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Killam was born in Grove in Delaware County in northeastern [[Oklahoma]] to [[Oliver Winfield Killam]] and the former Harriet "Hattie" Smith (1876–1949). Oliver Killam was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1911 to 1914 and the state Senate from 1915 to 1918. He worked for statehood of the former Oklahoma and Indian territories.<ref name=KillamCos>{{cite web|url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/02543.xml|title = History of the Killam Companies|publisher = The Killam Companies|accessdate=December 11, 2019}}</ref>​

Killam was born in Grove in Delaware County in northeastern [[Oklahoma]] to [[Oliver Winfield Killam]] and the former Harriet "Hattie" Smith (1876–1949). Oliver Killam was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1911 to 1914 and the state Senate from 1915 to 1918. He worked for statehood of the former Oklahoma and Indian territories.<ref name=KillamCos>{{cite web|url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/02543.xml|title = History of the Killam Companies|publisher = The Killam Companies|accessdate=December 11, 2019}}</ref>​

Oliver Killam moved with his wife and three children, to Laredo in 1920, when Radcliffe was ten years of age. His father had come to south Texas to prospect for [[petroleum]] and [[natural gas]] on mineral leases that he had acquired while in business in Oklahoma. The third Killam well brought about an oil boom in Mirando City in eastern Webb County in 1921, nearly a decade before the better known East Texas Oil Boom centered about Kilgore.  Killam grew up in the oil fields and spent his summers on the rigs.<ref name=KillamCos /> He graduated in 1932 from Laredo High School, since named Martin High School. He played on the former Laredo polo team and was a consummate horseman, who never complained, even when being thrown from a horse.<ref name=leaves_mark>Tricia Cortez, "Killam leaves mark on city," ''Laredo Morning Times,''September 11, 2007.</ref> Killam graduated from the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a [[Harvard Law School]].<ref name=LMTobit>Radcliffe Killam obituary, ''Laredo Morning Times,'' September 10, 2007.</ref>​

Oliver Killam moved with his wife and three children, to Laredo in 1920, when Radcliffe was ten years of age. His father had come to south Texas to prospect for [[petroleum]] and [[natural gas]] on mineral leases that he had acquired while in business in Oklahoma. The third Killam well brought about an oil boom in Mirando City in eastern Webb County in 1921, nearly a decade before the better known East Texas Oil Boom centered about Kilgore.  Killam grew up in the oil fields and spent his summers on the rigs.<ref name=KillamCos /> He graduated in 1932 from Laredo High School, since named Martin High School. He played on the former Laredo polo team and was a consummate horseman, who never complained, even when being thrown from a horse.<ref name=leaves_mark>Tricia Cortez, "Killam leaves mark on city," ''Laredo Morning Times,''September 11, 2007.</ref>  

 

Killam graduated from the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a [[Harvard Law School]].<ref name=LMTobit>Radcliffe Killam obituary, ''Laredo Morning Times,'' September 10, 2007.</ref>​

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