US businessman, football player, and Republican politician

quarterback for University of Oklahoma 1979-1981

led University of Oklahoma to victory in Orange Bowl 1980, 1981

quarterback for Ottawa Roughriders 1981-1985

quarterback for Toronto Argonauts 1986

president of Watts Energy Co. 1987-1989

member of Oklahoma Corporation Commission 1991-1995 (1st black elected to state-wide office in Oklahoma)

Representative from Oklahoma 1995-2003

delivered Republican response to Bill Clinton's State of the Union address 1997

chairman of House Republican Conference 1999-2003

chairman of Gopac 2003–