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Otto Arthur Cargill (26 February 1885-20 March 1973) was the Democratic Mayor of Oklahoma City from 4 April 1923 to 12 April 1927, succeeding Mike Donnelly and preceding Walter C. Dean.

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Otto Arthur Cargill was born in Viola, Arkansas in 1885, and he was educated in Mountain Home before moving to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1912. He served as a Deputy US Marshal, a streetcar conductor, an Oklahoma City police officer, a lawyer, county attorney from 1919 to 1920, and as Mayor from 1923 to 1927, when Cargill - a bitter opponent of the Ku Klux Klan - was defeated by the Klan-backed candidate Walter C. Dean. He was later involved in a bribery scandal involving several Oklahoma Supreme Court justices, was convicted on three counts of perjury in 1965, and died in 1973. He was the grandfather of country music star Henson Cargill.

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