James B. A. Robertson

James Brooks Ayers Robertson , sometimes called J. B. A. Robertson, was an American lawyer, judge and the fourth governor of Oklahoma. Robertson was appointed by the states first governor, Charles N. Haskell to serve as a district judge.

James Brooks Ayers Robertson was born in Keokuk County, Iowa, on March 15, 1871, to a father of the same name from Pennsylvania and Clara Robertson from Ohio. In the early 1850s, both of Robertsons parents moved to Iowa, where Robertsons father served as a volunteer soldier in the Union army during the American Civil War. Robertsons Iowa upbringing would instill in him firm progressive attitudes.

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