Bernard Julius McIntyre was born on July 17, 1942, in
Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Booker T. McIntyre and Bonnie J. McHenry. His family later moved to
Tulsa and he graduated from
Booker T. Washington High School in 1960. He ran and was re-elected to a four-year term in that district in 1984. In 1985, McIntyre and
Donald Ross offered a measure which received legislative approval for a Martin Luther King holiday in Oklahoma. The measure was signed into law by Governor
George Nigh. During his tenure he supported Tulsa eliminating the
city commission elected at-large with the
Tulsa City Council and district elections and was one of two votes in opposition to legislation passed by the Oklahoma House allowing public schools to discriminate against employees who engaged in "public homosexual conduct" in 1978. McIntyre became the chairman of the Senate Banks and Banking Committee in 1986. Later that year, McIntyre was convicted of six cocaine-related offenses and sentenced to five years imprisonment. U.S. District Judge
Ralph Gordon Thompson of Oklahoma City later modified McIntyre's sentence to two years. One of his convictions was overturned on appeal. He admitted to using cocaine and maintained he was targeted for prosecution by Bill Price, the then-
United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, to build a case against other legislators. Price denied the allegation. ==Notes==