High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James C. "Jim" Nance (August 27, 1893 – September 3, 1984) was a community newspaper chain publisher and state legislative leader in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Nance served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and was a key sponsor and Legislative Chairman of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission (ULC), an advisory panel which drafted and proposed uniform acts and uniform state commerce laws. Nance became known as a legislative expert in a 40 year legislative career as one of two Oklahomans to hold the top posts in both chambers of the Oklahoma Legislature. The state`s largest newspaper, The Daily Oklahoman called Nance "A Legislator`s Legislator." Nance is the only Oklahoma House Speaker elected with a bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans.