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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tom Adelson is an
American politician from Oklahoma. He is currently an Oklahoma State
Senator representing the 33 Senate District, located in Tulsa County.
Adelson is a Democrat who was first elected in 2004. Prior to his
election, Adelson served Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry's first
Oklahoma Secretary of Health from 2003 to 2004.Adelson was the
Democratic nominee for mayor of Tulsa in the 2009 election, but lost the
general election to Republican nominee Dewey F. Bartlett, Jr.Before
running for the state senate, Adelson served as Oklahoma's Secretary of
Health under Governor Brad Henry. He is an adjunct teacher at Booker T.
Washington High School in Tulsa, where he teaches political philosophy.
He has four children: Emily, Andrew, Sam and Jack. His father is Dr.
Stephen Adelson, a Tulsa pediatrician. He graduated from Edison High
School, Stanford University and SMU's Dedman School of Law.
