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OU great Mildren dies at 58
By John Greiner | Modified: May 23, 2008 at 11:16 am
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Published: May 23, 2008
Oklahoman
Former University of Oklahoma quarterback Jack Mildren, 58, was remembered by close friends Thursday as a man who was much more than a football star.
"He was more than just a great athlete. He was a great political mind, and he will be sorely missed,” former state House Speaker Pro Tempore Danny Hilliard said.
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Victor Bird, now director of the Aeronautics Commission, was Mildren's leadership assistant when Mildren was Oklahoma's lieutenant governor.
"He wanted to do things. He wanted to accomplish things. He wanted to make a positive difference, and was very frustrated by the slowness of state government,” Bird said. "Jack was used to seeing a problem, figuring out a solution and implementing it.”
Mildren came into politics directly from a very successful career in the oil business in 1990 when he was elected lieutenant governor.'
His brother Richard said Mildren was having some health problems relating to cancer, and was taken to Baptist Hospital.
"They thought they would keep him overnight,” Richard Mildren said.
Richard said he got a call late Thursday afternoon from his brother's son, Drew, who told him he lost his dad.
Hilliard, who now is director of government relations for the University of Oklahoma, was at the state Capitol on Thursday when he got word that Mildren had died.
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