Kevin Stitt
Birth Name: John Kevin Stitt
Place of Birth: Milton, Florida, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 28, 1972
Ethnicity: Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, English, small amount of Cherokee Native American, other
Kevin Stitt is an American businessperson and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he has served as Governor of Oklahoma, since January 14, 2019. He is the founder of Gateway Mortgage Group, of which he was chairman and CEO.
Kevin was born in Milton, Florida, and grew up in Wayne, Oklahoma, the son of Joyce and John Stitt, a pastor of Riverside Church. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation through his great-grandfather, Robert Benton Dawson, who was given land in the Skiatook area. His other ancestry includes Scots-Irish/Northern Irish and English. The name Stitt is of Northern Irish origin. Kevin is married to Sarah Hazen, with whom he has six children.
Kevin is the first tribally enrolled Native American governor of any U.S. state. He is said to be the second governor of Indigenous ancestry, after Johnston Murray, who was of Chickasaw descent, and was also Governor of Oklahoma, from January 8, 1951 to January 10, 1955.
Kevin’s paternal grandfather was the head veterinarian at the Oklahoma City Stockyards.
Source: https://www.oklahoman.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/ytaq7m/i_am_in_need_of_help_for_28th_governor_of/ A discussion on his genealogy and whether Stitt’s greatgrandparents who got on the 1907 Dawes Rolls were legitimate. There was lots of corruption and attempts to fake one’s Cherokee ancestry to acquire land, the 1896 roll that was scrapped to had some former Cherokee Nation citizens on there, thus they can’t get on the 1907 Dawes Rolls, but of course, the tribe said the rolls aren’t perfect while there are documents of any kind from 1817-1907 to prove they were in fact Cherokee. The history of white settlers’ attempt sto steal land, then culture and now identity of Indigenous peoples in the USA and Canada is a problem that’s being more addressed after being underreported in the MSM until the 2010s, but the Cherokee Nation declared Stitt’s Cherokee “blood” to be legitimate due to other branches of his family tree linked to “Old Settlers” who moved west into KY, MO, AR and KS before into OK before the Trail of Tears removal, like his great-greatgrandmother Clara Claypole/-pool’s family. And there were some Cherokee who lived in western Skiatook, Osage county which was its own reservation for the Osage Nation who aren’t all found on the Dawes Rolls.
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