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William Bliss Pine (December 30, 1877August 25, 1942) was a United States Senator from Oklahoma. Born in Illinois, he moved to Kansas and finally Oklahoma, where he became a prominent busineman and oil producer. As a senator, he was economically conservative, but considered progressive in his agricultural positions.〔 With the onset of the Great Depression, he and many other Republican politicians were turned out of office.〔 ==Early life and career== Born in Bluffs, Illinois, Pine graduated from a high school in Naples, Illinois in 1896 and taught school for three years while selling harvesters during the summer.〔Hanneman, Carolyn G., "(Pine, William Bliss )," ''(Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture )'' (accessed March 5, 2015).〕 He became a traveling salesman with the D. M. Osborne Company, which took him to Neosho County, Kansas, where he got caught up in oil fever.〔 He moved to Chanute, Kansas and was employed in the oil producing business; he moved to Oklahoma in 1904 and continued in the oil industry. In 1909 he located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma where he eventually became extensively engaged in the production of oil. Pine married his high school sweetheart, Laura M. Hamilton in 1912.〔 He became one of the state's leading independent oil producers and a prominent Okmulgee businessman.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William B. Pine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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