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P. J. Yeager

American politician (born 1859)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ124612069 ↗
Source-derived summary

P. J. Yeager was an American politician who served in the Oklahoma Senate from statehood in 1907 until 1911.

Biography

P. J. Yeager was born in Columbus, Ohio on April 10, 1859. He moved to Guthrie, Illinois at age 20 and opened a general store. In 1895, he moved to Arkansas and he moved again in 1902 to Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation. In 1904, his family settled in Tulsa where he was elected as an alderman in 1906. He was elected to the 1st Oklahoma Legislature as a member of the Democratic Party representing Tulsa County in the Oklahoma Senate from 1907 until 1911. He ran for Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma in the 1910 Oklahoma elections.

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“P. J. Yeager” enters the record as american politician (born 1859). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yeager, American and politician can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1907, 1911, 1859, 1895—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1859-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yeager, American and politician.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124612069. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1907, 1911, 1859 and 1895.

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This entry incorporates text from “P. J. Yeager” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.