Dewey Follett Bartlett Jr. (born March 16, 1947) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 39th
Mayor
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of
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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. An oil industry executive and political figure in Tulsa, Bartlett was the Republican nominee for mayor of Tulsa in the 2009 election, and was elected as Tulsa's 39th mayor on November 10, 2009. He was re-elected in
2013
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, but was defeated in his second reelection bid in
2016
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.Bartlett to be Tulsa's next mayor , ''
Tulsa World
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'', November 10, 2009.
Background
Bartlett's father, Dewey F. Bartlett, was Oklahoma's second Republican governor from 1967 to 1971, and a
United States senator
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Party affiliation
Independent Senators Angus King of Maine and Berni ...
Bishop Kelley High School
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in Tulsa, then received a B.S. in accounting from
Regis University
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and an M.B.A. from
Southern Methodist University
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.Dewey Bartlett for Tulsa Mayor at
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(retrieved September 9, 2009).Biography of Dewey F. Bartlett Jr. at Keener Oil & Gas Company website (June 20, 2011). He is the President of the Keener Oil & Gas Company, the successor to a family business previously run by his father,"Bartlett to run for Tulsa mayor" ,
KJRH
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Political career
Bartlett served on the
Tulsa City Council
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from 1990 to 1994, and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in a 1992 special election. The ''
Tulsa World
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'' newspaper suggested that Bartlett lost the race due to extremely negative campaigning. In 2004 he ran against former state health secretary Tom Adelson for
Oklahoma Senate
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In 2009 he ran again for mayor of Tulsa.Brian Barber "Bartlett announces candidacy for mayor" , ''
Tulsa World
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'', June 25, 2009 On September 8, 2009, Bartlett won 54% of the Republican primary vote, setting him up for another match against Adelson (who received 94% of the vote in the Democratic primary) and two independents in the November general election. In the November 10 general election, Bartlett received about 45% of the vote, to 36% for Adelson and 18% for independent Mark Perkins. Bartlett took office on December 7, 2009.
In May 2011, the Tulsa city auditor issued a report stating that Bartlett had violated two sections of the city's ethics rules by accepting free legal advice from a lawyer who had also represented the city. Bartlett and his lawyer have disputed this finding.
In the 2013 mayoral election, Bartlett faced challenges from his Democratic predecessor, Kathy Taylor, as well as from another Republican, city councilman Bill Christiansen, and several other candidates. In the mayoral
primary election
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on June 11, 2013, the city used a new
non-partisan
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election system for the first time, and Bartlett finished second, with 34.2%, behind Taylor's 42.1% but ahead of Christiansen's 23.1%. Taylor and Bartlett then met in a
runoff election
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on November 12, 2013, and Bartlett won reelection with 55.7% of the vote.
In 2016, Bartlett lost reelection to city councilor and fellow Republican
G. T. Bynum
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KOTV
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