Thomas T. Gore

Thomas Pryor Gore was born in 1870 near Embry, in Webster County, and lost his sight to two separate accidents as a child. He became a debater and orator all the same. He began as a Populist, joined the Democrats in 1899 and moved to Lawton, Oklahoma Territory, in 1901. One of Oklahoma's first two senators, he served from 1907 to 1921 and again from 1931 to 1937. He opposed entering World War I and the draft, and in 1935 he cast the lone Senate vote against WPA funding. His grandson was the writer Gore Vidal.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Casey Jones Railroad Museum — 27 mi
  The old Illinois Central depot in Water Valley, where Casey Jones worked in the 1890s, with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker for the songs written about his death in 1900.

More markers nearby

• Calhoun County Blues — 9.6 mi
• Webster County Courthouse — 17 mi
• Carnegie Library — 18 mi
• Bukka White — 18 mi