Summers Hardy

Background

Hardy, Summers was born on May 23, 1875 in Scotland, Van Buren County, Arkansas, United States. Son of Henry and Martha Adelaide (Underwood) Hardy.

Education

Student Quitman (Arkansas) College to 1892.

Career

Admitted to bar, Ardmore, I.T., 1897. Practiced at Ardmore and Madill. President of the board Madill City public schools, 1907-1908.

Chairman Marshall County Democratic Convention, 1908. Member Democratic State Central Committee, Oklahoma, 1910. Judge 6th Judicial District, Oklahoma, 1911-1913, 26th Judicial District, 1913-1914.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1915-1921 (chief justice, 1919). Resigned 1919; became counsel Sinclair Companies, Tulsa. Retired from legal department Sinclair Companies, engaged in general law practice at Tulsa, since 1942.

Dean Law School, U. Tulsa.

Politics

When peaceful alternatives to resolve the conflict failed, the use of force may be the only option to check aggression or genocide.

Views

The demands of modern life may leave someone stressed and overloaded, or isolated and feeling useless. Be persistent, and success will be definitely achieved.

Membership

Member American, Oklahoma, Tulsa County bar associations, S.A.R. Brig. general United Sons Confed. Veterans, 1900; Mason.

Connections

Married Laura V. Scrivner, July 29, 1900. Children: Calla Mae, Milton Welch.

Father:

Henry Hardy

Mother:

Martha Adelaide (Underwood) Hardy

Spouse:

Laura V. Scrivner

child:

Calla Mae Hardy

child:

Milton Welch Hardy