Edmund McCurtain

Edmund McCurtain was a Choctaw politician who served as the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation from 1884 to 1886.

Biography
Edmund McCurtain was born on June 4, 1842, at Fort Coffee, the son of Cornelius McCurtain. During the American Civil War he served under his brother Jackson McCurtain in the Confederate First Regiment of Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles. After the war he moved to Sans Bois in present-day Haskell County. In 1866 he built the Edmund McCurtain House. He became one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Choctaw Nation. From 1884 to 1886 he served as the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation. He died on November 11, 1890, at Skullyville, Indian Territory.