Randall Morton

A Houston resident, Randall Morton founded The Progressive Forum and co-founded The Oilfield Breakfast Forum, the largest speaker series in the petroleum industry, which he hosted for nine years.

He operated Randall Morton International for 32 years, an agency providing market communication, advertising, and public relations to leading oil service companies in the US, Japan, Mexico, and Europe.

Morton earned a degree in government from Georgetown University, and a second degree from Tulsa University in communications, where he also served as an adjunct professor teaching advertising design and copy.

He is a member of a working group at Rice University’s Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies, and an enrolled member of the Osage Indian tribe of Oklahoma.

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“Killers of the Flower Moon” and a Hundred Years of Healing, Fall 2023 | Vol. 68, No. 7

My grandparents were murdered during the Osage Reign of Terror. It took my family generations to recover.

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