Joseph C. McClelland

Joseph C. McClelland was born in Missouri before his family moved to Colorado for his childhood. He later moved to Kansas before settling in Oklahoma Territory in 1893 where he homesteaded in Grant County. Around 1908, he moved to Oklahoma City and worked as a banker.^[1]

He was appointed to succeed Leo Meyer as Oklahoma State Auditor by Governor Lee Cruce after Meyer's resignation in 1913.^[1] He was appointed on February 12, 1913, and was succeed in office by Everette B. Howard.^[2] In 1914, he ran for Oklahoma State Treasurer in the Democratic Party's primary, but lost to William Lee Alexander.^[3]