Tom D. McKeown
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Thomas Deitz Mckeown (June 4, 1878 - October 22, 1951) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Born in Blackstock, South Carolina, Mckeown attended the common schools, studied under a private tutor and attended lectures at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1898. He was admitted to the bar in 1899 and began practice in Malvern, Arkansas. He moved to Ada, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in 1901 and resumed the practice of law. He was appointed a member of the first State bar commission and elected president in 1909. He served as judge of the seventh district of Oklahoma 1910-1914. Presiding judge of the fifth division of the supreme court commission in 1915 and 1916.
Mckeown was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1921). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.
Mckeown was elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934 because he suffered a torn achilles tendon during a pickup basketball game. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, and resumed the practice of law in 1935 and 1936. He returned to Ada, Oklahoma, in 1937 and engaged in farming and oil production. He served as delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1942. County attorney of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, from April 1, 1946, to January 1, 1947. He was appointed county judge in 1947 and elected in 1948 and again in 1950 and served until his death in Ada, Oklahoma, October 22, 1951. He was interred in Rosedale Cemetery.
