Tasker Oddie
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Tasker Lowndes Oddie (October 20, 1870–February 17, 1950) was a Governor of Nevada and a United States Senator.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, attended New York University Law School and came west to look after business interests of the wealthy Stokes family. He joined the Nevada Bar in 1898, and made his fortune in the 1900 silver boom in Tonopah, becoming manager of the Tonopah Mining Company.
He served as governor between 1911 and 1915 (as he was not married at the time, his mother Ellen Oddie and his sisters acted as official hostesses). On March 17, 1911 he signed the city charter for Las Vegas. He married Daisy Randal Mackeigan in 1918.
He was a Republican senator from 1921 to 1933, losing his bid for a third term to Pat McCarran.
He died in San Francisco and is buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Nevada.
[edit] Monuments and memorials
Mount Oddie near Tonopah is named after him, as is Oddie Boulevard in Reno and Sparks.
[edit] Reference
- Loren Chan, Sagebrush Statesman: Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada (University of Nevada Press, Reno, 1973)
| Preceded by Denver S. Dickerson |
Governor of Nevada 1911–1915 |
Succeeded by Emmet D. Boyle |
| Preceded by Charles B. Henderson |
United States Senator (Class 3) from Nevada 1921–1933 |
Succeeded by Patrick A. McCarran |
| Governors of Nevada |  |
|---|---|
| Blasdel • Bradley • Kinkead • Adams • Stevenson • Bell • Colcord • Jones • Sadler • Sparks • Dickerson • Oddie • Boyle • Scrugham • Balzar • Griswold • Kirman • Carville • Pittman • Russell • Sawyer • Laxalt • O'Callaghan • List • Bryan • Miller • Guinn • Gibbons |
