Former GOP House Leader Jim Connor Dies

Former Republican House leader Jim Connor of Bartlesville is dead at age 75.

Connor, an attorney, served in the House from 1962 to 1970 and was one of those involved in the 1965 House impachment of then-Supreme Court Justice N. B. Johnson for bribery.

Connor was a key adviser to Republican Governor Henry Bellmon and his successor, Dewey F. Bartlett and carried much of Bartlett's legislative program in the House.

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