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{{ infobox officeholder
| name = Charles Clarence Childers
| birth_date = {{birth date|1872|9|1}}
| birth_place = [[Lawrence County, Arkansas]]
| office = [[Oklahoma Secretary of State]]
| term_start = January 1939
| term_end = January 1943
| predecessor = [[Frank C. Carter]]
| successor = Frank C. Carter
| office2 = [[Oklahoma State Auditor]]
| term_start2 = January 1943
| term_end2 = January 1947
| predecessor2 = Frank C. Carter
| successor2 = [[A. S. J. Shaw]]
| term_start3 = January 1935
| term_end3 = January 1939
| predecessor3 = Frank C. Carter
| successor3 = Frank C. Carter
| term_start4 = January 1923
| term_end4 = January 1927
| predecessor4 = Frank C. Carter
| successor4 = A. S. J. Shaw
| office5 = [[Oklahoma Corporation Commission]]er
| term_start5 = January 1929
| term_end5 = January 1933
| predecessor5 =
| successor5 = [[Jack C. Walton]]
| state_house6 = Oklahoma
| district6 = [[Garfield County, Oklahoma|Garfield County]]
| term_start6 = November 16, 1912
| term_end6 = November 16, 1916
| predecessor6 =
| successor6 =
}}
'''Charles Clarence Childers''' was an American politician who served in the [[Oklahoma House of Representatives]] representing [[Garfield County, Oklahoma|Garfield County]] and served three non-consecutive terms as the [[Oklahoma State Auditor]], one term as [[Oklahoma Secretary of State]], and one term on the [[Oklahoma Corporation Commission]].
He was first elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives between 1912 and 1916. He was the Oklahoma State Auditor from 1923 to 1927, 1935 to 1939, and 1943 to 1947. He also served as the Oklahoma Secretary of State between 1939 and 1943 and on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission between 1929 and 1933.
==Early life, family, and education==
Charles Clarence Childers was born in [[Lawrence County, Arkansas]], on September 1, 1872, to William Childers and Clara Wells. He attended public schools in Lawrence County before travelling to [[Memphis, Tennessee]], for high school. He attended the [[University of Arkansas]] until 1893, leaving his junior year. Upon returning to Lawrence County he was hired by his father, the county sheriff and tax collector, as a clerk. On November 3, 1893, he married Elizabeth Wells. He and Elizabeth were members of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church, South]].<ref name="Thoburn" />
He succeeded his father as sheriff and served two two-year terms. He then was elected county clerk for four years. In 1908, he moved to Oklahoma and settled near [[Billings, Oklahoma|Billings]].<ref name="Thoburn">{{cite book |last1=Thoburn |first1=Joseph Bradfield |title=A Standard History of Oklahoma: An Authentic Narrative of Its Development from the Date of the First European Exploration Down to the Present Time, Including Accounts of the Indian Tribes, Both Civilized and Wild, of the Cattle Range, of the Land Openings and the Achievements of the Most Recent Period |date=1916 |publisher=American Historical Society |pages=987-988 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=gfQ_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA984-IA6&hl=en |access-date=7 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
==Oklahoma politics==
He served in the [[4th Oklahoma Legislature|4th]] and [[5th Oklahoma Legislature]] representing [[Garfield County, Oklahoma|Garfield County]] in the [[Oklahoma House of Representatives]], winning election in 1912 and 1914. In his first term he was chairman of the Committee on Levees, Ditches, Drains, and Irrigation and he authored successful bills to replace [[executions]] by [[hanging]] with [[electric chair|electrocution]] and to allow farmers' mutual insurance companies.<ref name="Thoburn" />
In his second term he chaired the Committee on Insurance and authored a bill to allow provide public schools with free textbooks alongside Senator [[William A. Chase]]. He also worked on bills to establish a minimum wage for women, increase the duties of the [[Treasurer of Oklahoma]], enable district attorneys to adjust probate matters, created hospitals for railroad workers, and a pension for the widows of men killed in a 1914 prison riot at the [[Oklahoma State Penitentiary]].<ref name="Thoburn" />
Later as [[Oklahoma State Auditor]] he testified against [[Jack C. Walton]] during his impeachment trial. Walton later defeated Childers, who was the incumbent, in 1932 in the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]'s primary for [[Oklahoma Corporation Commission]]er.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=LeRoy Henry |title=Oklahoma's Governors, 1907-1929: Turbulent Politics |date=1981 |location=[[Oklahoma City]] |page=141 |url=https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc862886/m1/153/ |access-date=7 May 2024}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Arkansas sheriffs]]
[[Category:Corporation Commissioners of Oklahoma]]
[[Category:County clerks in Arkansas]]
[[Category
emocratic Party members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives]]
[[Categoryeople from Lawrence County, Arkansas]]
[[Category:State Auditors of Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Secretaries of State of Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Southern Methodists]]
[[Category:Year of death missing]]
Okumaya devam et...
{{ infobox officeholder
| name = Charles Clarence Childers
| birth_date = {{birth date|1872|9|1}}
| birth_place = [[Lawrence County, Arkansas]]
| office = [[Oklahoma Secretary of State]]
| term_start = January 1939
| term_end = January 1943
| predecessor = [[Frank C. Carter]]
| successor = Frank C. Carter
| office2 = [[Oklahoma State Auditor]]
| term_start2 = January 1943
| term_end2 = January 1947
| predecessor2 = Frank C. Carter
| successor2 = [[A. S. J. Shaw]]
| term_start3 = January 1935
| term_end3 = January 1939
| predecessor3 = Frank C. Carter
| successor3 = Frank C. Carter
| term_start4 = January 1923
| term_end4 = January 1927
| predecessor4 = Frank C. Carter
| successor4 = A. S. J. Shaw
| office5 = [[Oklahoma Corporation Commission]]er
| term_start5 = January 1929
| term_end5 = January 1933
| predecessor5 =
| successor5 = [[Jack C. Walton]]
| state_house6 = Oklahoma
| district6 = [[Garfield County, Oklahoma|Garfield County]]
| term_start6 = November 16, 1912
| term_end6 = November 16, 1916
| predecessor6 =
| successor6 =
}}
'''Charles Clarence Childers''' was an American politician who served in the [[Oklahoma House of Representatives]] representing [[Garfield County, Oklahoma|Garfield County]] and served three non-consecutive terms as the [[Oklahoma State Auditor]], one term as [[Oklahoma Secretary of State]], and one term on the [[Oklahoma Corporation Commission]].
He was first elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives between 1912 and 1916. He was the Oklahoma State Auditor from 1923 to 1927, 1935 to 1939, and 1943 to 1947. He also served as the Oklahoma Secretary of State between 1939 and 1943 and on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission between 1929 and 1933.
==Early life, family, and education==
Charles Clarence Childers was born in [[Lawrence County, Arkansas]], on September 1, 1872, to William Childers and Clara Wells. He attended public schools in Lawrence County before travelling to [[Memphis, Tennessee]], for high school. He attended the [[University of Arkansas]] until 1893, leaving his junior year. Upon returning to Lawrence County he was hired by his father, the county sheriff and tax collector, as a clerk. On November 3, 1893, he married Elizabeth Wells. He and Elizabeth were members of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church, South]].<ref name="Thoburn" />
He succeeded his father as sheriff and served two two-year terms. He then was elected county clerk for four years. In 1908, he moved to Oklahoma and settled near [[Billings, Oklahoma|Billings]].<ref name="Thoburn">{{cite book |last1=Thoburn |first1=Joseph Bradfield |title=A Standard History of Oklahoma: An Authentic Narrative of Its Development from the Date of the First European Exploration Down to the Present Time, Including Accounts of the Indian Tribes, Both Civilized and Wild, of the Cattle Range, of the Land Openings and the Achievements of the Most Recent Period |date=1916 |publisher=American Historical Society |pages=987-988 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=gfQ_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA984-IA6&hl=en |access-date=7 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
==Oklahoma politics==
He served in the [[4th Oklahoma Legislature|4th]] and [[5th Oklahoma Legislature]] representing [[Garfield County, Oklahoma|Garfield County]] in the [[Oklahoma House of Representatives]], winning election in 1912 and 1914. In his first term he was chairman of the Committee on Levees, Ditches, Drains, and Irrigation and he authored successful bills to replace [[executions]] by [[hanging]] with [[electric chair|electrocution]] and to allow farmers' mutual insurance companies.<ref name="Thoburn" />
In his second term he chaired the Committee on Insurance and authored a bill to allow provide public schools with free textbooks alongside Senator [[William A. Chase]]. He also worked on bills to establish a minimum wage for women, increase the duties of the [[Treasurer of Oklahoma]], enable district attorneys to adjust probate matters, created hospitals for railroad workers, and a pension for the widows of men killed in a 1914 prison riot at the [[Oklahoma State Penitentiary]].<ref name="Thoburn" />
Later as [[Oklahoma State Auditor]] he testified against [[Jack C. Walton]] during his impeachment trial. Walton later defeated Childers, who was the incumbent, in 1932 in the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]'s primary for [[Oklahoma Corporation Commission]]er.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=LeRoy Henry |title=Oklahoma's Governors, 1907-1929: Turbulent Politics |date=1981 |location=[[Oklahoma City]] |page=141 |url=https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc862886/m1/153/ |access-date=7 May 2024}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Childers, Charles}}
[[Category:1872 births]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives]]
[[Category:Arkansas sheriffs]]
[[Category:Corporation Commissioners of Oklahoma]]
[[Category:County clerks in Arkansas]]
[[Category
emocratic Party members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives]][[Category
eople from Lawrence County, Arkansas]][[Category:State Auditors of Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Secretaries of State of Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Southern Methodists]]
[[Category:Year of death missing]]
Okumaya devam et...