Forty Years a Legislator - 9780806194936

Forty Years a LegislatorAuthor(s): Elmer Thomas, Richard Lowitt, Carolyn G. Hanneman, Cindy Simon Rosenthal\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806194936, 978-0806194936\nSynopsis\nElmer Thomas [tel] represented the people of Oklahoma in the states first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the [url] Senate in 1951 but never before published, chronicles his long career and offers a wealth of information on people and events that helped shape the development of the state and the course of American history. Thomas became one of Oklahomas first state senators in 1907 and was involved with financing the construction of public works. As a member of the [url] Congress, he made it his business to understand the Federal Reserve System, and as the farm crisis of the 1920s worsened during the Great Depression, he consistently argued for inflating the currency to stimu.