13 Notable alumni of
Bacone College
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Bacone College is 2795th in the world, 952nd in North America, and 899th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Bacone College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Joe Medicine Crow
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- writerhistoriannon-fiction writeranthropologistauthor
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Joseph Medicine Crow was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Tribe. His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered seminal works, but he is best known for his writings and lectures concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn of 1876.
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Tim Hill
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- baseball player
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Timothy Hill is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres, and Chicago White Sox. Hill was selected by the Royals in the 32nd round of the 2014 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut in 2018.
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Patrick J. Hurley
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- diplomatpolitician
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Patrick Jay Hurley was an American attorney, Republican Party politician, military officer, and diplomat. He was the 51st United States Secretary of War from 1929 to 1933 in the cabinet of Herbert Hoover and a key American diplomat during World War II. As ambassador to China in 1944 and 1945, Hurley is remembered for his instrumental role in the recall of General Joseph Stilwell in favor of Albert Coady Wedemeyer, his advocacy for a rollback strategy in China, and his public criticism of State Department policy at the onset of the Second Red Scare. He was the first Oklahoman to serve in a presidential cabinet.
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Acee Blue Eagle
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- painter
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Acee Blue Eagle was a Native American artist, educator, dancer, and Native American flute player, who directed the art program at Bacone College. His birth name was Alexander C. McIntosh, he also went by Chebon Ahbulah (Laughing Boy), and Lumhee Holot-Tee (Blue Eagle), and was an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
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Alexander Posey
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- poetpoliticianjournalist
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Alexander Lawrence Posey was a Native American poet, humorist, journalist, and politician in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. He founded the Eufaula Indian Journal in 1901, the first Native American daily newspaper. For several years he published editorial letters known as the Fus Fixico Letters, written by a fictional figure who commented pointedly about Muscogee Nation, Indian Territory, and United States politics during the period of the dissolution of tribal governments and communal lands. He served as secretary to the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention and drafted much of the constitution for its proposed Native American state, but Congress rejected the proposal. Posey died young from drowning while trying to cross the flooding North Canadian River in Oklahoma.
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Jack C. Montgomery
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- military personnel
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Jack Cleveland Montgomery was a United States Army officer, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
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Enoch Kelly Haney
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- Christian ministerpainterpolitician
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Enoch Kelly Haney was an American politician and internationally recognized Seminole/Muscogee artist from Oklahoma, He served as principal chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma from 2005 until 2009 and previously served as a member of both houses of the Oklahoma Legislature. He created a bronze statue that sits atop the Oklahoma State Capitol, called The Guardian. Another statue he created is located at the Chickasaw Nation headquarters in Ada, Oklahoma.
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Willard Stone
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- wood carver
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Willard Stone was an American artist from Oklahoma best known for his wood sculptures carved in a flowing Art Deco style.
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Virginia Stroud
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- painter
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Virginia Alice Stroud Native American painter from Oklahoma. She was an enrolled citizen of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and a Muscogee descendant.
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Joan Hill
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- painter
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Joan Hill, also known as Che-se-quah, was a Muscogee Creek artist of Cherokee ancestry. She was one of the most awarded Native American women artists in the 20th century.
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Ruthe Blalock Jones
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- teacherpainter
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Ruthe Blalock Jones is a Delaware-Shawnee-Peoria painter and printmaker from Oklahoma.
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Franklin Gritts
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- painter
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Franklin Gritts was a Keetoowah Cherokee artist, teacher and art director. Gritts' is best known for his contributions to the "Golden Era" of Native American art, both as a teacher and an artist. During World War II, he served on the USS Franklin (CV-13), the most damaged ship in the history of the U.S. Navy to return to port. He survived a devastating attack on March 19, 1945, but suffered injuries, earning the Purple Heart. Gritts' later worked as the art director for the Sporting News.
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Louis Oliver
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- poet
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Louis Oliver, also known as Little Coon or Wotkoce Okisce, was a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and an American poet. His poetry combines themes of Muscogee oral history with an examination of intellectualism in the context of the Muscogee Nation.
