December 31, 1966
12/31/2021 @ All Day – CHEROKEE U.S. REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM WIRT HASTINGS BORN Born in Benton County, Arkansas, Hastings’s family moved to Beattie’s Prairie, Delaware District, Cherokee Nation. Graduating from Cherokee Male Seminary (1884), he taught school (1884-86) before earning a law degree from Vanderbilt University (1889) and beginning a law partnership in Tahlequah, Indian Territory. Hastings also served the Cherokee […]