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John Calloway Walton (6 March 1881-25 November 1949) was the Democratic Governor of Oklahoma from 9 January to 19 November 1923, succeeding James B.A. Robertson and preceding Martin E. Trapp.

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John Calloway Walton was born in Greensboro, Indiana in 1881, and he was raised in Lincoln, Nebraska. He served in the US Army in Mexico at the same time as the Spanish-American War, after which he became a civil engineer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and became active in the state Democratic Party. He served as Oklahoma City public works commissioner from 1917 to 1919, Mayor of Oklahoma City from 1919 to 1923, and Governor in 1923, only to be removed from office by the legislature for his suspension of habeas corpus in Tulsa County to crack down on the increasingly powerful Klan. He lost in his bid for the US Senate in 1924, and he served on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission from 1933 to 1939 and died in 1949.

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