Dewey F. Bartlett
[1] Bartlett graduated from Princeton University with an undergraduate degree in geological engineering in 1942 after completing his senior thesis, titled "Water-flooding an oil formation", under the supervision of Glenn L. Jepsen and Kenneth DePencier Watson.[3] Following graduation from Princeton, Bartlett enlisted in the Navy; then served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a dive bomber during World War II in the Pacific theatre.[6] Following his defeat for reelection as governor, he served for one term in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 1979 after winning the seat previously held by Democrat Fred R. Harris.Two months after retiring from the U.S. Senate, he died in Tulsa from complications of lung cancer, and was buried in the city's Calvary Cemetery.In 1990 he was inducted into the Oklahoma CareerTech Hall of Fame[7] and in March, 2006, Congress passed a bill renaming the U.S. Post Office in Tulsa in his honor.