Elias McLeod Landrum was an American and Cherokee politician who served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1907 to 1913.
While his conviction was on appeal, Governor E. W. Marland granted him parole and he spent the rest of his career working for the Oklahoma Tax Commission.
In December 1891, his father died and he returned home to manage the family farm he inherited near Vinita.
[1] In June 1907, he ran for the Democratic Party's nomination for Cherokee County register of deeds.
After a tri-county Democratic convention deadlocked on the party's nominee for Oklahoma's 30th senate district, Landrum was nominated as a compromise candidate.
The first would have banned the use of an Indian's likeness in tobacco advertising and the other would have funded the placement of a statue of Sequoyah in Statuary Hall.
After the school opened, Landrum tried to secure a mathematics professorship, but Oklahoma Attorney General Charles West objected to the appointment as a conflict of interest since Landrum created the position while in the Oklahoma Legislature.
Both Landrum and Hutchman were found guilty of the crime, but Landrum appealed and Governor E. W. Marland granted him parole after pleas for clemency from state senators Henry C. Timmons and Jack L. Rorschach, Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice W. H. Kornegay and state representative S. F. Parks.