Background
Born in Richland, Kansas, Disney was the son of Wesley and Elizabeth Matney Disney, and attended the public schools of Kansas.
Born in Richland, Kansas, Disney was the son of Wesley and Elizabeth Matney Disney, and attended the public schools of Kansas.
He was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1906.
He was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1906, the Oklahoma bar in 1908, and began practice in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1908. Disney was county attorney of Muskogee County, Oklahoma, from 1911 to 1915. He was chairman of the board of managers in the impeachment trial of Governor Jack C. Walton in 1923.
Elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the six succeeding Congresses, Disney served from March 4, 1931 to January 3, 1945.
He was on the Banking and Currency Committee as well as the Ways and Means Committee, making him known as "watchdog of the Treasury". Not a candidate for renomination in 1944, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator.
He continued to practice law in Washington, District of Columbia, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was also a successful lobbyist. Disney died in Washington, District of Columbia, on March 26, 1961 (age 77 years, 146 days).
He is interred at Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
He was also a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He served as member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1919 to 1924.
