George Patterson Nigh was elected Lieutenant Governor, the youngest in the state’s history (1958) and four term Governor of Oklahoma. He served as the seventeenth Governor for nine days in 1963. On January 3, 1979, he served five days to fill an unexpired term following the resignation of Governor David Boren. On January 8, 1979, he was sworn in for his regular term as the twenty-second Governor of Oklahoma and was re-elected in 1982 - the first Oklahoma Governor to win re-election to a second consecutive term, carrying all 77 counties. Nigh went on to become the President at the University of Central Oklahoma, retiring in 1997. Governor Nigh remains one of the most popular political figures in Oklahoma.
