Ed Boyle

Ed Boyle was an American politician who served as the Oklahoma Chief Mine Inspector and in the Oklahoma House of Representatives representing Haskell County.

Biography
Ed Boyle was born in 1867 in Kentucky. He moved to Missouri in 1897 and worked there as a miner, participating in a 1898 strike. He worked on the 1899 gubernatorial campaign for William Goebel, before his assassination. After working the campaign, he moved to Texas before settling in Indian Territory in 1901. He was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1907 and reelected without opposition in 1908. He was elected as a member of the Democratic Party as Chief Mine Inspector in the 1910 Oklahoma elections, defeating incumbent Pete Hanraty. He served in office from 1911 to 1927. He was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar Association in 1923, but never practiced. He ran in the 1926 Oklahoma gubernatorial election as an independent. He died of a stroke on July 17, 1935.