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The Oregon People Subproject covers the people who are/were from, lived in or were influential on the history of the State of Oregon. Please feel free to modify this page as needed. This is a part of the WikiProject Oregon.

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Sources

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Books, online resources, etc. that will help in writing and editing
  • Corning, Howard M. Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956, for important people pre-1950.
  • History of Portland on Google books so you can search; or download it in PDF (free!) here.Scott, Harvey (1890). History of Portland Oregon. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse.
    • The PDF is a good option if you want to print it out (or part of it - it's over 600 pages) - but it doesn't allow you to search text; the Google page is better in that respect. (When searching text, note that the book contains some misspellings.)
    • This book has also been republished on the web by Access Genealogy, which is an easy way to search it: http://www.accessgenealogy.com/portland-oregon.htm
  • Chapman Publishing Company (1903). Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley, Oregon: Containing Original Sketches of Many Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present.

Priorities

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Pioneers

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  • Andre Longtain - owned land where Champoeg vote held, came to Oregon in 1811 to help found Ft. Astoria.[1]
  • William H. Rector: Champoeg settler, 1847 state legislator, part of the first Joel Palmer expedition, cofounder of the Salem woolen mill, 1861 Commissioner of Indian Affairs, railway entrepreneur. [2]
  • Colonel James Taylor: Astoria settler, assistant commissary to General Joel Palmer, first territorial treasurer. [3]

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Politicians

Governors (see List of Governors of Oregon):

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Senators (see List of United States Senators from Oregon):
U.S. Representatives (see List of United States Representatives from Oregon):

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State senators and representatives:

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  • William McCoy, first African American elected to the Oregon House (1972)

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  • Kate Brown
  • Margaret Carter, current senator and first African American woman elected to the Legislative Assembly (1984) - this citation, from the Jackie Winters article, will help.[1]
  • Ted Ferrioli, current Senate Minority Leader
  • Avel Gordly, current senator and first African American woman elected to the Oregon Senate (1996). Currently the only Independent in the OLA; 2006 recipient of Portland Mayor's Spirit of Portland Award (selected by Mayor Potter)[4]
  • Grattan Kerans, pretty slim article for former speaker with 20 years in the legislature

Other politicians

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Other

Templates

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  1. ^ Kenning, Chris (1999-01-11). "She is the first African-American Republican to serve". Statesman-Journal. Salem, Oregon: Gannett. pp. 1A. Retrieved 2006-12-28.