8th Oklahoma Legislature

8th Oklahoma Legislature
Leadership
President of the Senate:	Martin Trapp (D)
President Pro Tem of the Senate:	T. C. Simpson (D)
Speaker of the House:	George B. Schwabe (R)
Composition:	Senate 27      17      House 73      36

The Eighth Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma, composed of the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The state legislature met in Oklahoma City, in regular session from January 4 to April 2, 1921, and in special session from April 25 to May 21, 1921, during the third year of the term of Governor James B.A. Robertson. It was the first time, Republicans took control of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. In 1920, Bessie McColgin, a Republican, became the first woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. Lamar Looney, Oklahoma's first female state senator and a Democrat, was also elected in 1920.

Impeachment charges were brought against Lieutenant Governor Martin E. Trapp in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, but not sustained by the state senate.

T. C. Simpson served as the President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and Tom Waldrep served as the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

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T. C. Simpson of Thomas, Oklahoma, served as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate in 1921.George B. Schwabe was Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.