N. D. Pritchett

Pritchett ran for the Oklahoma House of Representatives as the Socialist Party's nominee in 1914.[1] During the campaign, he was the associate editor for the Otter Valley Socialist. During his campaign, the newspaper accused Guy Parham of adultery and abandoning his wife and children.[2] Parham, who was an associate editor of the Socialist Antidote, filed a complaint of criminal libel against Pritchett and the paper's editor V.L. Rhodyback. Two to three weeks before the election, the pair were arrested on the charges and held for $500 bond. Their bond was paid that day.[3] After winning the election, he was the first third party nominee for Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.[1]

After losing his re-election campaign in 1916, Pritchett filed for divorce in April 1917. The divorce was granted without contest on August 25, 1917. He resigned as associate editor of the Otter Valley Socialist in September of that year and left Oklahoma. The criminal libel case against him filed by Parham was later dismissed in August 1918. He registered for the World War I draft on September 12, 1918 in Brawley, California were he had remarried and started working as a railroad telegrapher. He sold his land in Oklahoma in July 1923 and in 1926 he disappeared from Brawley.[4]