Samuel Checote

Samuel Checote is an Oklahoma historical marker in Okmulgee County.

Okmulgee County · on grounds of historic Creek Council House in Okmulgee

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Samuel Checote spent much of his life serving as a Methodist minister. During the Civil War he was a lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment of Creek Mounted Volunteers. He was elected principal chief of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in 1867.

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