E. W. Marland

Ernest Whitworth Marland was an American lawyer, oil businessman in Pennsylvania and later Oklahoma, and politician who was a United States representative (congressman) and 10th governor of Oklahoma. He served in the United States House of Representatives from a district in northern Oklahoma, 1933 to 1935, and as the tenth governor of Oklahoma from 1935 to 1939. As a Democrat, he initiated a "Little Deal" in Oklahoma during the Great Depression of the 1930s, working to relieve the distress of unemployed people and the economic hardships affecting the state and nation-wide and to build infrastructure as investment for the future.