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    McAlester is the county seat of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. The population was 18,363 at the time of the 2010 census, a 3.4 percent increase from 17,783...
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    county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 43,773. Its county seat is McAlester. The county was formed from part...
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    The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, nicknamed "Big Mac", is a prison of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections located in McAlester, Oklahoma, on 1,556 acres...
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  • McAlester may refer to: McAlester, Oklahoma, an American city in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma Charles Godfrey McAlester (1765–1847) J. J. McAlester (1842–1920)...
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  • McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (MCAAP) is a weapons manufacturing facility for the United States Department of Defense in McAlester, Oklahoma, US. The...
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    McEntire has been featured as a coach on The Voice. McEntire was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, in 1955 but was raised on a ranch in Chockie, Oklahoma....
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    members of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commission (1907–1911) and the second lieutenant governor of Oklahoma from 1911 to 1915. McAlester was born in Sebastian...
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    Walters grew up in McAlester, Oklahoma and attended Harding University before returning to teach at McAlester High School. He was a McAlester Teacher of the...
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  • The McAlester Rockets were a minor league baseball team based in McAlester, Oklahoma. Between 1907 and 1926, previous McAlester teams played as members...
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    Carl Albert (category People from McAlester, Oklahoma)
    office of any Oklahoman in American history. Albert was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, the son of Leona Ann (Scott) and Ernest Homer Albert, a coal miner...
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    the musical Oklahoma! Ridge Bond, native of McAlester, Oklahoma, starred in the Broadway and International touring productions of Oklahoma!, playing the...
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  • asked to make an address before South McAlester Chapter #149, Order of the Eastern Star, in McAlester, Oklahoma. As the Order of DeMolay had come under...
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    Lynn Cartwright (category People from McAlester, Oklahoma)
    in the 1992 film A League of Their Own. Cartwright was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, the daughter of U.S. Congressman Wilburn Cartwright and his wife...
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    Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (C O & G) laid a line through the Choctaw Nation between McAlester (then in Indian Territory) and Oklahoma City (then...
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    The Aldridge Hotel, an 11-story hotel on U.S. 270 in McAlester, Oklahoma completed in 1930. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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  • District". The McAlester Capital. 11 June 1903. Retrieved 20 April 2024. "First Death Sentences Ever Passed in Central District". The McAlester Capital. 11...
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    Since 2003, 15 MOABs have been manufactured at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in McAlester, Oklahoma. The Air Force has said the MOAB has a unit price...
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  • Nannie Doss (category Deaths from cancer in Oklahoma)
    the hospital ward of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in 1965. She is buried at Oak Hill Memorial Park in McAlester, Oklahoma. List of serial killers in...
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  • The Warden's House at Penitentiary Blvd and West St. in McAlester, Oklahoma was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It was designed...
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    W. H. H. Clayton (category People from McAlester, Oklahoma)
    and his family lived in this house until he left Fort Smith for McAlester, Oklahoma in 1897 and owned it until 1912. The "Clayton House" has been restored...
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  • Steven W. Taylor (category People from McAlester, Oklahoma)
    1949) is a former Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. He is a former mayor of McAlester, Oklahoma. As a state district court judge, Taylor...
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    Boz Scaggs (category People from McAlester, Oklahoma)
    in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Their family moved to McAlester, Oklahoma, then to Plano, Texas (at that time a farm town), just north of Dallas...
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    Highway in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It extends the corridor formed by U.S. Route 75 in Texas, from Dallas northeast via McAlester and Muskogee to the Will...
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    1992. McKinsey was born Beverlee Magruder in McAlester, Oklahoma, on August 9, 1935. She was the daughter of Warren and Jewell Magruder of McAlester.[citation...
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    George Nigh (category People from McAlester, Oklahoma)
    American governor, having first served as governor of Oklahoma in 1963. Nigh was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, and was the son of Wilbur R. and Irene Crockett...
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    of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. It travels through the cities of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and McAlester, Oklahoma. US 270 begins...
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    Anne Bremner (category People from McAlester, Oklahoma)
    spokesperson for the Friends of Amanda Knox. Bremner was born in McAlester, Oklahoma. Bremner attended Stanford University, where she studied medieval...
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  • Michael Wilson (writer) (category People from McAlester, Oklahoma)
    American screenwriter. Wilson was born and raised Roman Catholic in McAlester, Oklahoma. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in philosophy...
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  • The McAlester Public School District is a school district that competes and is classified as a 5A school district in McAlester, Oklahoma, United States...
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  • John Berryman (category People from McAlester, Oklahoma)
    The Dream Songs. John Berryman was born on October 25, 1914, in McAlester, Oklahoma, where he was raised until the age of ten, when his father, John...
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