Editing Muskogee County, Oklahoma (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Tom Coburn]] (b. 1948), lived in Muskogee; served in U. S. House of Representatives (1995–2001); served as U.S. Senator from Oklahoma (1995–2014);
* [[Drew Edmondson]] (b. 1946), was elected attorney general for Oklahoma (1995–2011); ran unsuccessfully for governor of Oklahoma in 2010 and 2018.
* [[Ed Edmondson (politician)|Edmond Edmondson]] (1919–1990), served the Second Congressional District, which includes Muskogee County, from 1953 to 1973.
* [[James Howard Edmondson]] (1925–1971), born in Muskogee, served as Oklahoma governor (1959–63) and senator (1963–64).
* [[Charles N. Haskell]] (1860–1933), settled in Muskogee in 1901 and became a leader at the Sequoyah Convention and Oklahoma's first governor in 1907.
* [[Robert L. Owen]] (1856–1947), a Cherokee, served as the U.S. agent to the Five Civilized Tribes in Muskogee. In 1907 he became one of Oklahoma's first U.S. senators.
* [[Pleasant Porter]] (1840–1907), principal chief of the Creek Nation, negotiated the allotment treaty with the Dawes Commission. He served as president of the Sequoyah Convention.
* [[Alexander Posey]] (1873–1908), a Creek poet and newspaper editor in Muskogee, was secretary of the Sequoyah Convention and is credited with writing most of that constitution.
* [[Alice M. Robertson]]  (1854–1931), the first woman appointed postmaster of a Class A post office in the United States, in 1920 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the second woman in the United States to hold a congressional seat and was the only woman to serve Oklahoma in Congress until Mary Fallin was elected in 2006.
* [[Belle Starr]] (1848–1899), American outlaw; lived in the Cookson Hills in eastern Muskogee County.
* [[Mike Synar]] (1950–1996) served in Congress from 1979 to 1995.