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RALPH I. RAWLINGS
Vol. 3, p. 1172

Though one of the youngest members of the Oklahoma bar, Ralph I.
RAWLINGS of Sulphur during his two years of practice has made a
somewhat notable record, especially in the field of criminal law.

Ralph Inman Rawlings is himself a native of Tennessee, born at
Sevier County October 4, 1892. His father, M. S. Rawlings was born in
the same Tennessee County in 1870 and is now living at Sulphur,
Oklahoma. He was reared and married in Sevier County, moved to
Montague County, Texas, in 1897, but in the course of the same year
located at Sulphur, then Indian Territory. He has had a very active
part in politics in this part of Oklahoma, and is now serving his
third successive term as sheriff of Murray County. He is an active
democrat, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and is
affiliated with Sulphur Lodge No. 353, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and with Sulphur Camp. Sheriff Rawlings married Miss
Florence FERGUSON, who was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, in 1873.
Ralph I. Rawlings is the oldest of their four children; Roy is as
senior in the high school at Sulphur; Allie May is a junior in the
high school; and B. Eugene is in the eighth grade of the public
schools.

Ralph I. Rawlings graduated from the Sulphur High School with the
class of 1908. During the following year he was associated with his
father in the contracting business at Oklahoma City. The next year
was spent as a student in the Agricultural and Mechanical College at
Stillwater, Oklahoma, followed by three years in the University of
Oklahoma at Norman, where he took the scientific course the first
year and after that applied himself diligently to the study of law.
He was admitted to the Oklahoma bar in 1913, and has since been
located at Sulphur. His offices are in the Weems Building.

He has done much as a democratic worker, and is chairman of the
Young Men's Democratic League of Murray County. He belongs to the
college fraternities Kappa Alpha and the Theta Nu Epsilon, and is
also a member of Pauls Valley Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of the Elks and of the Norman Camp of the Woodmen of the World.
He is a member of the Legal Committee of the Commercial Club.

In June 1915, at Sulphur, he married Miss Louie MOORE, whose father
is Dr. H. A. Moore, a physician and surgeon at Clinton, Oklahoma.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Susan Bradford, November 19, 1998.