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ROBERT F. BLAIR
Vol. 3, p. 1333
Book has photo

A member of the Wagoner bar since 1902, Robert F. BLAIR has become
known in this city as an attorney of broad legal information engaged
in the successful handling of involved and important litigation. Mr.
Blair is a native son of Tennessee, born at Sevierville in that
state, and reared on a farm. His parents were Robert H. and Harriet
(MILLS) Blair, the former a member of a family of English origin,
which removed from Virginia to Tennessee soon after the Revolution,
and the latter connected with an Irish family which came into
Tennessee from South Carolina.

Robert F. Blair completed his early literary education at the
University of Tennessee, where he was a student during 1883 and 1884,
but owing to ill health was not permitted to complete his course in
that institution. Predilection for the law led him into the study of
that profession, and to prepare himself for its practice he
matriculated at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
In 1890 he was graduated from that university at the head of his
class of forty-six pupils, and as the class orator was its
representative at commencement, winning favorable comment as such. In
the fall of 1890 Mr. Blair opened a law office at Knoxville,
Tennessee, but in March, 1892, removed to San Antonio, Texas, where
he resided and practiced his profession until 1899. At that time he
moved to Northern Arkansas, where for two or three years he was
engaged in mining ventures, but in 1902 came to Wagoner, Oklahoma,
where he has continued to reside and to follow his profession. He has
met with gratifying success in a material way and has forged his way
to a high rank in his calling, gaining an enviable position as an
honest, sincere and capable legist. Always maintaining the strictest
regard for integrity, and manifesting a commendable interest in
public affairs, Mr. Blair has won universal regard and esteem as a
citizen, aside from his standing in a professional capacity.

In politics Mr. Blair has always been a democrat and has been active
in the councils of his party, in the support of the candidates and
policies of which he has done much effective campaign work as a
speaker on the platform. He served two terms in the Legislature of
Texas in 1895-7, from Bexar County, wherein the City of San Antonio
is located, and was regarded as one of the best parliamentarians of
the body.

Although unmarried, Mr. Blair maintains a beautiful suburban home,
on a well improved farm near Wagoner.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Dorothy Marie Tenaza, January 9, 1999.