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. An oil industry executive and political figure in Tulsa, Bartlett was the

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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

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, but was defeated in his second reelection bid in 2016.Bartlett to be Tulsa's next mayor
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'', November 10, 2009.

Background

Bartlett's father,

Dewey F. Bartlett Dewey Follett Bartlett Sr. (March 28, 1919 – March 1, 1979) was an American politician who served as the 19th governor of Oklahoma from 1967 to 1971, following his fellow Republican, Henry Bellmon. In 1966, he became the first Roman Cat ...

, was Oklahoma's second Republican governor from 1967 to 1971, and a

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from 1973 to 1979. His mother, Ann Bartlett, is a former

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. The younger Bartlett attended

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in Tulsa, then received a B.S. in accounting from

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and an M.B.A. from

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.Dewey Bartlett for Tulsa Mayor
at

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(retrieved September 9, 2009).Biography of Dewey F. Bartlett Jr.
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.com, June 25, 2009. and has served as the chairman of the

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and the National

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Association, as well as a member of the board of the

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Political career

Bartlett served on the Tulsa City Council from 1990 to 1994, and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in a 1992 special election. The ''

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for

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"Bartlett announces candidacy for mayor"
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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

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on June 11, 2013, the city used a new

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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

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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, who received about 56 percent of the vote while Bartlett had about 38 percent. "GT Bynum Defeats Incumbent Bartlett For Tulsa Mayor"
KOTV, June 28, 2016

References

External links

Bio - Mayor Dewey F. Bartlett Jr.
at City of Tulsa website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bartlett, Dewey F. Jr. 1947 births Living people Mayors of Tulsa, Oklahoma Oklahoma city council members Oklahoma Republicans Regis University alumni Southern Methodist University alumni 20th-century American politicians 21st-century American politicians Candidates in the 1992 United States elections