Alice Mary RobertsonBy: Tiffany Hixson 

Alice Mary Robertson is very important to
Oklahoma.  She was a member of congress, a welfare worker and she started a Tulsa university.When her term in congress expired in 1923 she entered the veterans’ hospital at Muskogee and for two years served as a welfare worker.  Later she went to Washington as a correspondent for the Muskogee News. For the next seven years she lived at her country place near Muskogee and operated it as “Sawokla Dairy farm” She is from the Cherokee tribe. It is in the East West region in the
U.S. She attended school at Elmira College in New York. She started in 1871 and continued until 1873.Compelled to leave before graduating in order to provide the education of her sister; she received from the college the honorary degree of A.M. in 1886. She did a lot of stuff in her time; most of it was for soldiers and men in the war. Her work attracted so many people that Alice was elected to Congestion the republican ticket from the second Oklahoma district. She was also taught at schools but I wanted to know why she is famous.Chose Alice Robertson is because I attend Alice Robertson School and wanted to know more about she and what happened in her life. And how her is named after our school Alice Robertson Elementary!Where I got my informationFrom the computer. Yes she is dead she died with ill health on Jan. 2, 1931