[Information is taken from the book "Leaders and Leading Men of the Indian Territory, Choctaw and Chickasaw", by H. F. O’Beirne, vol. 1. Publisher is: American Publishers’ Association, Chicago, IL, printed in the year 1891. [Page 250]

HUMPHREY COLBERT - Chickasaw

The subject of this biography is the son of the celebrated chief, Winchester Colbert. Humphrey was born close to the Canadian River near North Fork, in 1842. In 1860 he married Elmira Parker, a Chickasaw, and in 1862 enlisted as lieutenant of the Chickasaw Battalion under Col. Lem Reynolds, in which service he remained for two years. In 1865 he was appointed Sheriff and in 1866 elected County Judge of Pontotoc county, which office he held "off and on" for a term of three years and a half, finally sending in his resignation. During the Harris administration he was first elected a member of the House of Representatives (1873); was re-elected in 1877, and again in 1886. During the office of Interpreter for the House, County and District Clerk, Commissioner on Incompetent Funds and Attorney General of the Chickasaw Nation, so that he has scarcely been out of office for thirty years. At one period he held no less than three offices at the same time. At present he is occupying that of County Clerk, and was nominated March 25, 1890, by the National party for Attorney General of the Nation. By his first wife Mr. Colbert has five children -- Elizabeth, Walton, Martha, Doherty and Louisa, the oldest being twenty-eight and the youngest sixteen years of age. His first wife died in 1884, after which he married Selina Hamilton, daughter of Solomon Ano-la-tubby.

Mr. Humphrey Colbert is a pleasant-mannered gentleman, with a good address, and is quite popular among all parties.

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