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JOSEPH WILEY SIMPSON
Although one of the younger representatives of the Tulsa bar, Joseph Wiley
Simpson has already attained a position that many an attorney of
twice his years might well envy, this being due to his close and
comprehensive study of legal principles and his power of analysis,
which enables him to recognize readily the relation between facts and the
law applicable thereto. Mr. Simpson was born in Oakman, Alabama,
February 7, 1894, a son of Z. H. and Theresa Ann (Rayburn) Simpson, both of
whom were natives of Tuscaloosa county, Alabama. The father was a soldier
cadet of the University of Alabama and followed farming prior to the Civil
war and afterward acquired large land holdings and engaged quite extensively
in agricultural pursuits. He took great pride in his fine stock, especially
horses, and was largely instrumental in
increasing the production of the thoroughbred horses raised in his part of
the state. He was likewise widely known as a successful breeder and
raiser of Hereford cattle, Berkshire hogs, Angora goats and Southdown sheep.
In fact he raised some of the best live stock in the country and
also took great pride in raising fine turkeys. I lis labors were directly
beneficial in improving the grade of stock raised in Alabama,
where his position in that field of business was long one of leadership. He
now makes his home in Oakman, Alabama, and is a
consistent member of the Baptist church there.
Joseph W. Simpson attended the public schools and the high school of
Birmingham, Alabama, and later spent two years as a student in the
University of Alabama, where he gained the liberal education that has
constituted an excellent basis for his knowledge of law. He began
preparing for the bar in the office of L. J. Cox of Birmingham and was
admitted to practice in Oklahoma in 1919. In the meantime he had served
his country as a soldier of the World war, enlisting on the 22d of May,
1917, at Chattanooga, as a private. He was in the quartermaster's
department for a year and for three months was sergeant. He was afterward
transferred to the Engineer Corps at Fort Oglethorpe,
Georgia, and was made regiment sergeant major. He sailed for France on the
17th of September, 1918, with the Six Hundred and Fifth Engineers, and was
at Chaumont, attached to general headquarters. He was transferred to general
headquarters of the Eighth Corps at Montigny-sur-Aube and was mustered out
on the 3d of August, 1919.
Since his admission to the bar Mr. Simpson has devoted his attention to
general law practice. He belongs to the Tulsa and to the State Bar
Associations and is also a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. In
politics he is quite active as a supporter of democratic principles.
Alert and enterprising, the future undoubtedly holds for him success, for he
is not afraid of that hard labor and thorough preparation which
constitute the basic elements in progress at the bar.
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