Anne Ruth Semple (June 9, 1900 – October 25, 1987) was a Native American writer and professor and the fifth poet laureate of the state of Oklahoma; appointed in 1945 by Governor Robert S. Kerr.^[1] Semple earned her Ph.D. from Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, which is now Oklahoma State University, with a dissertation on the history of Oklahoma Presbyterian College.^[1] She was a professor of Education at Southeastern Oklahoma State University from at least 1947 until 1965.^[2][3]

Semple was the great granddaughter of Peter Pitchlynn (Snapping Turtle),^[1] who served as chief of the Choctaw nation in the 1860s, and sister to William Finley Semple who served as chief of the Choctaw nation from 1918 to 1922.^[4] She's buried in Gethsemane Cemetery in Caddo, Oklahoma.

Bibliography

• Prairie-Born: A Book of Verse. Dallas: Kaleidograph, 1942.
• Ties that Bind: The Story of Oklahoma Presbyterian College. 1957

See also

• Poets Laureate of Oklahoma

References

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