Robert Dunlop (Oklahoma politician)

Robert Dunlop was an American politician who served as the Oklahoma State Treasurer from January 9, 1911, to January 11, 1915.

Biography[edit]

Robert Dunlop was born in 1869 in Garnett, Kansas to Scottish immigrant parents from Dunlop and Kelso. He moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1889, eventually settling in Kay County, Oklahoma where he was elected county treasurer in 1902 and reelected in 1904. He lost the 1907 Oklahoma State Treasurer election to James Menefee.^[1] He won the 1910 Oklahoma State Treasurer election.^[2] He unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 1914 Oklahoma gubernatorial election.^[3]

Oklahoma State Treasurer Democratic primary (August 2, 1910)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Robert Dunlop	56,348	55.0%
	Democratic	Martin E. Trapp	46,233	45.0%
Turnout			102,581

1910 Oklahoma State Treasurer election^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Democratic	Robert Dunlop	118,479	49.6%	-5.1%
Republican	W.H. Dill	93,726	39.2%	-2.2%
Socialist	C.B. Boylan	23,697	9.9%	+6.1%
Prohibition	E.H. Leonard	2,827	1.1%	New
Democratic hold		Swing

Democratic primary results^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Robert L. Williams	33,605	27.1
	Democratic	James B. A. Robertson	33,504	25.5
	Democratic	Al Jennings	21,732	16.5
	Democratic	Robert Dunlap	16,094	12.2
	Democratic	Charles West	14,642	11.1
	Democratic	F. E. Herting	10,164	7.7
Total votes			131,291	100.00

^ Corden, Seth K.; Richards, William B. (1912). The Oklahoma red book. Oklahoma City. p. 122. Retrieved 19 February 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c "1907-1912 Results" (PDF). oklahoma.gov. Oklahoma State Election Board. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
^ ^a ^b "1914-1916 results" (PDF). Oklahoma State Election Board. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 5, 2022.

Party political offices
Preceded by James Menefee	Democratic nominee for Oklahoma State Treasurer 1910	Succeeded by W. L. Alexander