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Frank Keating

President, American Bankers Association, former Governor of Oklahoma, an American Legend

Frank Keating served two terms as Governor of Oklahoma following a career in federal law enforcement and law enforcement related fields. As governor, he achieved charter, choice and curriculum rigor reforms in Oklahoma. He serves on The Teaching Commission and co-chairs with former Secretary Richard Riley, the National Commission on Higher Education Accountability.

Frank A. Keating Keating has been the President and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers, a large trade organization since January 2003.

Governor Keating became a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1966 and then served as Assistant District Attorney in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. In 1972, Governor Keating was elected to the Oklahoma State House of Representatives and two years later was elected to the Oklahoma State Senate.

In 1981 Governor Keating was appointed as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma and in 1985 he began seven years of service in the Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush administrations serving as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Associate Attorney General in the Justice Department and as General Counsel and Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 1994, Governor Keating was elected as Oklahoma’s 25th Governor and served two consecutive four-year terms.

Governor Keating is a director of American Management Systems, Incorporated, a business and information technology consulting firm. Governor Keating graduated from Georgetown University in 1966 and from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1969.

Topics: Homeland Security and Our future

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An Evening with Governor Frank Keating

America: The Shining City on the Hill

Will Rogers: An American Legend

The folksy, adventurous Oklahoma-born newspaper columnist and celebrated wit who never met a man he didn't like takes center stage in this admiring if impressionistic picture book biography. Oklahoma governor Keating emphasizes Rogers's personality in place of much expository information, quoting him on nearly every page ("They may call me a rube and a hick, but I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it"). An evocation of Rogers's childhood in Indian Territory, where he learned "to ride and rope as well as any boy or man" and also to love books, abruptly yields to a scene of Rogers suddenly grown up and traveling by plane "everywhere he could" and "always joking and sharing with others the humor and joy of living." Readers are almost certain to want more of an explanation of Rogers's career, but it does not come. Wimmer (Summertime) makes excellent use of both natural and interior light in his realistic oil paintings, capturing the beauty of Rogers's native state as well as his lively spirit. The book design plays up the homey western theme, with linked horseshoes branding bold W's on the endpapers and the text presented as a series of pages pulled out of an old manual typewriter. Ages
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