Biography

The fourth of five children.

He served four different times as governor, earning election in 1978 and 1982 making him the first Oklahoma governor to be reelected.

As a child, he worked in his parents' neighborhood grocery store.

In 1958, the 31-year-old Nigh became the youngest lieutenant governor in Oklahoma history and he was elected to that office again in 1966, serving through January 5, 1979.

He graduated from Eastern Oklahoma State College in Wilburton in 1948 and East Central University in Ada in 1950.