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Pleasant Porter

Tulsa County
Location: on US-64, at village of Leonard, about nine miles east of Bixby, Tulsa County
Topics: American Indians; Government; Military; Religion/Philosophy; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

The home and grave near here are of the noted Creek leader, Pleasant Porter (1840–1907). Lt. Creek Reg. Mtd. Vols., Confederate Army; Porter was superintendent of schools in the Creek Nation, 1871; Captain of the lighthorsemen in the "Green Peach War," 1883; a delegate to Washington; president of the Sequoyah Statehood Convention, 1905; and Principal Chief of the Creek Nation, 1899-1907. His home was near the location of Woalaka Mission founded in 1881.

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