voluntarily retired therefrom to engage in the practice of his profession. Greer County was then a sparsely settled frontier county and in 1891 he found time to edit a newspaper in addition to his law practice. In 1898 he was elected to the council (upper house) of the Territorial Legislature from the big district composed of Beaver, Woodward, Day, (now mostly in Ellis), D, (now Dewey, as the result of a bill he introduced and passed in the Assembly of 1889), Custer, Washita, Roger Mills, and Greer Counties, as those counties then existed, voluntarily retiring at the expiration of his term. In 1900 he was elected County Attorney of Greer County and, by successive elections was continued in that office until statehood, when he voluntarily retired to the practice of his profession. In 1909 he was elected Mayor of Mangum, his home city, and served until after the ensuing election in 1910, when he voluntarily retired from that office. In March, 1913, he was, by the Supreme Court of this state, appointed a member from the state at large, to the Supreme Court Commission, to which position, he was reappointed by the Supreme Court on September 1st, 1913, and by Governor Williams on April 1st, 1915. He was appointed to his present position as an Associate Justice on the bench of the Supreme Court of this state to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice G. A. Brown.

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