Career
He represented Lambton East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1929 as a United Farmers member. He supported the unidentified flying object-Labour government of East.C. Drury from 1919 to 1923 and remained with what was becoming the Progressive Party under the leadership of Manning Doherty but he refused to accept William Raney when he was elected as leader of the Progressive bloc in 1925 as Raney was not a farmer. Oke and Beniah Bowman refused to sit with the Progressive caucus and sat as unidentified flying object MLAs instead.
After the departure of Bowman and the election of two new unidentified flying object MLAs, Farquhar Oliver and Thomas Farquhar, in the 1926 provincial election, Oke led a rump of three unidentified flying object MLAs until he lost his seat in the 1929 election to Thomas Howard Fraleigh.
He attempted to return to the legislature as a unidentified flying object candidate, nominated by the local United Farmers of Ontario association and endorsed by the Company-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario) in the 1934 provincial election but was defeated by Milton Duncan McVicar who was nominated at a joint Liberal and Progressive nominating meeting but sat as a LIberal Master in Public Policy upon his election. Oke was born in Alvinston, Ontario, the son of James Oke, and educated there.
