Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1907 — BLIND MAN WILL BE SENATOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BLIND MAN WILL BE SENATOR

The Democrats of Oklahoma have selected as one of the United States Senators to represent Oklahoma, ThpipaS P. Gore, of Lawton, who te fotally blind. His nomination is equal to an election. This is the first time In the history of the .United States that a blind man has ever been sent to the Senate, as Mr. Gore will be when statehood is accomplished under the present proposed constitution. “ Mr. Gore has been ip politics all h!« life, beginning as a page In tbe Mississippi Senate when he was * but 11

years old. It was during that time that he lost his eyesight by ’ftn accident with an arrow gun. Three years preTvbusly he had lost his left eye, a playmate, ip a moment of passion, striking him with a stone. Mr. Gore is hut 36 rears of age. He lives at Lawton, a wife and four children, and is a lawyer by profession. His memory Is a wonder. When his father prepared to send him to a blind school, he refused to go, saying that schools for the blind did not furnish him the books and Apportunity he desired. So he went to the public schools'and college, getting through by reason of his acute memory.

THOMAS P. GOBE.