The next time some liberal Monty Python fan gets all mad and calls Mary Fallin a witch, I guess you can't blame them. Hidden in this weird TravelOK.com article about Mary Fallin's genealogy is a funny and bizarre little known fact: her middle name is Newt.
The 27th governor of Oklahoma is no longer known by her maiden name, but she still carries her father's moniker. Only those closest to her know that Mary Fallin's father, Newt, named his infant daughter Mary Newt Copeland. It was her great-grandfather's name too. Born in 1853, Thomas Newton Copeland and his bride, Fannie Mae Carr, left their home in Wayne County, Tennessee, with three small children in tow. After arriving in Indian Territory, a fourth child, Mary's grandfather Benton, was born. He was nearly five years old when Oklahoma became a state.