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American politician (1942–2025)
Bernard McIntyre
Member of the Oklahoma Senate
from the 11th district
In office
1982–1986
Preceded byAllen G. Nichols (vacated office in 1973)
Succeeded byMaxine Horner
Member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
from the 73rd district
In office
1971–1982
Preceded byBen Hill
Succeeded byDonald Ross
Personal details
Born(1942-07-17)July 17, 1942
Muskogee, Oklahoma, U.S.
DiedJanuary 12, 2025(2025-01-12) (aged 82)
Political partyDemocratic Party
Spouse Harriet Ann Hampton ​(m. 1960)​ Judy Eason McIntyre ​ ​(m. 1971, divorced)​ Carlye Jemison ​(m. 1981)​
Children2

Bernard Julius McIntyre (July 17, 1942 – January 12, 2025) was an American politician from Tulsa who served in both houses of the Oklahoma Legislature. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives on 1971 and served until his election to the Oklahoma Senate in 1982.

He was the first African American elected to the Oklahoma Senate from Tulsa and the second elected in Oklahoma. McIntyre's political career ended in 1986 when he was resigned before being convicted of cocaine related federal charges.

Biography

Bernard Julius McIntyre was born on July 17, 1942, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Booker T. McIntyre and Bonnie J. McHenry. His family later moved to Tulsa and he graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1960.

He was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in a special election December 7, 1971, to fill a vacancy created by the death of representative Ben Hill. In 1982, McIntyre was elected to the Senate to a district created by legislative reapportionment in a predominantly black area of Tulsa. He was the second African American state senator in Oklahoma and the first elected from Tulsa. He ran and was re-elected to a four-year term in that district in 1984. In 1985, McIntyre and Donald Ross offered a measure which received legislative approval for a Martin Luther King holiday in Oklahoma. The measure was signed into law by Governor George Nigh.

During his tenure he supported Tulsa eliminating the city commission elected at-large with the Tulsa City Council and district elections and was one of two votes in opposition to legislation passed by the Oklahoma House allowing public schools to discriminate against employees who engaged in "public homosexual conduct" in 1978.

McIntyre became the chairman of the Senate Banks and Banking Committee in 1986. Later that year, McIntyre was convicted of six cocaine-related offenses and sentenced to five years imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Ralph Gordon Thompson of Oklahoma City later modified McIntyre's sentence to two years. One of his convictions was overturned on appeal. He admitted to using cocaine and maintained he was targeted for prosecution by Bill Price, the then-United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, to build a case against other legislators. Price denied the allegation.

McIntyre returned to Tulsa on July 10, 1987, after serving more than 10 months in a Fort Worth federal prison. In an interview, he said that he would finish his two-year term by living in a Salvation Army halfway House at night and spending his days as a consultant to minority businesses in Tulsa.

McIntyre died on January 12, 2025, at the age of 82.

Notes

  1. The Oklahoma Senate's 11th district was disestablished between 1971 and 1981.
  2. He had begun the prison term on August 28, 1986.

References

  1. 2005 Oklahoma Almanac Archived 2006-02-18 at the Wayback Machine, Oklahoma Department of Libraries (accessed July 10, 2013)
  2. ^ "Bernard Julius Mcintyre". Jack's Memory Chapel. January 17, 2025.
  3. "Tulsa community leaders reflect on progress this Black History Month". KJRH-TV. February 11, 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
  4. Greiner, John (June 7, 1986). "McIntyre Quits Senate Post, Cites Conduct". The Oklahoman. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
  5. Graham, Ginnie (January 15, 2017). "Why we celebrate Martin Luther King Day". Tulsa World. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
  6. ^ Krehbiel, Randy (January 18, 2025). "Bernard McIntyre, Tulsa's first Black state senator, dead at 82". Tulsa World. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
  7. "McIntyre: Too Much Success Too Soon". cdm15020.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  8. ^ "McIntyre in Tulsa After Prison Term." NewsOK. July 11, 1987. Accessed August 27, 2018.
  9. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (March 10, 1988). "United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Bernard J. Mcintyre, Defendant-appellant, 836 F.2d 467 (10th Cir. 1988)". justia.com.
  10. "Bernard Julius McIntyre". Tulsa World. January 17, 2025.


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