Sargent Prentiss Freeling

Sargent Prentiss Freeling (January 25, 1874 – April 18, 1937) was an American politician who served as the 2nd attorney general of Oklahoma between 1915 and 1922.

Early life and education Sargent Prentiss Freeling was born to John William Freeling and Rosa Minerva Cantrell on January 25, 1874, in McNairy, Tennessee. He attended Southwestern Baptist University and graduated from Harvard University in 1899 before attending Southern Law College for one year.

Move to Oklahoma and political career Freeling moved to Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1900. He was the elected county attorney for Pottawatomie County from 1902 to statehood. He ran against Charles West for the office of attorney general of Oklahoma in 1907, but lost the election. He would go on to win the race for attorney general in November 1914. He provided arms and ammunition to Glenn Condon and the Tulsa Council of Defense during World War I.

Later life and death Freeling resigned in 1922 to focus on the Red River litigation. He practiced law in Oklahoma City after his retirement. In 1924, Freeling ran in the 1924 United States Senate election in Oklahoma, but lost the primary. He would later represent the mastermind of the Osage Indian murders, William K. Hale, in his murder trial in 1926.

He died on April 18, 1937, in Oklahoma City, where he was later buried. He never married, had no children, and was survived by a sister in Italy.