Early Life and Move To Oklahoma
Lee Cruce was born in Marion, Kentucky Crittenden County, Kentucky on July 8, 1863. Educated Marion Academy, Cruce attended Vanderbilt University, where he received a law degree. Though he passed the Kentucky bar exam in 1887, he did not practice law until he joined his brother’s law firm at Ardmore in Indian Territory in 1891. After ten years of practicing law, Cruce entered the financial world as the first cashier of the Ardmore National Bank, of which he later served as the bank’s president. In 1901, Cruce was elected an alderman in the local government of Ardmore. Through his combined positions of power in the Ardmore National Bank and the movement towards statehood in late 1906, Cruce submitted his name on the Democratic primary for Governor of the newly created state of Oklahoma. The powerful, and popular Charles N. Haskell defeated Cruce for the nomination.
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