Bird Segle McGuire was a Delegate and a U.S. Representative

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 from Oklahoma

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, and a cousin of William Neville

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Early life

Born in Belleville, Illinois

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, McGuire moved to Randolph County, Missouri with his parents in 1867. He attended public school. He moved to Chautauqua County, Kansas

Chautauqua County, Kansas

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, in the spring of 1881, and then to Indian Territory

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. He engaged in the cattle

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 business. He attended the State normal school at Emporia, Kansas

Emporia, Kansas

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. He taught for several terms, and later attended the law department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence. He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1889 and commenced practice in Chautauqua, Kansas

Chautauqua, Kansas

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Career

McGuire served as prosecuting attorney of Chautauqua County, Kansas

Chautauqua County, Kansas

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 from 1890 to 1894. He moved to Pawnee County, Oklahoma

Pawnee County, Oklahoma

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, in 1894 and practiced law in Pawnee. He was appointed assistant United States Attorney

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 for Oklahoma Territory

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 in 1897, in which capacity he served until after his nomination for Congress.

McGuire was elected as a Republican

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 a Delegate to the Fifty-eighth

58th United States Congress

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 and Fifty-ninth

59th United States Congress

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 Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1907.

McGuire was elected as a Representative to the Sixtieth

60th United States Congress

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 and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 16, 1907, when Oklahoma was admitted as a State into the Union, until March 3, 1915. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-first Congress

61st United States Congress

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). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress

64th United States Congress

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. He resumed the practice of his profession in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma

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. He also owned and operated a large ranch

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 near Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

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McGuire was recognized as the leader of one wing of the Oklahoma Republican Party

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 and battled with the last territorial governor Frank Frantz

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 over party leadership and patronage appointments. The infighting resulted in McGuire's being the only Republican elected to Congress from Oklahoma in 1907.

Death

He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma

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, November 9, 1930. He was interred in Memorial Park Cemetery.