Tom Cole: “My mother's side of the family is Chickasaw.”

“Your dad did 20 years in the Air Force, but tell us about your upbringing. Well, we're a pretty Typical service family. You know, my family very deeply rooted in Oklahoma. The. My mother's side of the family is Chickasaw. And the first of her forebears arrived here literally immediately adjacent to and sometimes in this district back in the 1830s. And so her family's been here ever since.” (02:54–02:57)

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