Old Glory
Friday, March 31, 2006
The Reverent Folding of the Flag of the United States of America
Thank you, to Myrtle Creek's Denise Graham, for raising this important civics issue.
As found on usflag.org, please click the headlink above, for a visual representation of the manner of flag folding:
FLAG FOLDING CEREMONY
As an Army and Navy custom, the flag is lowered daily at the last note of retreat. Special care should be taken that no part of the flag touches the ground. The Flag is then carefully folded into the shape of a tri-cornered hat, emblematic of the hats worn by colonial soldiers during the war for Independence. In the folding, the red and white stripes are finally wrapped into the blue, as the light of day vanishes into the darkness of night.
This custom of special folding is reserved for the United States Flag alone.
HOW TO FOLD THE FLAG:
Step one: To properly fold the Flag, begin by holding it waist-high with another person so that its surface is parallel to the ground.
Step two: Fold the lower half of the stripe section lengthwise over the field of stars, holding the bottom and top edges securely.
Step three: Fold the flag again lengthwise with the blue field on the outside.
Step four: Make a triangular fold by bringing the striped corner of the folded edge to meet the open (top) edge of the flag.
Step five: Turn the outer (end) point inward, parallel to the open edge, to form a second triangle.
Step six: The triangular folding is continued until the entire length of the flag is folded in this manner.
Step seven: When the flag is completely folded, only a triangular blue field of stars should be visible.
FLAG FOLDING CEREMONY
The flag folding ceremony described by the Uniformed Services is a dramatic and uplifting way to honor the flag on special days, like Memorial Day or Veterans Day, and is sometimes used at retirement ceremonies.
Here is a typical sequence of the reading:
(Begin reading as Honor Guard or Flag Detail is coming forward).
"The flag folding ceremony represents the same religious principles on which our country was originally founded. The portion of the flag denoting honor is the canton of blue containing the stars representing the states our veterans served in uniform. The canton field of blue dresses from left to right and is inverted when draped as a pall on a casket of a veteran who has served our country in uniform.
In the Armed Forces of the United States, at the ceremony of retreat the flag is lowered, folded in a triangle fold and kept under watch throughout the night as a tribute to our nation's honored dead. The next morning it is brought out and, at the ceremony of reveille, run aloft as a symbol of our belief in the resurrection of the body."
(Wait for the Honor Guard or Flag Detail to unravel and fold the flag into a quarter fold--resume reading when Honor Guard is standing ready.)
"The first fold of our flag is a symbol of life.
The second fold is a symbol of our belief in the eternal life.
The third fold is made in honor and remembrance of the veteran departing our ranks who gave a portion of life for the defense of our country to attain a peace throughout the world.
The fourth fold represents our weaker nature, for as American citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well as in times of war for His divine guidance.
The fifth fold is a tribute to our country, for in the words of Stephen Decatur, "Our country, in dealing with other countries, may she always be right; but it is still our country, right or wrong."
The sixth fold is for where our hearts lie. It is with our heart that we pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The seventh fold is a tribute to our Armed Forces, for it is through the Armed Forces that we protect our country and our flag against all her enemies, whether they be found within or without the boundaries of our republic.
The eighth fold is a tribute to the one who entered in to the valley of the shadow of death, that we might see the light of day, and to honor mother, for whom it flies on mother's day.
The ninth fold is a tribute to womanhood; for it has been through their faith, love, loyalty and devotion that the character of the men and women who have made this country great have been molded.
The tenth fold is a tribute to father, for he, too, has given his sons and daughters for the defense of our country since they were first born.
The eleventh fold, in the eyes of a Hebrew citizen, represents the lower portion of the seal of King David and King Solomon, and glorifies, in their eyes, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The twelfth fold, in the eyes of a Christian citizen, represents an emblem of eternity and glorifies, in their eyes, God the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost.
When the flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost, reminding us of our national motto, 'In God we Trust.'"
(Wait for the Honor Guard or Flag Detail to inspect the flag--after the inspection, resume reading.)
"After the flag is completely folded and tucked in, it takes on the appearance of a cocked hat, ever reminding us of the soldiers who served under General George Washington and the sailors and marines who served under Captain John Paul Jones who were followed by their comrades and shipmates in the Armed Forces of the United States, preserving for us the rights, privileges, and freedoms we enjoy today."
As found on usflag.org, please click the headlink above, for a visual representation of the manner of flag folding:
FLAG FOLDING CEREMONY
As an Army and Navy custom, the flag is lowered daily at the last note of retreat. Special care should be taken that no part of the flag touches the ground. The Flag is then carefully folded into the shape of a tri-cornered hat, emblematic of the hats worn by colonial soldiers during the war for Independence. In the folding, the red and white stripes are finally wrapped into the blue, as the light of day vanishes into the darkness of night.
This custom of special folding is reserved for the United States Flag alone.
HOW TO FOLD THE FLAG:
Step one: To properly fold the Flag, begin by holding it waist-high with another person so that its surface is parallel to the ground.
Step two: Fold the lower half of the stripe section lengthwise over the field of stars, holding the bottom and top edges securely.
Step three: Fold the flag again lengthwise with the blue field on the outside.
Step four: Make a triangular fold by bringing the striped corner of the folded edge to meet the open (top) edge of the flag.
Step five: Turn the outer (end) point inward, parallel to the open edge, to form a second triangle.
Step six: The triangular folding is continued until the entire length of the flag is folded in this manner.
Step seven: When the flag is completely folded, only a triangular blue field of stars should be visible.
FLAG FOLDING CEREMONY
The flag folding ceremony described by the Uniformed Services is a dramatic and uplifting way to honor the flag on special days, like Memorial Day or Veterans Day, and is sometimes used at retirement ceremonies.
Here is a typical sequence of the reading:
(Begin reading as Honor Guard or Flag Detail is coming forward).
"The flag folding ceremony represents the same religious principles on which our country was originally founded. The portion of the flag denoting honor is the canton of blue containing the stars representing the states our veterans served in uniform. The canton field of blue dresses from left to right and is inverted when draped as a pall on a casket of a veteran who has served our country in uniform.
In the Armed Forces of the United States, at the ceremony of retreat the flag is lowered, folded in a triangle fold and kept under watch throughout the night as a tribute to our nation's honored dead. The next morning it is brought out and, at the ceremony of reveille, run aloft as a symbol of our belief in the resurrection of the body."
(Wait for the Honor Guard or Flag Detail to unravel and fold the flag into a quarter fold--resume reading when Honor Guard is standing ready.)
"The first fold of our flag is a symbol of life.
The second fold is a symbol of our belief in the eternal life.
The third fold is made in honor and remembrance of the veteran departing our ranks who gave a portion of life for the defense of our country to attain a peace throughout the world.
The fourth fold represents our weaker nature, for as American citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well as in times of war for His divine guidance.
The fifth fold is a tribute to our country, for in the words of Stephen Decatur, "Our country, in dealing with other countries, may she always be right; but it is still our country, right or wrong."
The sixth fold is for where our hearts lie. It is with our heart that we pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The seventh fold is a tribute to our Armed Forces, for it is through the Armed Forces that we protect our country and our flag against all her enemies, whether they be found within or without the boundaries of our republic.
The eighth fold is a tribute to the one who entered in to the valley of the shadow of death, that we might see the light of day, and to honor mother, for whom it flies on mother's day.
The ninth fold is a tribute to womanhood; for it has been through their faith, love, loyalty and devotion that the character of the men and women who have made this country great have been molded.
The tenth fold is a tribute to father, for he, too, has given his sons and daughters for the defense of our country since they were first born.
The eleventh fold, in the eyes of a Hebrew citizen, represents the lower portion of the seal of King David and King Solomon, and glorifies, in their eyes, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The twelfth fold, in the eyes of a Christian citizen, represents an emblem of eternity and glorifies, in their eyes, God the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost.
When the flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost, reminding us of our national motto, 'In God we Trust.'"
(Wait for the Honor Guard or Flag Detail to inspect the flag--after the inspection, resume reading.)
"After the flag is completely folded and tucked in, it takes on the appearance of a cocked hat, ever reminding us of the soldiers who served under General George Washington and the sailors and marines who served under Captain John Paul Jones who were followed by their comrades and shipmates in the Armed Forces of the United States, preserving for us the rights, privileges, and freedoms we enjoy today."
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Oregon Republican League: History 101
Every Wednesday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Click on the head link above, to visit more of our listings at genealogy.com. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 181-184.
BEEKMAN, B. B. [Editor inserted: Benjaman B. Beekman], of Portland, was born in Jacksonville, Oregon, August 3, 1863, and was educated at the public school and the University of Oregon, from which he graduated in 1884. He was then elected a tutor at the university, but a year later resigned, and in 1886 entered the law department of Yale College. He graduated I 1888 and was admitted to the bar in Connecticut. In 1889 he located to Portland, and in 1893 became a member of the firm Watson, Beekman & Watson. Mr. Beekman takes an active interest in politics on the broad principles of the duty of an American citizen, and not as a spoils politician. He stumped the state I 1890. In 1892 he was chosen vice-president of the Republican League of Oregon, and in 1894 was elected to president. Under his administration the league grew from a feeble organization of a few clubs to the powerful working body it is today. At the last meeting he declined re-election on the ground that such honors should not be absorbed by one individual.
BEEKMAN, C. C.[Editor inserted: Cornelius C. Beekman], of Jacksonville, was born in New York city, January 27, 1828. In 1850 he came round the horn to San Francisco. He went to the northern mines, and in 1853 became an express messenger between Yreka, Crescent City and Jacksonville. In 1856 he embarked in the express business on his own account. In 1863 he became Wells Fargo & Co’s agent at Jacksonville, where he has resided ever since, and is engaged in the banking business. Mr. Beekman is a successful business man, and is recognized as the leading man of affairs in Southern Oregon. He has been repeatedly School Trustee, City Trustee and Mayor. He has been a prominent and active Republican, and in 1878 was the Republican nominee for Governor, being defeated by only 49 votes. He has held many positions of trust in the party, and is considered as one of the strong, clean men to whom it can turn in time of need.
BEEBE, GENERAL CHARLES F., of Portland, was born in New York city, May 28, 1849, and was educated at the Flushing Institute. He entered the employ of Beebe & Brother, tea brokers and in 1874 became a partner. In 1880 he formed, with Henry M. Evans, the firm of Evans & Beebe, cotton brokers. In 1883 he united with Allen M. Sutton & Beebe, and the following year came to Portland to manage the business here of the Sutton & Co. dispatch line of clipper ships. General Beebe’s work, outside his business, has been of a military character, and he has been most influential factor in giving Oregon its present excellent National Guard organization. In 1871 he enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, New York, and served seven years. He was then appointed aid-de-camp on the staff of the Second Brigade. He was promoted finally to the rank of major and brigade inspector on the general staff, with the same rank. He resigned when he came to Portland. In 1886 he helped organized Company K, First Regiment, O. N.G., and was elected lieutenant. A few months later he was elected captain, and following year colonel. He was re-elected in 1891, and in 1895 was appointed brigadier general, commanding all forces in the state.
BICKERS, HORACE, E., of Pendleton, was born near Jefferson, Oregon, September 26, 1856. He came to Umatilla County in 1861, and has followed mercantile pursuits. He was postmaster at Alba from 1888 to 1890. He was elected City Treasurer of Pendleton in 1894 and 1895. He has been a delegate to county conventions since 1886, and in 1894 acted as secretary.
BLUNDELL, JAMES E., of Canyonville, has twice represented Douglas County in the legislature. He was born May 7, 1843, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and came to Oregon in 1865, settling in Douglas County in 1871. He is a school teacher by profession, but has taken an active and continuous interest in politics. He has been frequently a delegate to conventions and club meetings, and was elected to the legislature in 1892 and 1894.
BLAKESLEY, C. M. [Editor inserted: Charles M. Blakesley], of St. Helens, was born at Corvallis, Oregon December 9, 1864, and came to St. Helens twenty-two years ago. He is by occupation a fisherman. He was Deputy Sheriff three years under W. H. Meeker, and two years under C. F. Doan. He was the Republican nominee for Sheriff in 1892, and is again the nominee this year. He has been a delegate to conventions, and is an earnest worker in the party ranks.
BLAKESLEY, A. H. [Editor inserted: Abraham H. Blakesley], of St. Helens, was born in Vermillion County, Indiana, December 13, 1831, and came to Oregon forty-two years ago. He soon went to California and engaged in mining and farming for a time, when he returned to Oregon and relocated in Jackson County, where he helped organize the Republican party in 1858, and helped to elect Lincoln President in 1860. He then lived for a few years in Siskiyou County, California, and three years in Benton County, Oregon. Twenty-three years ago he moved to St. Helens, and has been a prominent leader of the Republican party in Columbia County ever since. He was a delegate to the state and county conventions of 1874, and frequently since, and to the league meeting of 1894. In 1886 he was elected Justice of the Peace and held the office nine years. In 1886 he was member of the City Council three terms. In 1858 he was a nominee for assessor of Jackson County on the first Republican ticket in the county. He has four sons, all Republicans.
BLOWERS, CAPTAIN A. S. [Editor inserted: Ambrose S. Blowers], of Hood River, was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, December 31, 1845. In 1862 he enlisted in the Second Minnesota Calvary and served three years. By appointment of President Grant, he served eight years as Postmaster of New York Mills, Minnesota. While there he was several times a delegate to the Ottertail County convention and the Minnesota state convention from 1882 to 1886. He held the offices Assessor, Clerk, and Deputy Sheriff of Clay County. He was Commissioner of Ottertail County twelve years, and Becker County one term. He was defeated for the legislature by only two votes, though ahead of his party. He came to Oregon and located in Hood River in general merchandise business, and has been a delegate to the Wasco County conventions several times, and the league meeting of 1895. In 1894 Mr. Blowers was elected County Commissioner, and in 1896 only lacked two votes of receiving the nomination for County Judge. He is president of the McKinley Club and captain of the Hood River Company of the Third Regiment, O. N. G.
BLANCHARD, HON. DEAN, of Rainer, was born in Madison, Maine, December 20, 1832, and came to Oregon in 1852. He engaged in various pursuits until 1857, when he was elected Auditor of Columbia County, and in 1858 County Clerk. This was the time of the organization of the Republican party, of which he was one of the founders. In 1863 he engaged in the mercantile, saw mill and wood business in Rainier. He was made Postmaster there, and has held the office continuously. In 1874 he was elected County Judge, and held the office many years. He has been a member of county and state conventions and central committees for nearly forty years, and for several years has been president of the Rainier Republican Club.
BLACKBURN, D. R. N. [Editor inserted: D. Rull N. Blackburn], of Albany, was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee, August 29, 1845, and came to Oregon in 1874, locating at Eugene in the practice of the law, having been admitted to the bar in his native state in 1867. He has been an earnest Republican, and is a member of the James G. Blaine Republican Club. He was a delegate to the Linn County convention in 1894 and the state convention the same year. In 1888 he was elected County Judge.
BOISE, HON. R. P. [Editor inserted: Reuben P. Boise], of Salem, was born in Blanford, Massachusetts, in 1819, and graduated from Williams College in 1843. He was admitted to the bar in 1848, and in 1850 came to Oregon. He was chosen Prosecuting Attorney for the first and second districts in 1852 and re-elected in 1854. He was one of the Code Commissioners in 1854, and was also elected to the legislature that year and the constitutional convention in 1857, and that year was appointed Supreme Judge. He was elected chief Justice when Oregon was admitted, and in 1864 was again elected to the supreme bench. He retired in 1870, but was again elected in 1886. Since that time Judge Boise has allied himself with the populists.
BOWLBY, DR. WILSON, of Forest Grove, was born in Fairfield, New Jersey, in 1818. In 1852 he came to Oregon and settled in Washington County in the practice of medicine. He has been an active Republican from the foundation of the party. He was a member of the state conventions of 1860, 1862 and 1864, and was a member of both the house and the senate of the state legislature for several terms, being one pf the first Republicans to sit in that body.
BOOTH, R. A. [Editor inserted: Robert A. Booth], of Grant’s Pass, was born in Yamhill County, Oregon, May 15, 1858. In 1867 he went to Douglas County, where he began to teach at the age of seventeen. Later he became principal of the Drain Academy and Normal School. In 1888 he located in Grant’s Pass. In 1890 he organized the First National Bank, of which he is cashier. He is also vice-president and manager of the Sugar Pine Door & Lumber Co. Since 1880 he has been continuously a delegate to the Douglas and Josephine county conventions, and to the state conventions of 1880, 1882, 1892 and 1896.
BOWLBY, J. Q. A. [Editor inserted: John Quincy Adams Bowlby], of Astoria, was born in the city of New York, August 15, 1843. He came to Oregon in 1852 and lived on a farm in Washington County until 1868. In 1867-68 he studied law, and graduated at the Pacific University at Forest Grove in 1867. He then went to Portland, and a year later went to Astoria as Deputy Collector of Customs, and held that office six years. He then took up the practice of law in that city, having been admitted to the bar in 1874. Mr. Bowlby was elected County Judge in 1876 and again in 1878. He has been almost continuously a member of conventions and an earnest Republican worker. He has been a member of the City Council, a School Director, and was for ten years president of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce.
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 181-184.
BEEKMAN, B. B. [Editor inserted: Benjaman B. Beekman], of Portland, was born in Jacksonville, Oregon, August 3, 1863, and was educated at the public school and the University of Oregon, from which he graduated in 1884. He was then elected a tutor at the university, but a year later resigned, and in 1886 entered the law department of Yale College. He graduated I 1888 and was admitted to the bar in Connecticut. In 1889 he located to Portland, and in 1893 became a member of the firm Watson, Beekman & Watson. Mr. Beekman takes an active interest in politics on the broad principles of the duty of an American citizen, and not as a spoils politician. He stumped the state I 1890. In 1892 he was chosen vice-president of the Republican League of Oregon, and in 1894 was elected to president. Under his administration the league grew from a feeble organization of a few clubs to the powerful working body it is today. At the last meeting he declined re-election on the ground that such honors should not be absorbed by one individual.
BEEKMAN, C. C.[Editor inserted: Cornelius C. Beekman], of Jacksonville, was born in New York city, January 27, 1828. In 1850 he came round the horn to San Francisco. He went to the northern mines, and in 1853 became an express messenger between Yreka, Crescent City and Jacksonville. In 1856 he embarked in the express business on his own account. In 1863 he became Wells Fargo & Co’s agent at Jacksonville, where he has resided ever since, and is engaged in the banking business. Mr. Beekman is a successful business man, and is recognized as the leading man of affairs in Southern Oregon. He has been repeatedly School Trustee, City Trustee and Mayor. He has been a prominent and active Republican, and in 1878 was the Republican nominee for Governor, being defeated by only 49 votes. He has held many positions of trust in the party, and is considered as one of the strong, clean men to whom it can turn in time of need.
BEEBE, GENERAL CHARLES F., of Portland, was born in New York city, May 28, 1849, and was educated at the Flushing Institute. He entered the employ of Beebe & Brother, tea brokers and in 1874 became a partner. In 1880 he formed, with Henry M. Evans, the firm of Evans & Beebe, cotton brokers. In 1883 he united with Allen M. Sutton & Beebe, and the following year came to Portland to manage the business here of the Sutton & Co. dispatch line of clipper ships. General Beebe’s work, outside his business, has been of a military character, and he has been most influential factor in giving Oregon its present excellent National Guard organization. In 1871 he enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, New York, and served seven years. He was then appointed aid-de-camp on the staff of the Second Brigade. He was promoted finally to the rank of major and brigade inspector on the general staff, with the same rank. He resigned when he came to Portland. In 1886 he helped organized Company K, First Regiment, O. N.G., and was elected lieutenant. A few months later he was elected captain, and following year colonel. He was re-elected in 1891, and in 1895 was appointed brigadier general, commanding all forces in the state.
BICKERS, HORACE, E., of Pendleton, was born near Jefferson, Oregon, September 26, 1856. He came to Umatilla County in 1861, and has followed mercantile pursuits. He was postmaster at Alba from 1888 to 1890. He was elected City Treasurer of Pendleton in 1894 and 1895. He has been a delegate to county conventions since 1886, and in 1894 acted as secretary.
BLUNDELL, JAMES E., of Canyonville, has twice represented Douglas County in the legislature. He was born May 7, 1843, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and came to Oregon in 1865, settling in Douglas County in 1871. He is a school teacher by profession, but has taken an active and continuous interest in politics. He has been frequently a delegate to conventions and club meetings, and was elected to the legislature in 1892 and 1894.
BLAKESLEY, C. M. [Editor inserted: Charles M. Blakesley], of St. Helens, was born at Corvallis, Oregon December 9, 1864, and came to St. Helens twenty-two years ago. He is by occupation a fisherman. He was Deputy Sheriff three years under W. H. Meeker, and two years under C. F. Doan. He was the Republican nominee for Sheriff in 1892, and is again the nominee this year. He has been a delegate to conventions, and is an earnest worker in the party ranks.
BLAKESLEY, A. H. [Editor inserted: Abraham H. Blakesley], of St. Helens, was born in Vermillion County, Indiana, December 13, 1831, and came to Oregon forty-two years ago. He soon went to California and engaged in mining and farming for a time, when he returned to Oregon and relocated in Jackson County, where he helped organize the Republican party in 1858, and helped to elect Lincoln President in 1860. He then lived for a few years in Siskiyou County, California, and three years in Benton County, Oregon. Twenty-three years ago he moved to St. Helens, and has been a prominent leader of the Republican party in Columbia County ever since. He was a delegate to the state and county conventions of 1874, and frequently since, and to the league meeting of 1894. In 1886 he was elected Justice of the Peace and held the office nine years. In 1886 he was member of the City Council three terms. In 1858 he was a nominee for assessor of Jackson County on the first Republican ticket in the county. He has four sons, all Republicans.
BLOWERS, CAPTAIN A. S. [Editor inserted: Ambrose S. Blowers], of Hood River, was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, December 31, 1845. In 1862 he enlisted in the Second Minnesota Calvary and served three years. By appointment of President Grant, he served eight years as Postmaster of New York Mills, Minnesota. While there he was several times a delegate to the Ottertail County convention and the Minnesota state convention from 1882 to 1886. He held the offices Assessor, Clerk, and Deputy Sheriff of Clay County. He was Commissioner of Ottertail County twelve years, and Becker County one term. He was defeated for the legislature by only two votes, though ahead of his party. He came to Oregon and located in Hood River in general merchandise business, and has been a delegate to the Wasco County conventions several times, and the league meeting of 1895. In 1894 Mr. Blowers was elected County Commissioner, and in 1896 only lacked two votes of receiving the nomination for County Judge. He is president of the McKinley Club and captain of the Hood River Company of the Third Regiment, O. N. G.
BLANCHARD, HON. DEAN, of Rainer, was born in Madison, Maine, December 20, 1832, and came to Oregon in 1852. He engaged in various pursuits until 1857, when he was elected Auditor of Columbia County, and in 1858 County Clerk. This was the time of the organization of the Republican party, of which he was one of the founders. In 1863 he engaged in the mercantile, saw mill and wood business in Rainier. He was made Postmaster there, and has held the office continuously. In 1874 he was elected County Judge, and held the office many years. He has been a member of county and state conventions and central committees for nearly forty years, and for several years has been president of the Rainier Republican Club.
BLACKBURN, D. R. N. [Editor inserted: D. Rull N. Blackburn], of Albany, was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee, August 29, 1845, and came to Oregon in 1874, locating at Eugene in the practice of the law, having been admitted to the bar in his native state in 1867. He has been an earnest Republican, and is a member of the James G. Blaine Republican Club. He was a delegate to the Linn County convention in 1894 and the state convention the same year. In 1888 he was elected County Judge.
BOISE, HON. R. P. [Editor inserted: Reuben P. Boise], of Salem, was born in Blanford, Massachusetts, in 1819, and graduated from Williams College in 1843. He was admitted to the bar in 1848, and in 1850 came to Oregon. He was chosen Prosecuting Attorney for the first and second districts in 1852 and re-elected in 1854. He was one of the Code Commissioners in 1854, and was also elected to the legislature that year and the constitutional convention in 1857, and that year was appointed Supreme Judge. He was elected chief Justice when Oregon was admitted, and in 1864 was again elected to the supreme bench. He retired in 1870, but was again elected in 1886. Since that time Judge Boise has allied himself with the populists.
BOWLBY, DR. WILSON, of Forest Grove, was born in Fairfield, New Jersey, in 1818. In 1852 he came to Oregon and settled in Washington County in the practice of medicine. He has been an active Republican from the foundation of the party. He was a member of the state conventions of 1860, 1862 and 1864, and was a member of both the house and the senate of the state legislature for several terms, being one pf the first Republicans to sit in that body.
BOOTH, R. A. [Editor inserted: Robert A. Booth], of Grant’s Pass, was born in Yamhill County, Oregon, May 15, 1858. In 1867 he went to Douglas County, where he began to teach at the age of seventeen. Later he became principal of the Drain Academy and Normal School. In 1888 he located in Grant’s Pass. In 1890 he organized the First National Bank, of which he is cashier. He is also vice-president and manager of the Sugar Pine Door & Lumber Co. Since 1880 he has been continuously a delegate to the Douglas and Josephine county conventions, and to the state conventions of 1880, 1882, 1892 and 1896.
BOWLBY, J. Q. A. [Editor inserted: John Quincy Adams Bowlby], of Astoria, was born in the city of New York, August 15, 1843. He came to Oregon in 1852 and lived on a farm in Washington County until 1868. In 1867-68 he studied law, and graduated at the Pacific University at Forest Grove in 1867. He then went to Portland, and a year later went to Astoria as Deputy Collector of Customs, and held that office six years. He then took up the practice of law in that city, having been admitted to the bar in 1874. Mr. Bowlby was elected County Judge in 1876 and again in 1878. He has been almost continuously a member of conventions and an earnest Republican worker. He has been a member of the City Council, a School Director, and was for ten years president of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Franklyn C. "Lyn" Nofziger (June 8, 1924 - March 27, 2006)
Franklyn C. "Lyn" Nofziger (June 8, 1924 - March 27, 2006) was an American journalist, political consultant and author. He served as a White House advisor during the Richard Nixon administration and as a press secretary during Ronald Reagan's administration.
Born in Bakersfield, California, Nofziger served in the U.S. Army and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from San Jose State College. He worked for 16 years as a reporter, editor and Washington correspondent for Copley Newspapers and Copley News Service.
In 1966, he was named press secretary for Reagan's successful gubernatorial campaign in California, and served two years as Governor Reagan's Director of Communications.
After Richard Nixon's election as U.S. President in 1968, Nofziger then served the Nixon White House as deputy assistant to the president for congressional relations and the Republica National Committee as its deputy chairman for communications.
He worked for Nixon's presidential re-election campaign in 1972 as executive director of the California Committee to Re-Elect the President.
As Governor Reagan set his sights on the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, Nofziger served his campaign as press secretary, convention director and director of the California campaign. When Gerald Ford won the Republican nomination, Nofziger assisted with the Ford-Dole campaign, which lost the election to Democrat Jimmy Carter and the Carter-Mondale campaign.
Nofziger went back to work for Governor Reagan as he began laying the groundwork for the 1980 campaign, serving as executive vice-chairman of Citizens for the Republic, a political action committee founded by Reagan. With the run at the White House in full gear in 1979, Mr. Nofziger served as deputy chairman for finance for the Reagan for President organization. Reagan won the election, defeating Carter's campaign for a second term.
Despite Nofziger's extensive experience as a spokesman for Reagan, the newly-elected president named James Brady to be his Press Secretary. Nofziger was instead named to the post of assistant to the president for political affairs in the White House, and Nofziger was employed there for about a year. Mr. Nofziger was a senior consultant for the 1984 Reagan-Bush Re-Election Campaign and a member of the 1985 Inaugural Committee.
In 1987, Nofziger (along with others) was investigated regarding allegedly illegal lobbying by Reagan officials on behalf of Wedtech Corporation, a defense contractor during his time at the White House. Attorney General Edwin Meese's role in securing a lucrative army contract for Wedtech also was investigated. Nofziger was the only person subsequently convicted, and that judgment was overturned upon appeal.
Nofziger also ran political campaigns for Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes.
Nofziger’s political memoir, titled Nofziger, was published in October of 1992 by Regnery Gateway. He wrote four Western novels with a hero named Tackett, a drifter who falls into situations that compel him to rescue women in distress.
Nofziger died at his home in Falls Church, Virginia of cancer at age 81.
Born in Bakersfield, California, Nofziger served in the U.S. Army and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from San Jose State College. He worked for 16 years as a reporter, editor and Washington correspondent for Copley Newspapers and Copley News Service.
In 1966, he was named press secretary for Reagan's successful gubernatorial campaign in California, and served two years as Governor Reagan's Director of Communications.
After Richard Nixon's election as U.S. President in 1968, Nofziger then served the Nixon White House as deputy assistant to the president for congressional relations and the Republica National Committee as its deputy chairman for communications.
He worked for Nixon's presidential re-election campaign in 1972 as executive director of the California Committee to Re-Elect the President.
As Governor Reagan set his sights on the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, Nofziger served his campaign as press secretary, convention director and director of the California campaign. When Gerald Ford won the Republican nomination, Nofziger assisted with the Ford-Dole campaign, which lost the election to Democrat Jimmy Carter and the Carter-Mondale campaign.
Nofziger went back to work for Governor Reagan as he began laying the groundwork for the 1980 campaign, serving as executive vice-chairman of Citizens for the Republic, a political action committee founded by Reagan. With the run at the White House in full gear in 1979, Mr. Nofziger served as deputy chairman for finance for the Reagan for President organization. Reagan won the election, defeating Carter's campaign for a second term.
Despite Nofziger's extensive experience as a spokesman for Reagan, the newly-elected president named James Brady to be his Press Secretary. Nofziger was instead named to the post of assistant to the president for political affairs in the White House, and Nofziger was employed there for about a year. Mr. Nofziger was a senior consultant for the 1984 Reagan-Bush Re-Election Campaign and a member of the 1985 Inaugural Committee.
In 1987, Nofziger (along with others) was investigated regarding allegedly illegal lobbying by Reagan officials on behalf of Wedtech Corporation, a defense contractor during his time at the White House. Attorney General Edwin Meese's role in securing a lucrative army contract for Wedtech also was investigated. Nofziger was the only person subsequently convicted, and that judgment was overturned upon appeal.
Nofziger also ran political campaigns for Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes.
Nofziger’s political memoir, titled Nofziger, was published in October of 1992 by Regnery Gateway. He wrote four Western novels with a hero named Tackett, a drifter who falls into situations that compel him to rescue women in distress.
Nofziger died at his home in Falls Church, Virginia of cancer at age 81.
Caspar Willard Weinberger August 18, 1917 - March 28, 2006: Well done, thy good and faithful servant
Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Dies
Under Reagan, He Presided Over Record Peacetime Military Buildup
By GEORGE GEDDA, AP
WASHINGTON (March 28) - Caspar W. Weinberger, who served in the Cabinets of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and was central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, died Tuesday at 88.
Weinberger had been hospitalized for about a week with a high fever and pneumonia brought on by old age, according to his son, Caspar Weinberger Jr. Weinberger's wife of 63 years, Jane, was by his side when he died, the son said.
"He gave everything to his country, to public office and to his family," Caspar Weinberger Jr. said.
As Richard Nixon's budget director, Weinberger was such a zealous economizer he earned the nickname "Cap the Knife" for his efforts to slash government spending, largely by cutting or curtailing many of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society social programs.
Later, he became the consummate Cold Warrior as Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense and presided over $2 trillion in military spending -- the biggest peacetime increase in U.S. history.
"I was deeply disturbed to learn of the death of a great American and a dear friend," said former Secretary of State Colin Powell. "Cap Weinberger was an indefatigable fighter for peace through strength. He served his nation in war and peace in so many ways."
Patrick Buchanan, an aide and speechwriter in the Nixon White House, called Weinberger "a good friend."
"I think he was just about one of the best Cabinet officers that I've known in a lifetime," Buchanan said.
Weinberger was a lifelong Republican. He began his political career in 1952 in the California Legislature, where he took on and cleaned up a corrupt state liquor commission.
Weinberger, who called himself a "fiscal Puritan" and believed that budgets should always be balanced, first demonstrated his budget-trimming talents in the late 1960s when he helped solve California's budget problems as then-Gov. Reagan's finance director.
His tireless pursuit of Reagan's fiscal policies drew the attention of the Nixon White House and in 1969 Weinberger was recruited to head the Federal Trade Commission, where as chairman he instituted several high-profile reforms. He then moved on to run the president's Office of Management and Budget in 1970.
He also served as Nixon's secretary of health, education and welfare before returning to San Francisco in 1975 as special counsel to the Bechtel Corp., the huge worldwide construction company.
Weinberger was recalled to public service from Bechtel by Reagan.
It was his post as defense secretary that lead to Weinberger's greatest challenge: federal felony charges stemming from his alleged role in the sale of weapons to Iran to finance secret, illegal aid to the Nicaragua Contras. The "arms-for-hostages" affair poisoned the closing years of Reagan's administration, permanently stained the reputations of the insiders involved and cast a cloud over President George H.W. Bush throughout his four-year administration.
In one of the first President Bush's final official acts after his 1992 loss to Bill Clinton, he granted Christmas Eve pardons to Weinberger and five others accused in the scandal.
Weinberger, who was 75 at the time, had been scheduled to stand trial in less than two weeks on charges that he concealed thousands of pages of his handwritten notes from congressional investigators and prosecutors.
He'd earlier rejected independent counsel Lawrence Walsh's plea-bargain offer to testify against his longtime friends and colleagues -- including Reagan -- and plead guilty to a misdemeanor.
Weinberger had said he was innocent to all the charges and considered the indictment a political attack. Friends said he could have never turned on associates he'd known for decades.
After the pardon was announced, Walsh charged that "the Iran-Contra coverup, which has continued for more than six years, has now been completed."
In 1989, Weinberger, a self-described "frustrated newspaperman," joined Forbes to become the magazine's fourth publisher. In 1993 he was named chairman of Forbes Inc., filling a position that had been vacant since the 1990 death of Malcolm S. Forbes. He endorsed Steve Forbes for president in 1996.
Weinberger occasionally spoke out on current affairs in recent years. In 1996, he criticized then-Defense Secretary William J. Perry for refusing to announce publicly that the United States would defend Taiwan if China fired missiles at the island.
"It is very serious business to give any slight encouragement to China to think that an attack would not be met," Weinberger said.
"Even though the Cold War and Gulf War have been won, all the world's threats are not gone," he told a Nebraska business group in 1999. "We're not hunting around for enemies, but there are potential threats to our desire to live in peace and freedom. Peace alone is not enough. Peace can even mean slavery sometimes. Peace and freedom is what we have to have."
Weinberger told the group that U.S. military strength does not mean being the policeman of the world, "but it does require that we have the capabilities that when these conflicts do break out in areas that do affect our national interest that they can be dealt with firmly, quickly and decisively."
Caspar Willard Weinberger was born Aug. 18, 1917, in San Francisco. His father was a lawyer who early on sparked young Weinberger's interest in politics and government. Even as an adolescent he used to enjoy reading the Congressional Record, and at his high school graduation delivered a speech on "the honorable profession of politics."
Weinberger was always an avid reader, whose tastes tended toward English history and the novels of Thackeray, Trollope and Scott. He also loved music, ballet and the theater.
While he enjoyed a reputation for toughness, friends described him as a mild-mannered and witty man who had an irreverent and often self-deprecating sense of humor.
As a young man, Weinberger went East for his education. At Harvard he edited the Harvard Crimson, won election to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. He attended Harvard Law School where he received his degree in 1941.
With America's entry into World War II, Weinberger enlisted in the Army as a private, graduated from Officer Candidate School and was shipped to the Pacific. He served with the 41st Infantry Division, an outfit that saw heavy fighting against the Japanese.
He came out of the war a captain and returned to his home state to start a law practice and become active in politics.
Weinberger got married to Jane Dalton during the war. Besides his wife, he is survived by his son and a daughter, Arlin Weinberger.
No funeral arrangements were immediately announced.
03/28/06 11:31 ET
Under Reagan, He Presided Over Record Peacetime Military Buildup
By GEORGE GEDDA, AP
WASHINGTON (March 28) - Caspar W. Weinberger, who served in the Cabinets of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and was central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, died Tuesday at 88.
Weinberger had been hospitalized for about a week with a high fever and pneumonia brought on by old age, according to his son, Caspar Weinberger Jr. Weinberger's wife of 63 years, Jane, was by his side when he died, the son said.
"He gave everything to his country, to public office and to his family," Caspar Weinberger Jr. said.
As Richard Nixon's budget director, Weinberger was such a zealous economizer he earned the nickname "Cap the Knife" for his efforts to slash government spending, largely by cutting or curtailing many of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society social programs.
Later, he became the consummate Cold Warrior as Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense and presided over $2 trillion in military spending -- the biggest peacetime increase in U.S. history.
"I was deeply disturbed to learn of the death of a great American and a dear friend," said former Secretary of State Colin Powell. "Cap Weinberger was an indefatigable fighter for peace through strength. He served his nation in war and peace in so many ways."
Patrick Buchanan, an aide and speechwriter in the Nixon White House, called Weinberger "a good friend."
"I think he was just about one of the best Cabinet officers that I've known in a lifetime," Buchanan said.
Weinberger was a lifelong Republican. He began his political career in 1952 in the California Legislature, where he took on and cleaned up a corrupt state liquor commission.
Weinberger, who called himself a "fiscal Puritan" and believed that budgets should always be balanced, first demonstrated his budget-trimming talents in the late 1960s when he helped solve California's budget problems as then-Gov. Reagan's finance director.
His tireless pursuit of Reagan's fiscal policies drew the attention of the Nixon White House and in 1969 Weinberger was recruited to head the Federal Trade Commission, where as chairman he instituted several high-profile reforms. He then moved on to run the president's Office of Management and Budget in 1970.
He also served as Nixon's secretary of health, education and welfare before returning to San Francisco in 1975 as special counsel to the Bechtel Corp., the huge worldwide construction company.
Weinberger was recalled to public service from Bechtel by Reagan.
It was his post as defense secretary that lead to Weinberger's greatest challenge: federal felony charges stemming from his alleged role in the sale of weapons to Iran to finance secret, illegal aid to the Nicaragua Contras. The "arms-for-hostages" affair poisoned the closing years of Reagan's administration, permanently stained the reputations of the insiders involved and cast a cloud over President George H.W. Bush throughout his four-year administration.
In one of the first President Bush's final official acts after his 1992 loss to Bill Clinton, he granted Christmas Eve pardons to Weinberger and five others accused in the scandal.
Weinberger, who was 75 at the time, had been scheduled to stand trial in less than two weeks on charges that he concealed thousands of pages of his handwritten notes from congressional investigators and prosecutors.
He'd earlier rejected independent counsel Lawrence Walsh's plea-bargain offer to testify against his longtime friends and colleagues -- including Reagan -- and plead guilty to a misdemeanor.
Weinberger had said he was innocent to all the charges and considered the indictment a political attack. Friends said he could have never turned on associates he'd known for decades.
After the pardon was announced, Walsh charged that "the Iran-Contra coverup, which has continued for more than six years, has now been completed."
In 1989, Weinberger, a self-described "frustrated newspaperman," joined Forbes to become the magazine's fourth publisher. In 1993 he was named chairman of Forbes Inc., filling a position that had been vacant since the 1990 death of Malcolm S. Forbes. He endorsed Steve Forbes for president in 1996.
Weinberger occasionally spoke out on current affairs in recent years. In 1996, he criticized then-Defense Secretary William J. Perry for refusing to announce publicly that the United States would defend Taiwan if China fired missiles at the island.
"It is very serious business to give any slight encouragement to China to think that an attack would not be met," Weinberger said.
"Even though the Cold War and Gulf War have been won, all the world's threats are not gone," he told a Nebraska business group in 1999. "We're not hunting around for enemies, but there are potential threats to our desire to live in peace and freedom. Peace alone is not enough. Peace can even mean slavery sometimes. Peace and freedom is what we have to have."
Weinberger told the group that U.S. military strength does not mean being the policeman of the world, "but it does require that we have the capabilities that when these conflicts do break out in areas that do affect our national interest that they can be dealt with firmly, quickly and decisively."
Caspar Willard Weinberger was born Aug. 18, 1917, in San Francisco. His father was a lawyer who early on sparked young Weinberger's interest in politics and government. Even as an adolescent he used to enjoy reading the Congressional Record, and at his high school graduation delivered a speech on "the honorable profession of politics."
Weinberger was always an avid reader, whose tastes tended toward English history and the novels of Thackeray, Trollope and Scott. He also loved music, ballet and the theater.
While he enjoyed a reputation for toughness, friends described him as a mild-mannered and witty man who had an irreverent and often self-deprecating sense of humor.
As a young man, Weinberger went East for his education. At Harvard he edited the Harvard Crimson, won election to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. He attended Harvard Law School where he received his degree in 1941.
With America's entry into World War II, Weinberger enlisted in the Army as a private, graduated from Officer Candidate School and was shipped to the Pacific. He served with the 41st Infantry Division, an outfit that saw heavy fighting against the Japanese.
He came out of the war a captain and returned to his home state to start a law practice and become active in politics.
Weinberger got married to Jane Dalton during the war. Besides his wife, he is survived by his son and a daughter, Arlin Weinberger.
No funeral arrangements were immediately announced.
03/28/06 11:31 ET
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Oregon Republican League: History 101
Every Wednesday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Click on the head link above, to visit more of our listings at genealogy.com. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 179-181.
BARRETT, HON. C.A. [Editor inserted: Charles A. Barrett], of Athena, was born in Maine in 1852. He settled in Umatilla County in 1872, and followed stockraising until 1883, when he began a successful mercantile career in Athena. Mr. Barrett is president of the First National Bank of Athena. He has been twice elected a member of the City Council and School Board, and was elected Mayor in 1890. He is president of the Republican club.
BARIN, LOUIS T., of Portland, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, March 13, 1842. In 1858 he went to the gold mines of California, and in 1862 came to Oregon and soon enlisted in the First Oregon Cavalry and served three years in the Indian country. He then took up a claim near Oregon City and farmed and studied law. He was admitted in 1872. The same year he was elected to the legislature. In 1874 and 1875 he was elected to City Attorney of Oregon City, and in 1877 was chosen Mayor, serving two terms. In 1878 he was appointed Register of the United States Land Office and was reappointed in 1882. In 1886 he was elected to the state senate for four years. In 1888 he was chairman of the state central committee. President Harrison appointed him United States Marshal for four years. He is now practicing law in Portland.
BAKER, FRANK C., of Portland, was born in Multnomah County (then Washington County), Oregon, in 1854. In 1865 the family removed to La Grande, where Frank entered the office of the Mountain Sentinel and learned the printer’s trade. He then worked on the Baker City Herald, and the Silver City Avalanche and Boise City Statesman. He then returned to Portland, worked on the Evening Journal and became foreman successively of the Evening Telegram, Evening Bee and Rural Spirit. In 1881 the Multnomah Typographical Union indorsed him for State Printer, and he received the Republican nomination and was elected. He opened the first regular printing office in the capitol and performed his work so successfully that he was renominated by acclamation in 1890 and re-elected. He is an earnest Republican and liberal in support of many party measures.
BANCROFT, F. A., of Portland, was born in Granville, Ohio, in 1819, and came to California in 1869. In 1870 he made a tour of Europe. In 1873 he settled in Portland, and two years later entered the employ of the Oregon & California Railroad, now the Southern Pacific, and having charge of the extensive local freight offices of that company. Mr. Bancroft has taken an active and honorable part in politics. He was a member of the East Portland City Council two years, was chairman of the East Portland Water Commission at the time of consolidation of the cities, and in 1892 was elected on the Republican ticket to the state senate, serving through two sessions.
BARKLEY, HON. HENRY L., of Woodburn, was born in Adams County, Indiana, March 19, 1858; was reared I Ohio, and came to Oregon in 1888, locating to Woodburn. He was a speaker in the stump in Ohio in 1884, and has made a reputation as a campaign orator since coming to Oregon. In 1894 he was elected to the legislature, and has again been nominated by the Republicans of Marion County. Mr. Barkley is a presiding elder of the United Bretheren Church.
BEACH, HON. S. C. [Editor inserted: S. Curtis Beach], of Portland, was born in Iowa in 1860. He became a printer at the age of fourteen. He established the Waco (Neb.) Star in 1878, the Stromburg (Neb.) Republican in 1880 and from 1884 to 1891 edited the Lakeview (Or.) Examiner. Since then he has lived in Portland, engaged in the printing business till 1895. He is now Superintendent of the Street-Cleaning department. Mr. Beach has been President of the Peninsular Club three years, and in 1894 was elected to legislature.
BEAN, HON. ROBERT S., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Yamhill County, November 28, 1854, but has been a resident of Lane County from an early age. He graduated from the Monmouth College in 1873, and from the University of Oregon in 1877. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar. He practiced at Eugene until elected Judge of the second district in 1882. He was re-elected in 1886, was elected Supreme Court Judge in 1890, and has again been nominated to the supreme bench.
BEEGLE, JOHN R., editor of the St. Helens Mist. Was born in Jefferson County Kansas, April 12, 1863, and came to Oregon in 1874. He has lived continuously in St. Helens, except the two years of 1893-94, when he was editor of the Hillsboro Independent. In 1894-5 he was president of the Oregon Press Association, and in 1893 was a delegate to the National Editorial Convention. He was delegate to the Grand Lodge, K. of P., in 1894 and 1895. He is an earnest and consistent Republican, and has frequently been a member of conventions, and was in 1894 president if the Young Men’s Republican Club of Hillsboro.
BENSON, HENRY I. [Editor inserted: Henry L. Benson], of Grant’s Pass, was born in Stockton, California, July 6, 1854, and came to Grant’s Pass in 1886. He was admitted to the California bar in 1877 and practiced law in San Jose two years. He taught school a year at Wilbur, and was three years at State Normal School at Drain before settling in Grant’s Pass as principal of the public school. In 1892 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, and again in 1894, and is the only Republican ever getting a majority for that office in Josephine County. In 1888 he was nominated for County Clerk, and this year is the nominee for legislature. He was a delegate to the Douglas County conventions of 1882, 1884 and 1886, and was chairman if the first two.
BENSON, FRANK W., of Roseburg, was born in Santa Clara County California, March 20, 1858. From 1864 to 1868 he lived in Portland, Oregon and then returned to California. In 1880 he again came to Oregon, locating in Douglas County, and engaging in teaching school. He was elected County Superintendent of Schools in 1882, and again in 1884. He served three years as clerk in the United States Land Office. In 1892 he was elected County Clerk, and was re-elected in 1894. He is a member of the Republican Club and was a delegate to the league convention in 1895.
BECKETT, C.W. [Editor inserted: Clyde Wallace Beckett], of Dallas, was born in Polk County Oregon, July 12, 1861, and has lived in the county ever since. He was a delegate to the county conventions of 1892 and 1894, and was elected Assessor of Polk County in 1892, which office he still holds.
BENTLEY, WILLIAM H., of Baker City, was born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, March 24, 1831, and came to Oregon in 1852. He spent ten years in Yamhill County, working as a carpenter, and in January 1863, went to Umatilla County, where he was appointed Deputy Sheriff. In 1865 he located in Baker County and engaged in mining, farming, etc. Mr. Bentley has upheld the Republican standard in a Democratic County for a third of a century. In 1870 he was the nominee for the Joint Representative, and in 1878 for Assessor. In 1892 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and again in 1894. He was a member of the county convention in 1868, 1970, 1882 and 1884, and was president if the convention in 1882.
BEAN, HENRY J., of Pendleton, was born at Bethel, Maine, November 13, 1853, and came to Oregon in June 1881, settling in Pendleton. He is a member of the club in that city, and was a delegate to the county conventions of 1888 to 1894 and the state convention of 1894. He was elected to the legislature in 1888. In 1890 he was made United States Commissioner, and in1895 was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court for the Eastern district.
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 179-181.
BARRETT, HON. C.A. [Editor inserted: Charles A. Barrett], of Athena, was born in Maine in 1852. He settled in Umatilla County in 1872, and followed stockraising until 1883, when he began a successful mercantile career in Athena. Mr. Barrett is president of the First National Bank of Athena. He has been twice elected a member of the City Council and School Board, and was elected Mayor in 1890. He is president of the Republican club.
BARIN, LOUIS T., of Portland, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, March 13, 1842. In 1858 he went to the gold mines of California, and in 1862 came to Oregon and soon enlisted in the First Oregon Cavalry and served three years in the Indian country. He then took up a claim near Oregon City and farmed and studied law. He was admitted in 1872. The same year he was elected to the legislature. In 1874 and 1875 he was elected to City Attorney of Oregon City, and in 1877 was chosen Mayor, serving two terms. In 1878 he was appointed Register of the United States Land Office and was reappointed in 1882. In 1886 he was elected to the state senate for four years. In 1888 he was chairman of the state central committee. President Harrison appointed him United States Marshal for four years. He is now practicing law in Portland.
BAKER, FRANK C., of Portland, was born in Multnomah County (then Washington County), Oregon, in 1854. In 1865 the family removed to La Grande, where Frank entered the office of the Mountain Sentinel and learned the printer’s trade. He then worked on the Baker City Herald, and the Silver City Avalanche and Boise City Statesman. He then returned to Portland, worked on the Evening Journal and became foreman successively of the Evening Telegram, Evening Bee and Rural Spirit. In 1881 the Multnomah Typographical Union indorsed him for State Printer, and he received the Republican nomination and was elected. He opened the first regular printing office in the capitol and performed his work so successfully that he was renominated by acclamation in 1890 and re-elected. He is an earnest Republican and liberal in support of many party measures.
BANCROFT, F. A., of Portland, was born in Granville, Ohio, in 1819, and came to California in 1869. In 1870 he made a tour of Europe. In 1873 he settled in Portland, and two years later entered the employ of the Oregon & California Railroad, now the Southern Pacific, and having charge of the extensive local freight offices of that company. Mr. Bancroft has taken an active and honorable part in politics. He was a member of the East Portland City Council two years, was chairman of the East Portland Water Commission at the time of consolidation of the cities, and in 1892 was elected on the Republican ticket to the state senate, serving through two sessions.
BARKLEY, HON. HENRY L., of Woodburn, was born in Adams County, Indiana, March 19, 1858; was reared I Ohio, and came to Oregon in 1888, locating to Woodburn. He was a speaker in the stump in Ohio in 1884, and has made a reputation as a campaign orator since coming to Oregon. In 1894 he was elected to the legislature, and has again been nominated by the Republicans of Marion County. Mr. Barkley is a presiding elder of the United Bretheren Church.
BEACH, HON. S. C. [Editor inserted: S. Curtis Beach], of Portland, was born in Iowa in 1860. He became a printer at the age of fourteen. He established the Waco (Neb.) Star in 1878, the Stromburg (Neb.) Republican in 1880 and from 1884 to 1891 edited the Lakeview (Or.) Examiner. Since then he has lived in Portland, engaged in the printing business till 1895. He is now Superintendent of the Street-Cleaning department. Mr. Beach has been President of the Peninsular Club three years, and in 1894 was elected to legislature.
BEAN, HON. ROBERT S., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Yamhill County, November 28, 1854, but has been a resident of Lane County from an early age. He graduated from the Monmouth College in 1873, and from the University of Oregon in 1877. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar. He practiced at Eugene until elected Judge of the second district in 1882. He was re-elected in 1886, was elected Supreme Court Judge in 1890, and has again been nominated to the supreme bench.
BEEGLE, JOHN R., editor of the St. Helens Mist. Was born in Jefferson County Kansas, April 12, 1863, and came to Oregon in 1874. He has lived continuously in St. Helens, except the two years of 1893-94, when he was editor of the Hillsboro Independent. In 1894-5 he was president of the Oregon Press Association, and in 1893 was a delegate to the National Editorial Convention. He was delegate to the Grand Lodge, K. of P., in 1894 and 1895. He is an earnest and consistent Republican, and has frequently been a member of conventions, and was in 1894 president if the Young Men’s Republican Club of Hillsboro.
BENSON, HENRY I. [Editor inserted: Henry L. Benson], of Grant’s Pass, was born in Stockton, California, July 6, 1854, and came to Grant’s Pass in 1886. He was admitted to the California bar in 1877 and practiced law in San Jose two years. He taught school a year at Wilbur, and was three years at State Normal School at Drain before settling in Grant’s Pass as principal of the public school. In 1892 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, and again in 1894, and is the only Republican ever getting a majority for that office in Josephine County. In 1888 he was nominated for County Clerk, and this year is the nominee for legislature. He was a delegate to the Douglas County conventions of 1882, 1884 and 1886, and was chairman if the first two.
BENSON, FRANK W., of Roseburg, was born in Santa Clara County California, March 20, 1858. From 1864 to 1868 he lived in Portland, Oregon and then returned to California. In 1880 he again came to Oregon, locating in Douglas County, and engaging in teaching school. He was elected County Superintendent of Schools in 1882, and again in 1884. He served three years as clerk in the United States Land Office. In 1892 he was elected County Clerk, and was re-elected in 1894. He is a member of the Republican Club and was a delegate to the league convention in 1895.
BECKETT, C.W. [Editor inserted: Clyde Wallace Beckett], of Dallas, was born in Polk County Oregon, July 12, 1861, and has lived in the county ever since. He was a delegate to the county conventions of 1892 and 1894, and was elected Assessor of Polk County in 1892, which office he still holds.
BENTLEY, WILLIAM H., of Baker City, was born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, March 24, 1831, and came to Oregon in 1852. He spent ten years in Yamhill County, working as a carpenter, and in January 1863, went to Umatilla County, where he was appointed Deputy Sheriff. In 1865 he located in Baker County and engaged in mining, farming, etc. Mr. Bentley has upheld the Republican standard in a Democratic County for a third of a century. In 1870 he was the nominee for the Joint Representative, and in 1878 for Assessor. In 1892 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and again in 1894. He was a member of the county convention in 1868, 1970, 1882 and 1884, and was president if the convention in 1882.
BEAN, HENRY J., of Pendleton, was born at Bethel, Maine, November 13, 1853, and came to Oregon in June 1881, settling in Pendleton. He is a member of the club in that city, and was a delegate to the county conventions of 1888 to 1894 and the state convention of 1894. He was elected to the legislature in 1888. In 1890 he was made United States Commissioner, and in1895 was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court for the Eastern district.
Oregon Republican League Spring Beach Cleanup
Oregon Republican League Spring Beach Cleanup
March 23rd, 2006
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Corner of NW 6th Avenue and Pacific Street
Debris bags, Truck, T-Shirts, coffee, tea & water provided
Check-in: Tony Larson, TonyLarson@aol.com
Note: Participation is "at your own risk", as we do find dead critters, rusted metal and other gross material. SOLV is operating in the area this weekend as well. As this is the second event that was scheduled on the same weekend, in the future, we may co-register with SOLV, to better coordinate. If another area of the coast works better for you,.. not a problem in the least. Of course, you can sign up with the local SOLV area chief for more organized endeavors all along the coast,.. we just ask that you let us know that you're out, how many folks are with you and approximately how much material you recover.
To review the SOLV site: http://www.solv.org
March 23rd, 2006
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Corner of NW 6th Avenue and Pacific Street
Debris bags, Truck, T-Shirts, coffee, tea & water provided
Check-in: Tony Larson, TonyLarson@aol.com
Note: Participation is "at your own risk", as we do find dead critters, rusted metal and other gross material. SOLV is operating in the area this weekend as well. As this is the second event that was scheduled on the same weekend, in the future, we may co-register with SOLV, to better coordinate. If another area of the coast works better for you,.. not a problem in the least. Of course, you can sign up with the local SOLV area chief for more organized endeavors all along the coast,.. we just ask that you let us know that you're out, how many folks are with you and approximately how much material you recover.
To review the SOLV site: http://www.solv.org
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Advancing on all fronts, and narrowing the gap...
I'd like to thank everyone that aided the Oregon Republican League, in taking our highly successful Douglas county voter registration effort to Lincoln and Tillamook counties, this past year. Focusing on the ORP's compelling story, coupled with our dedication to data directed outcomes, really made the difference. We truly made tremendous strides. "Next Steps" are fast approaching!!
Voter registration statistics for the state of Oregon: December 2004 to December 2005
December 2004:
http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/votreg/dec04.pdf
Democrat 819,587
Republican 757,396
Libertarian 16,590
Pacific Green 13,628
Socialist 272
Constitution 2,773
Nonaffiliated 469,414
Other 37,377
Total 2,117,037
December 2005
http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/votreg/dec05.pdf
Democrat 792,176
Republican 737,012
Libertarian 16,200
Pacific Green 13,009
Socialist 275
Constitution 2,991
Nonaffiliated 448,575
Other 37,382
Total 2,047,620
Voter registration statistics for the state of Oregon: December 2004 to December 2005
December 2004:
http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/votreg/dec04.pdf
Democrat 819,587
Republican 757,396
Libertarian 16,590
Pacific Green 13,628
Socialist 272
Constitution 2,773
Nonaffiliated 469,414
Other 37,377
Total 2,117,037
December 2005
http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/votreg/dec05.pdf
Democrat 792,176
Republican 737,012
Libertarian 16,200
Pacific Green 13,009
Socialist 275
Constitution 2,991
Nonaffiliated 448,575
Other 37,382
Total 2,047,620
Monday, March 20, 2006
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Oregon Republican League: History 101
Every Wednesday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Click on the head link above, to visit more of our listings at genealogy.com. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.
Oregon Republican League:Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 176-178.
BAYLEY, DR. J. R. [Editor inserted: James Riley Bayley], a physician of Newport, was born in Clark County, Ohio, in 1819. He graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1844. He practiced in Ohio till 1855, when he came to Oregon and located in Corvallis. He was one of the original Republicans of the state. He was a member of the territorial council in 1856 and 1857, and of the state senate in 1866 and 1868. He was Judge of Benton County two terms, and Supervisor of Internal Revenue from 1869 to 1873. Dr. Bayley is president of the Newport Club.
BARRETT, HON. WILLIAM N., of Hillsboro, was born in Washington County, Oregon November 24, 1855. He graduated in 1879. For ten years before and after graduating he taught school. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar. In 1882 he was elected to the legislature, and again in 1890. For seven years he was Deputy District Attorney, and in 1892 was elected District Attorney, and again in 1894. He was City Recorder for seven years. He has been a member of conventions and league meetings.
BAYER, J. C. [Editor inserted: Joseph C. Bayer], of Portland, was born in Santa Rosa, California, in 1855, and was educated in San Francisco and Oakland. He learned the metal cornice and roofing trade, and in 1879 came to Oregon and established himself in that business in Portland, and has built up a large business. He organized the Builders’ Exchange in 1882, and was its president for two years. He has been a consistent and active Republican and is now a nominee for the legislature.
BAKER, M. [Editor inserted: Micajah Baker], of la Grande, was born in Kentucky, March 29, 1831, and moved to Oregon in 1862. He settled in Union County, and is a lawyer by profession. He has been a Republican from the foundation of the party, and in 1860 was a delegate from Ohio to the national convention. He has repeatedly been a delegate to county and state conventions during his thirty-four years of residence in Oregon; also several times chairman of the county central committee and member of the state central committee. He was a delegate to the National Republican League in 1895.
BARNES, F. S.[Editor inserted: Friend S. Barnes], of Forest Grove, was born in Lewis County, New York, October 17, 1839, and came to Oregon in 1882, locating in Portland, subsequently moving to Forest Grove to engage in the jewelry business. He cast his first vote for Lincoln in 1860, served through the war, and has always been an earnest Republican. He was a delegate to the county, district and state conventions in 1894, and the league meetings in 1894-95-96.
BARTLETT, EDWARD W., of La Grande, is one of the most prominent lawyers and Republican leaders of Union County, and has for four years been president of the La Grande Republican Club. He was born at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, December 21, 1863, and came to Oregon in the spring of 1889. He was a delegate to the county convention in 1890 and 1892, and to the league in 1895. He was appointed Attorney for the State Board of Commissioners for the sale of school and university lands. Mr. Bartlett is an active Republican, and an influential campaign worker and speaker.
BALL, CHAUNCEY, of Portland, was born at Albion, Erie County, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1827, and enjoyed the educational facilities of those times. At the age of sixteen he went to Commouth, Ashtabula County, Ohio, from there to Wisconsin, and thence to Michigan. For ten more years thereafter he followed a seafaring life, and in 1851 made his way to California, engaging in mining and following the sea for seven years. In 1858 he went to British Columbia, and in 1859 came to Oregon, where he has resided ever since. For three years he was a Deputy Marshal under Henry L. Hoyt. For ten years he was a member of the Portland fire department, and was secretary of the department three terms. He was engineer of the new custom-house and postoffice fifteen years. Up to March 1895, he was engaged in farming, but was then elected president and business manager if the Multnomah Fruitgrowers’ Union, which position he still holds, having been the chief promoter of the organization. Mr. Ball is an old Lincoln Republican and an active worker. He has been chosen delegate to two county and two state conventions, and was one of the organizers of the party in the state and a constant worker for it ever since.
BARLOW, CASS U. [Editor inserted: Cassius Union Barlow], of Barlow, was born at that place October 19, 1858, and moved to Oregon City when a child. From 1870 to 1880 he attended school at Portland and Monmouth, and then became a member of the firm of Shepard, Jaycox & Co., at Walla Walla, Washington, for two years, and also engaged in wheat growing. Later he acted as traveling agent of the Portland firm of Staver & Walker for five years. He then became manager of the Seattle branch and made trips East. Since 1889 he has lived at Barlow, and is a member of the Barlow-Will Mercantile Company. In 1889 he attended the national league convention at Baltimore as proxy for M. C. George. He is secretary of the Barlow Republican Club, and has represented the club in the league.
BARLOW, WILLIAM, of Barlow, was a member of the first Republican convention in Oregon, and has been an earnest party worker ever since. He was born on a farm in Indiana in1822, and has made farming his business through life. He was one of the pioneers of the state, and has taken an active part in the moulding its destinies. He has filled numerous offices of trust, such as Justice of the Peace, County Assessor, County Commissioner, etc., but has been too busy a man to seek legislative honors, though he has given his time to conventions freely. He is an earnest advocate of the coinage of both gold and silver without restriction.
BAKER, JOSEPH E., of La Grande, was born in Van Buren County, Ohio, February 20, 1854, and came to Oregon in 1862 settling in Union County, and is engaged in the practice if law in La Grande. He is a member of the La Grande Republican Club, and has taken an active part in the party for years. He was a delegate to the county convention in 1886 and 1888, the state convention in 1886, and the league in 1894 and 1895. In 1890 to 1894 he was chairman of the county central committee.
BAYARD, C., E., of The Dalles, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849, where he lived until 1876, when he went to San Francisco. In 1880 he came to Oregon and settled at The Dalles. He was County Assessor in 1883-84, Deputy County Clerk in 1885-86, and during Harrison’s administration was special agent of the Indian service. Since then he has been special agent of the land department. He has been a Republican since boyhood.
BAKER, COLONEL EDWARD DICKERSON, first Republican senator from Oregon, was born in London, England, February 24, 1811. He was four years of age when his family came to America and located in Philadelphia. He was early apprenticed to weaver, but, his father being an educated man and a teacher, young baker did not lack for mental training. At the age of fourteen he accompanied the family to Illinois, settling in the Wabash valley, but soon crossing the state in to Belleville. Here, young Baker won the favor of Governor Edwards and had access to his fine library, and stored his mind with the gems of literature. At the age of eighteen he went to St. Lois to find employment, and drove a dray. A little later he began the study of law at Carrollton, Illinois, in the office of Judge Caverly, at the same time serving as Deputy County Clerk. Before he was of age he had secured a license to practice law. In 1832 he served as a private in the Black Hawk war. In 1845 he was elected to congress, being the only Whig from the state of Illinois. The next year he raised a regiment for the Mexican was and served with distinction until its close. Later he went to California, and, with the murdered Senator Broderick, fought bitterly the pro-slavery Democratic rulers of the state. So great a reputation as an orator did he make, that the first Republican state convention held in Oregon decided to invite him to come north to stump the state. A little he came to Oregon and charmed and fired all with his eloquent pleas for liberty and union, and in 1860 was elected the first Republican to represent the state in the United States Senate. He went to Washington when treason was plotting openly, and at once became a commanding figure in the senate, his matchless oratory and fiery denunciation of traitors compelling all to yield to him the first place in debate. When Sumpter was fired upon he went to Philadelphia and recruited the “California” regiment, of which he became colonel. He divided his time between his senatorial and military duties, and it was dressed in his uniform and after arriving hastily in the senate that he delivered that masterly, impassioned, extemporaneous reply to a treasonable speech just made by a Southern senator, which was one of the classics of the literature of liberty and popular government. A few months later , at the battle of Ball’s Bluff, October 21, 1861, while gallantly leading his brigade, he was killed, yielding up his life for the cause of liberty, in whose defense his voice has been raised for a quarter of a century.
Oregon Republican League:Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 176-178.
BAYLEY, DR. J. R. [Editor inserted: James Riley Bayley], a physician of Newport, was born in Clark County, Ohio, in 1819. He graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1844. He practiced in Ohio till 1855, when he came to Oregon and located in Corvallis. He was one of the original Republicans of the state. He was a member of the territorial council in 1856 and 1857, and of the state senate in 1866 and 1868. He was Judge of Benton County two terms, and Supervisor of Internal Revenue from 1869 to 1873. Dr. Bayley is president of the Newport Club.
BARRETT, HON. WILLIAM N., of Hillsboro, was born in Washington County, Oregon November 24, 1855. He graduated in 1879. For ten years before and after graduating he taught school. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar. In 1882 he was elected to the legislature, and again in 1890. For seven years he was Deputy District Attorney, and in 1892 was elected District Attorney, and again in 1894. He was City Recorder for seven years. He has been a member of conventions and league meetings.
BAYER, J. C. [Editor inserted: Joseph C. Bayer], of Portland, was born in Santa Rosa, California, in 1855, and was educated in San Francisco and Oakland. He learned the metal cornice and roofing trade, and in 1879 came to Oregon and established himself in that business in Portland, and has built up a large business. He organized the Builders’ Exchange in 1882, and was its president for two years. He has been a consistent and active Republican and is now a nominee for the legislature.
BAKER, M. [Editor inserted: Micajah Baker], of la Grande, was born in Kentucky, March 29, 1831, and moved to Oregon in 1862. He settled in Union County, and is a lawyer by profession. He has been a Republican from the foundation of the party, and in 1860 was a delegate from Ohio to the national convention. He has repeatedly been a delegate to county and state conventions during his thirty-four years of residence in Oregon; also several times chairman of the county central committee and member of the state central committee. He was a delegate to the National Republican League in 1895.
BARNES, F. S.[Editor inserted: Friend S. Barnes], of Forest Grove, was born in Lewis County, New York, October 17, 1839, and came to Oregon in 1882, locating in Portland, subsequently moving to Forest Grove to engage in the jewelry business. He cast his first vote for Lincoln in 1860, served through the war, and has always been an earnest Republican. He was a delegate to the county, district and state conventions in 1894, and the league meetings in 1894-95-96.
BARTLETT, EDWARD W., of La Grande, is one of the most prominent lawyers and Republican leaders of Union County, and has for four years been president of the La Grande Republican Club. He was born at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, December 21, 1863, and came to Oregon in the spring of 1889. He was a delegate to the county convention in 1890 and 1892, and to the league in 1895. He was appointed Attorney for the State Board of Commissioners for the sale of school and university lands. Mr. Bartlett is an active Republican, and an influential campaign worker and speaker.
BALL, CHAUNCEY, of Portland, was born at Albion, Erie County, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1827, and enjoyed the educational facilities of those times. At the age of sixteen he went to Commouth, Ashtabula County, Ohio, from there to Wisconsin, and thence to Michigan. For ten more years thereafter he followed a seafaring life, and in 1851 made his way to California, engaging in mining and following the sea for seven years. In 1858 he went to British Columbia, and in 1859 came to Oregon, where he has resided ever since. For three years he was a Deputy Marshal under Henry L. Hoyt. For ten years he was a member of the Portland fire department, and was secretary of the department three terms. He was engineer of the new custom-house and postoffice fifteen years. Up to March 1895, he was engaged in farming, but was then elected president and business manager if the Multnomah Fruitgrowers’ Union, which position he still holds, having been the chief promoter of the organization. Mr. Ball is an old Lincoln Republican and an active worker. He has been chosen delegate to two county and two state conventions, and was one of the organizers of the party in the state and a constant worker for it ever since.
BARLOW, CASS U. [Editor inserted: Cassius Union Barlow], of Barlow, was born at that place October 19, 1858, and moved to Oregon City when a child. From 1870 to 1880 he attended school at Portland and Monmouth, and then became a member of the firm of Shepard, Jaycox & Co., at Walla Walla, Washington, for two years, and also engaged in wheat growing. Later he acted as traveling agent of the Portland firm of Staver & Walker for five years. He then became manager of the Seattle branch and made trips East. Since 1889 he has lived at Barlow, and is a member of the Barlow-Will Mercantile Company. In 1889 he attended the national league convention at Baltimore as proxy for M. C. George. He is secretary of the Barlow Republican Club, and has represented the club in the league.
BARLOW, WILLIAM, of Barlow, was a member of the first Republican convention in Oregon, and has been an earnest party worker ever since. He was born on a farm in Indiana in1822, and has made farming his business through life. He was one of the pioneers of the state, and has taken an active part in the moulding its destinies. He has filled numerous offices of trust, such as Justice of the Peace, County Assessor, County Commissioner, etc., but has been too busy a man to seek legislative honors, though he has given his time to conventions freely. He is an earnest advocate of the coinage of both gold and silver without restriction.
BAKER, JOSEPH E., of La Grande, was born in Van Buren County, Ohio, February 20, 1854, and came to Oregon in 1862 settling in Union County, and is engaged in the practice if law in La Grande. He is a member of the La Grande Republican Club, and has taken an active part in the party for years. He was a delegate to the county convention in 1886 and 1888, the state convention in 1886, and the league in 1894 and 1895. In 1890 to 1894 he was chairman of the county central committee.
BAYARD, C., E., of The Dalles, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849, where he lived until 1876, when he went to San Francisco. In 1880 he came to Oregon and settled at The Dalles. He was County Assessor in 1883-84, Deputy County Clerk in 1885-86, and during Harrison’s administration was special agent of the Indian service. Since then he has been special agent of the land department. He has been a Republican since boyhood.
BAKER, COLONEL EDWARD DICKERSON, first Republican senator from Oregon, was born in London, England, February 24, 1811. He was four years of age when his family came to America and located in Philadelphia. He was early apprenticed to weaver, but, his father being an educated man and a teacher, young baker did not lack for mental training. At the age of fourteen he accompanied the family to Illinois, settling in the Wabash valley, but soon crossing the state in to Belleville. Here, young Baker won the favor of Governor Edwards and had access to his fine library, and stored his mind with the gems of literature. At the age of eighteen he went to St. Lois to find employment, and drove a dray. A little later he began the study of law at Carrollton, Illinois, in the office of Judge Caverly, at the same time serving as Deputy County Clerk. Before he was of age he had secured a license to practice law. In 1832 he served as a private in the Black Hawk war. In 1845 he was elected to congress, being the only Whig from the state of Illinois. The next year he raised a regiment for the Mexican was and served with distinction until its close. Later he went to California, and, with the murdered Senator Broderick, fought bitterly the pro-slavery Democratic rulers of the state. So great a reputation as an orator did he make, that the first Republican state convention held in Oregon decided to invite him to come north to stump the state. A little he came to Oregon and charmed and fired all with his eloquent pleas for liberty and union, and in 1860 was elected the first Republican to represent the state in the United States Senate. He went to Washington when treason was plotting openly, and at once became a commanding figure in the senate, his matchless oratory and fiery denunciation of traitors compelling all to yield to him the first place in debate. When Sumpter was fired upon he went to Philadelphia and recruited the “California” regiment, of which he became colonel. He divided his time between his senatorial and military duties, and it was dressed in his uniform and after arriving hastily in the senate that he delivered that masterly, impassioned, extemporaneous reply to a treasonable speech just made by a Southern senator, which was one of the classics of the literature of liberty and popular government. A few months later , at the battle of Ball’s Bluff, October 21, 1861, while gallantly leading his brigade, he was killed, yielding up his life for the cause of liberty, in whose defense his voice has been raised for a quarter of a century.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Monday, March 13, 2006
OUR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES, FOR PARTISAN OFFICE
Our Republican candidates, for partisan office. Please click on the head link, for redirection to the online list at the Secretary of State's office.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 1ST DISTRICT
Derrick Kitts (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 1946
HILLSBORO, OR 97123
(503)312-8146(H), (503)640-4089(W)
Date filed: Feb 15, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: derrick@derrickitts.com
Web-Site: http://www.derrickitts.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 2ND DISTRICT
Paul A. Daghlian (REPUBLICAN)
1850 NW LARCH AVE
CORVALLIS, OR 97330
(541)760-8662(H), (541)760-8662(W)
Date filed: Apr 18, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: pauldaghlian@yahoo.com
Web-Site: http://www.daghlianforcongress.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 2ND DISTRICT
Greg Walden (REPUBLICAN)
1504 SHERMAN AVE
HOOD RIVER, OR 97031
(541)386-2867(H), (202)225-6730(W)
Date filed: Mar 01, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)387-5378
E-Mail: greg@waldenforcongress.com
Web-Site: http://www.waldenforcongress.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 4TH DISTRICT
Monica Johnson (REPUBLICAN)
1025 SKIPPER
EUGENE, OR 97404
(541)689-3102(H), (541)461-7777(W)
Date filed: Feb 23, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: wot_@hotmail.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 4TH DISTRICT
Jim Feldkamp (REPUBLICAN)
4257 BARGER DR #353
EUGENE, OR 97402
(541)342-5478(H), (541)607-6614(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)607-6714
E-Mail: info@jimfeldkamp.com
Web-Site: http://www.jimfeldkamp.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 5TH DISTRICT
Mike Erickson (REPUBLICAN)
13800 STAMPHER RD
LAKE OSWEGO, OR 97034
(503)367-5505(H)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)635-1043
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
GOVERNOR
David W. Beem (REPUBLICAN)
1919 FAIRGROUNDS RD SE #19
SALEM, OR 97301
(503)365-1945(H), (971)240-2680(W)
Date filed: Jun 17, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: davidwbeem@email.com
Web-Site: `
GOVERNOR
William E. Spidal (REPUBLICAN)
40521 ANDERSON RD
NEHALEM, OR 97131
(503)939-1540(H)
Date filed: Aug 03, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: http://www.billspidal.org
GOVERNOR
Kevin Mannix (REPUBLICAN)
2007 STATE ST
SALEM, OR 97301
(503)371-8145(H), (503)364-1913(W)
Date filed: Nov 07, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)362-0513
E-Mail: maureen@mannixfororegon.org
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
GOVERNOR
Jason A. Atkinson (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 1965
WILSONVILLE, OR 97070
(541)664-9878(H), (541)955-0911(W)
Date filed: Jan 27, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: info@atkinsonforgovernor.com
Web-Site: http://www.atkinsonforgovernor.com
GOVERNOR
W. Ames Curtright (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 1350
JEFFERSON, OR 97352
(503)209-7388(H), (503)743-4905(W)
Date filed: Feb 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)743-2719
E-Mail: info@amesfororegongov.com
Web-Site: http://www.amesfororegongov.com
GOVERNOR
Gordon Leitch (REPUBLICAN)
885 SW RED HILLS DR
DUNDEE, OR 97115
(503)554-9964(H), (503)296-6200(W)
Date filed: Feb 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: http://www.leitch4govr.com
GOVERNOR
Ron Saxton (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 163
PORTLAND, OR 97207
(503)235-7091(H), (503)224-2006(W)
Date filed: Feb 21, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)226-0079
E-Mail: info@votesaxton.com
Web-Site: http://www.votesaxton.com
GOVERNOR
Bob Leonard Forthan (REPUBLICAN)
6304 NE 23RD
PORTLAND, OR 97211
(503)287-6356(H), (503)287-1381(W)
Date filed: Mar 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 3RD DISTRICT
Lynn Aiello (REPUBLICAN)
4732 CLOUDCREST DR.
MEDFORD, OR 97504
(541)245-9336(H)
Date filed: Mar 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: lynn@radioproducts.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 4TH DISTRICT
Bill Eddie (REPUBLICAN)
830 CREST
EUGENE, OR 97405
(541)684-8500(H)
Date filed: Feb 10, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)434-2483
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 6TH DISTRICT
Renee Lindsey (REPUBLICAN)
32779 SANDRIDGE RD
LEBANON, OR 97355
(541)451-3035(H), (541)967-3340(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: nogotname@centurytel.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 7TH DISTRICT
Jim Torrey (REPUBLICAN)
3593 RIVER POINTE DR
EUGENE, OR 97408
(541)687-7220(H), (541)968-2596(W)
Date filed: Sep 13, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)683-6063
E-Mail: jimtorrey@comcast.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 8TH DISTRICT
Frank Morse (REPUBLICAN)
3616 NW EAGLE VIEW DR
ALBANY, OR 97321
(541)928-4874(H), (503)986-1708(W)
Date filed: Nov 10, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)928-0525
E-Mail: flmorse@comcast.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 10TH DISTRICT
Sarah Arcune (REPUBLICAN)
1842 WILDING PLACE
STAYTON, OR 97383
(503)769-7512(H)
Date filed: Nov 23, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Pending
Withdrawn: Nov 30, 2005
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 10TH DISTRICT
Jackie Winters (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 126
SALEM, OR 97308
(503)581-9114(H), (503)986-1710(W)
Date filed: Dec 06, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: marcwinters@comcast.net
Web-Site: http://www.jackiewinters.com
STATE SENATOR, 11TH DISTRICT
Jared Thatcher (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 9094
BROOKS, OR 97305
(503)485-0598(H), (503)390-0626(W)
Date filed: Mar 03, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: jared@votejared.com
Web-Site: http://www.votejared.com
STATE SENATOR, 13TH DISTRICT
Larry George (REPUBLICAN)
16785 SW PARRETT MTN RD
SHERWOOD, OR 97140
(503)925-9650(H), (503)341-8546(W)
Date filed: Aug 09, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)538-6001
E-Mail: larrygeorge@teleport.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 13TH DISTRICT
Charles Starr (REPUBLICAN)
8330 SW RIVER RD
HILLSBORO, OR 97123
(503)642-2024(H), (503)986-1713(W)
Date filed: Oct 04, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: kstarr@charlesstarr.org
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified
STATE SENATOR, 15TH DISTRICT
Bruce Starr (REPUBLICAN)
22115 NW IMBRIE DR #290
HILLSBORO, OR 97124
(503)681-9823(H), (503)310-7500(W)
Date filed: Jan 12, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: senator@brucestarr.org
Web-Site: http://www.brucestarr.org
STATE SENATOR, 16TH DISTRICT
Don Fell (REPUBLICAN)
POBX 1112
ASTORIA, OR 97103
(503)325-9696(H)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: dmfell@msn.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 19TH DISTRICT
David Newell (REPUBLICAN)
19635 OLD RIVER DR
WEST LINN, OR 97068
Date filed: Mar 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 20TH DISTRICT
Thomas F. Lemons (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 2993
OREGON CITY, OR 97045
(503)710-0782(H), (503)710-0782(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: tommylem@msn.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 24TH DISTRICT
T.J. Reilly (REPUBLICAN)
10300 SE CRESTHILL RD
PORTLAND, OR 97266
(503)257-3720(H), (503)656-6688(W)
Date filed: Mar 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)655-3675
E-Mail: sdas88@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 26TH DISTRICT
Carol York (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 918
HOOD RIVER, OR 97031
(541)386-4665(H), (541)386-7440(W)
Date filed: Dec 13, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)386-7480
E-Mail: carol@gorgepublishing.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 1ST DISTRICT
Wayne Krieger (REPUBLICAN)
95702 SKYVIEW RANCH RD
GOLD BEACH, OR 97444
(541)247-7990(H), (541)247-7990(W)
Date filed: Jan 03, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)247-7154
E-Mail: wkrieger@harborside.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 2ND DISTRICT
Susan Morgan (REPUBLICAN)
P.O. BOX 2223
MYRTLE CREEK, OR 97457
(541)784-3503(H), (541)784-3503(W)
Date filed: Jan 25, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)784-3503
E-Mail: dist2@pioneer-net.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 3RD DISTRICT
Ron Maurer (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 2061GRANTS PASS, OR 97528-2061
(541)476-7098(H), (541)582-8899(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)582-2112
E-Mail: electronmaurer@yahoo.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 4TH DISTRICT
Dennis Richardson (REPUBLICAN)
55 SOUTH 5TH ST.
CENTRAL POINT, OR 97502
(541)665-9203(H), (541)664-6624(W)
Date filed: Oct 05, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)664-6625
E-Mail: dennis@dennisrichardson.org
Web-Site: http://www.dennisrichardson.org
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 6TH DISTRICT
Sal Esquivel (REPUBLICAN)
28 QUINCE ST
MEDFORD, OR 97501
(541)494-1511(H), (541)494-4944(W)
Date filed: Nov 10, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)494-4945
E-Mail: sal@fognot.co
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 7TH DISTRICT
Bruce Hanna (REPUBLICAN)
612 NW CECIL AVE
ROSEBURG, OR 97470
(541)440-9004(H), (541)672-6596(W)
Date filed: Oct 06, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)672-5278
E-Mail: bhcoke@rosenet.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 8TH DISTRICT
Andrew Hill (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 24729
EUGENE, OR 97402
(541)343-2306(H), (541)343-2306(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: kdxman357@comcast.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 9TH DISTRICT
Al Pearn (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 457
FLORENCE, OR 97439
(541)997-1863(H), (541)997-9700(W)
Date filed: Oct 13, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)997-9700
E-Mail: al@alpearn.com
Web-Site: al@alpearn.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 10TH DISTRICT
Alan Brown (REPUBLICAN)
1155 SW COAST HWY
NEWPORT, OR 97365
(541)265-8060(H), (541)265-6605(W)
Date filed: Jan 17, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)265-6655
E-Mail: alan_brown@charter.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 12TH DISTRICT
Bill Lioio (REPUBLICAN)
747 KELLY BOULEVARD
SPRINGFIELD, OR 97477
(541)726-9940(H), (541)726-9940(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)726-9770
E-Mail: bill_lioio@msn.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 13TH DISTRICT
Thomas Ray Albright (REPUBLICAN)
2511 WILLAKENZIE RD #3
EUGENE, OR 97401
(541)343-2471(H), (503)951-3294(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: talbrig1@uoregon.edu
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 14TH DISTRICT
Debi Farr (REPUBLICAN)
4257 BARGER DR. #272
EUGENE, OR 97402
(541)461-4091(H), (503)986-1414(W)
Date filed: Dec 12, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: farrforourfuture@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 15TH DISTRICT
Andy Olson (REPUBLICAN)
P O BOX 891
ALBANY, OR 97321
(541)967-0393(H), (541)967-6576(W)
Date filed: Oct 03, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)967-6576
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 16TH DISTRICT
Robin M. Brown (REPUBLICAN)
3077 NW THISTLE PL
CORVALLIS, OR 97330
(541)754-6507(H)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: redrobinbrown@comcast.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 17TH DISTRICT
Jeff Kropf (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 2526
SUBLIMITY, OR 97355
(541)729-6229(H), (503)986-1417(W)
Date filed: Feb 17, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)747-8910
E-Mail: jeff@jefkropf.com
Web-Site: http://www.jeffkropf.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 18TH DISTRICT
Mac Sumner (REPUBLICAN)
1442 MEADOWLAWN PL
MOLALLA, OR 97038
(503)829-8861(H)
Date filed: Oct 17, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)829-8862
E-Mail: mac@molalla.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 18TH DISTRICT
James L. Buchal (REPUBLICAN)
2000 S.W. FIRST AVENUE, SUITE 320
PORTLAND, OR 97201
(503)651-3119(H), (503)227-1011(W)
Date filed: Feb 14, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)227-1034
E-Mail: counsel@buchal.com
Web-Site: http://www.buchal.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 18TH DISTRICT
Dale Settje (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 224
MOLALLA, OR 97038
(503)829-2086(H), (503)829-7193(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)829-7193
E-Mail: drsettje@gmail.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 19TH DISTRICT
Kevin Cameron (REPUBLICAN)
4742 LIBERTY RD S #236
SALEM, OR 97306
(503)399-8011(H), (503)315-5712(W)
Date filed: Sep 20, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)362-2542
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 20TH DISTRICT
Vicki Berger (REPUBLICAN)
805 KINGWOOD DR NW
SALEM, OR 97304
(503)581-9969(H), (503)986-1420(W)
Date filed: Nov 30, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: vicki@berger.net
Web-Site: http://www.vicki.berger.net
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 21ST DISTRICT
Billy Dalto (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 943
SALEM, OR 97308
(503)363-1271(H), (503)363-1271(W)
Date filed: Oct 27, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)391-4393
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 22ND DISTRICT
Carl Wieneke (REPUBLICAN)
1208 INDEPENDENCE CT
WOODBURN, OR 97071
(503)981-5484(H), (503)351-8257(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)981-5485
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 23RD DISTRICT
Brian Boquist (REPUBLICAN)
17080 BUTLER HILL ROAD
DALLAS, OR 97338
(503)623-4426(H), (503)589-1437(W)
Date filed: Oct 18, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)623-7665
E-Mail: boquist@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 24TH DISTRICT
Donna G. Nelson (REPUBLICAN)
2150 ST ANDREWS DR.
MCMINNVILLE, OR 97128
(503)472-7446(H), (503)472-3015(W)
Date filed: Feb 22, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)435-2330
E-Mail: grit@onlinemac.com
Web-Site: http://www.donnanelsonfororegon.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 25TH DISTRICT
Kim Thatcher (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 9111
SALEM, OR 97305
(503)932-1291(W)
Date filed: Nov 03, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: kim@kimthatcher.net
Web-Site: http://www.kimthatcher.net
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 26TH DISTRICT
Jerry Krummel (REPUBLICAN)
7544 SW ROANOKE DR
WILSONVILLE, OR 97070
(503)682-7872(H), (503)394-4315(W)
Date filed: Feb 15, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)570-2865
E-Mail: jerry.krummel@verizon.net
Web-Site: http://www.JerryKrummel.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 27TH DISTRICT
Domonic Biggi (REPUBLICAN)
7905 SW CEDAR ST #42
PORTLAND, OR 97225
(503)869-2101(H), (503)924-4039(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)924-4010
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 28TH DISTRICT
Eldon Derville-Teer (REPUBLICAN)
PMB #164
18645 SW FARMINGTON RD
ALOHA, OR 97007
(503)356-8961(H), (971)227-9084(W)
Date filed: Apr 21, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)356-8961
E-Mail: eldon@eldondervilleteer.com
Web-Site: http://www.eldondervilleteer.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 28TH DISTRICT
Christopher Mentrum (REPUBLICAN)
6322 SW VINWOOD TERR
BEAVERTON, OR 97007
(503)430-5442(H)
Date filed: Jul 24, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: christophermentrum@yahoo.com
Web-Site: http://www.geocities.com/christophermentrum/28.html
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 29TH DISTRICT
Barry S. Lee (REPUBLICAN)
1430 PRIMROSE LN
FOREST GROVE, OR 97116
(503)357-9404(H), (503)473-7258(W)
Date filed: Feb 19, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: barlee517@hotmail.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 29TH DISTRICT
Terry Rilling (REPUBLICAN)
290 N 11TH AVE
CORNELIUS, OR 97113
(503)793-3500(H)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 30TH DISTRICT
Everett Curry (REPUBLICAN)
1546 NE GREENSWORD DR
HILLSBORO, OR 97124-6139
(503)640-1088(H), (503)640-1088(W)
Date filed: Jan 26, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)640-1088
E-Mail: evcurry@gmail.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 31ST DISTRICT
Mike Kocher (REPUBLICAN)
31741 DUTCH CANYON RD
SCAPPOOSE, OR 97056
(503)543-7479(H), (503)543-0111(W)
Date filed: Mar 02, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 32ND DISTRICT
Norm Myers (REPUBLICAN)
1602 SECOND ST
TILLAMOOK, OR 97141
(503)842-5867(H), (503)842-2882(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)842-3125
E-Mail: pca@oregoncoast.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 33RD DISTRICT
Mark Eggleston (REPUBLICAN)
1190 NW 119TH PL
PORTLAND, OR 97229
(503)644-7702(H), (503)807-4337(W)
Date filed: Jan 30, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: eggleston.mark@gmail.com
Web-Site: none
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 34TH DISTRICT
Joan Draper (REPUBLICAN)
1783 NW 143RD AVE #21
PORTLAND, OR 97229-4358
(503)617-1549(H), (503)329-1316(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 35TH DISTRICT
Shirley Parsons (REPUBLICAN)
12254 SW GARDEN PL
TIGARD, OR 97223
(503)352-3685(W)
Date filed: Dec 05, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)598-1192
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 37TH DISTRICT
Scott Bruun (REPUBLICAN)
23069 BLAND CIRCLE
WEST LINN, OR 97068
(503)650-9912(H), (503)866-8818(W)
Date filed: Oct 17, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)230-0914
E-Mail: scottbruun@yahoo.com
Web-Site: http://www.joinscott.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 38TH DISTRICT
Fred Bremner (REPUBLICAN)
27 TOUCHSTONE
LAKE OSWEGO, OR 97035
(503)635-3319(H)
Date filed: Oct 29, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)636-6527
E-Mail: fbremner@msn.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 39TH DISTRICT
Wayne Scott (REPUBLICAN)
1988 NE 19TH AVE
CANBY, OR 97013
(503)266-3837(H), (503)266-7589(W)
Date filed: Oct 03, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)266-5105
E-Mail: wayne-scott@msn.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 44TH DISTRICT
Jay Kushner (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 83143
PORTLAND, OR 97283
(503)701-8901(H), (503)283-8337(W)
Date filed: Mar 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: jaykushner@gmail.com
Web-Site: http://www.GoodGovernmentOregon.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 46TH DISTRICT
William (Bill) C. Cornett (REPUBLICAN)
1017 S.E. 50TH. AVENUE
PORTLAND, OR 97215-2603
(503)232-4743(H), (503)860-8698(W)
Date filed: Feb 08, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)232-4743
E-Mail: williamccornett@hotmail.com
Web-Site: None
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 47TH DISTRICT
Bruce McCain (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 30705
PORTLAND, OR 97294-3705
(503)988-4325(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)257-7320
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 48TH DISTRICT
Dave Mowry (REPUBLICAN)
13913 SE HAMPSHIRE CT
CLACKAMAS, OR 97015
(503)658-0711(H), (503)577-3904(W)
Date filed: Nov 22, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: electdavemowry@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 49TH DISTRICT
Karen Minnis (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 790
FAIRVIEW, OR 97024
(503)986-1200(W)
Date filed: Oct 20, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)491-8672
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 50TH DISTRICT
John Lim (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 1616
GRESHAM, OR 97030
(503)667-3647(H), (503)238-9719(W)
Date filed: Oct 18, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)665-0864
E-Mail: senatorjohnlim@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 51ST DISTRICT
Linda Flores (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 55
CLACKAMAS, OR 97015
(503)722-1419(W)
Date filed: Nov 30, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)722-1294
E-Mail: floresteam@aol.com
Web-Site: http://www.LindaFlores.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 52ND DISTRICT
Patti Smith (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 209
CORBETT, OR 97019
(503)695-2545(H), (503)695-6385(W)
Date filed: Nov 23, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: patti@larchmt.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 53RD DISTRICT
Gene Whisnant (REPUBLICAN)
18160 COTTONWOOD RD, # 232
SUNRIVER, OR 97707
(541)593-7437(H), (541)598-7560(W)
Date filed: Oct 13, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: whisnant@bendnet.com
Web-Site: http://www.genewhisnant.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 54TH DISTRICT
Chuck Burley (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 9424
BEND, OR 97708
(541)383-8598(H), (541)389-2306(W)
Date filed: Oct 31, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)388-0979
E-Mail: chuck@burleyandassociates.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 55TH DISTRICT
George Gilman (REPUBLICAN)
3695 DODSON DRIVE
MEDFORD, OR 97504
(541)858-1726(H), (541)858-1747(W)
Date filed: Oct 25, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)858-1747
E-Mail: ggilman@qwest.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 56TH DISTRICT
Bill Garrard (REPUBLICAN)
5845 BASIN VIEW DR
KLAMATH FALLS, OR 97603
(541)850-9740(H), (541)882-0490(W)
Date filed: Dec 14, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)882-0490
E-Mail: repgar@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 57TH DISTRICT
Greg Smith (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 219
HEPPNER, OR 97836-0219
(541)676-8719(H), (541)676-5154(W)
Date filed: Mar 02, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)676-5898
E-Mail: repgregsmith@windwave.org
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 58TH DISTRICT
Bob Jenson (REPUBLICAN)
2126 NW DESPAIN
PENDLETON, OR 97801
(541)276-2707(H), (541)276-5821(W)
Date filed: Nov 14, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)276-2707
E-Mail: bjenson@oregontrail.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 59TH DISTRICT
John H. Dallum (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 866
THE DALLES, OR 97058
(541)506-9284(H), (541)340-9505(W)
Date filed: Nov 08, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: jhdallum@yahoo.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 60TH DISTRICT
R. Thomas (Tom) Butler (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX E
ONTARIO, OR 97914-0106
(541)889-3014(H), (541)889-3971(W)
Date filed: Jan 10, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: cpatom@fmtc.com
Web-Site: http://www.ButlerT.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 1ST DISTRICT
Derrick Kitts (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 1946
HILLSBORO, OR 97123
(503)312-8146(H), (503)640-4089(W)
Date filed: Feb 15, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: derrick@derrickitts.com
Web-Site: http://www.derrickitts.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 2ND DISTRICT
Paul A. Daghlian (REPUBLICAN)
1850 NW LARCH AVE
CORVALLIS, OR 97330
(541)760-8662(H), (541)760-8662(W)
Date filed: Apr 18, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: pauldaghlian@yahoo.com
Web-Site: http://www.daghlianforcongress.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 2ND DISTRICT
Greg Walden (REPUBLICAN)
1504 SHERMAN AVE
HOOD RIVER, OR 97031
(541)386-2867(H), (202)225-6730(W)
Date filed: Mar 01, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)387-5378
E-Mail: greg@waldenforcongress.com
Web-Site: http://www.waldenforcongress.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 4TH DISTRICT
Monica Johnson (REPUBLICAN)
1025 SKIPPER
EUGENE, OR 97404
(541)689-3102(H), (541)461-7777(W)
Date filed: Feb 23, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: wot_@hotmail.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 4TH DISTRICT
Jim Feldkamp (REPUBLICAN)
4257 BARGER DR #353
EUGENE, OR 97402
(541)342-5478(H), (541)607-6614(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)607-6714
E-Mail: info@jimfeldkamp.com
Web-Site: http://www.jimfeldkamp.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 5TH DISTRICT
Mike Erickson (REPUBLICAN)
13800 STAMPHER RD
LAKE OSWEGO, OR 97034
(503)367-5505(H)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)635-1043
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
GOVERNOR
David W. Beem (REPUBLICAN)
1919 FAIRGROUNDS RD SE #19
SALEM, OR 97301
(503)365-1945(H), (971)240-2680(W)
Date filed: Jun 17, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: davidwbeem@email.com
Web-Site: `
GOVERNOR
William E. Spidal (REPUBLICAN)
40521 ANDERSON RD
NEHALEM, OR 97131
(503)939-1540(H)
Date filed: Aug 03, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: http://www.billspidal.org
GOVERNOR
Kevin Mannix (REPUBLICAN)
2007 STATE ST
SALEM, OR 97301
(503)371-8145(H), (503)364-1913(W)
Date filed: Nov 07, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)362-0513
E-Mail: maureen@mannixfororegon.org
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
GOVERNOR
Jason A. Atkinson (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 1965
WILSONVILLE, OR 97070
(541)664-9878(H), (541)955-0911(W)
Date filed: Jan 27, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: info@atkinsonforgovernor.com
Web-Site: http://www.atkinsonforgovernor.com
GOVERNOR
W. Ames Curtright (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 1350
JEFFERSON, OR 97352
(503)209-7388(H), (503)743-4905(W)
Date filed: Feb 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)743-2719
E-Mail: info@amesfororegongov.com
Web-Site: http://www.amesfororegongov.com
GOVERNOR
Gordon Leitch (REPUBLICAN)
885 SW RED HILLS DR
DUNDEE, OR 97115
(503)554-9964(H), (503)296-6200(W)
Date filed: Feb 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: http://www.leitch4govr.com
GOVERNOR
Ron Saxton (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 163
PORTLAND, OR 97207
(503)235-7091(H), (503)224-2006(W)
Date filed: Feb 21, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)226-0079
E-Mail: info@votesaxton.com
Web-Site: http://www.votesaxton.com
GOVERNOR
Bob Leonard Forthan (REPUBLICAN)
6304 NE 23RD
PORTLAND, OR 97211
(503)287-6356(H), (503)287-1381(W)
Date filed: Mar 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 3RD DISTRICT
Lynn Aiello (REPUBLICAN)
4732 CLOUDCREST DR.
MEDFORD, OR 97504
(541)245-9336(H)
Date filed: Mar 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: lynn@radioproducts.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 4TH DISTRICT
Bill Eddie (REPUBLICAN)
830 CREST
EUGENE, OR 97405
(541)684-8500(H)
Date filed: Feb 10, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)434-2483
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 6TH DISTRICT
Renee Lindsey (REPUBLICAN)
32779 SANDRIDGE RD
LEBANON, OR 97355
(541)451-3035(H), (541)967-3340(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: nogotname@centurytel.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 7TH DISTRICT
Jim Torrey (REPUBLICAN)
3593 RIVER POINTE DR
EUGENE, OR 97408
(541)687-7220(H), (541)968-2596(W)
Date filed: Sep 13, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)683-6063
E-Mail: jimtorrey@comcast.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 8TH DISTRICT
Frank Morse (REPUBLICAN)
3616 NW EAGLE VIEW DR
ALBANY, OR 97321
(541)928-4874(H), (503)986-1708(W)
Date filed: Nov 10, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)928-0525
E-Mail: flmorse@comcast.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 10TH DISTRICT
Sarah Arcune (REPUBLICAN)
1842 WILDING PLACE
STAYTON, OR 97383
(503)769-7512(H)
Date filed: Nov 23, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Pending
Withdrawn: Nov 30, 2005
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 10TH DISTRICT
Jackie Winters (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 126
SALEM, OR 97308
(503)581-9114(H), (503)986-1710(W)
Date filed: Dec 06, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: marcwinters@comcast.net
Web-Site: http://www.jackiewinters.com
STATE SENATOR, 11TH DISTRICT
Jared Thatcher (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 9094
BROOKS, OR 97305
(503)485-0598(H), (503)390-0626(W)
Date filed: Mar 03, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: jared@votejared.com
Web-Site: http://www.votejared.com
STATE SENATOR, 13TH DISTRICT
Larry George (REPUBLICAN)
16785 SW PARRETT MTN RD
SHERWOOD, OR 97140
(503)925-9650(H), (503)341-8546(W)
Date filed: Aug 09, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)538-6001
E-Mail: larrygeorge@teleport.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 13TH DISTRICT
Charles Starr (REPUBLICAN)
8330 SW RIVER RD
HILLSBORO, OR 97123
(503)642-2024(H), (503)986-1713(W)
Date filed: Oct 04, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: kstarr@charlesstarr.org
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified
STATE SENATOR, 15TH DISTRICT
Bruce Starr (REPUBLICAN)
22115 NW IMBRIE DR #290
HILLSBORO, OR 97124
(503)681-9823(H), (503)310-7500(W)
Date filed: Jan 12, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: senator@brucestarr.org
Web-Site: http://www.brucestarr.org
STATE SENATOR, 16TH DISTRICT
Don Fell (REPUBLICAN)
POBX 1112
ASTORIA, OR 97103
(503)325-9696(H)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: dmfell@msn.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 19TH DISTRICT
David Newell (REPUBLICAN)
19635 OLD RIVER DR
WEST LINN, OR 97068
Date filed: Mar 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 20TH DISTRICT
Thomas F. Lemons (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 2993
OREGON CITY, OR 97045
(503)710-0782(H), (503)710-0782(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: tommylem@msn.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 24TH DISTRICT
T.J. Reilly (REPUBLICAN)
10300 SE CRESTHILL RD
PORTLAND, OR 97266
(503)257-3720(H), (503)656-6688(W)
Date filed: Mar 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)655-3675
E-Mail: sdas88@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE SENATOR, 26TH DISTRICT
Carol York (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 918
HOOD RIVER, OR 97031
(541)386-4665(H), (541)386-7440(W)
Date filed: Dec 13, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)386-7480
E-Mail: carol@gorgepublishing.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 1ST DISTRICT
Wayne Krieger (REPUBLICAN)
95702 SKYVIEW RANCH RD
GOLD BEACH, OR 97444
(541)247-7990(H), (541)247-7990(W)
Date filed: Jan 03, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)247-7154
E-Mail: wkrieger@harborside.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 2ND DISTRICT
Susan Morgan (REPUBLICAN)
P.O. BOX 2223
MYRTLE CREEK, OR 97457
(541)784-3503(H), (541)784-3503(W)
Date filed: Jan 25, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)784-3503
E-Mail: dist2@pioneer-net.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 3RD DISTRICT
Ron Maurer (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 2061GRANTS PASS, OR 97528-2061
(541)476-7098(H), (541)582-8899(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)582-2112
E-Mail: electronmaurer@yahoo.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 4TH DISTRICT
Dennis Richardson (REPUBLICAN)
55 SOUTH 5TH ST.
CENTRAL POINT, OR 97502
(541)665-9203(H), (541)664-6624(W)
Date filed: Oct 05, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)664-6625
E-Mail: dennis@dennisrichardson.org
Web-Site: http://www.dennisrichardson.org
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 6TH DISTRICT
Sal Esquivel (REPUBLICAN)
28 QUINCE ST
MEDFORD, OR 97501
(541)494-1511(H), (541)494-4944(W)
Date filed: Nov 10, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)494-4945
E-Mail: sal@fognot.co
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 7TH DISTRICT
Bruce Hanna (REPUBLICAN)
612 NW CECIL AVE
ROSEBURG, OR 97470
(541)440-9004(H), (541)672-6596(W)
Date filed: Oct 06, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)672-5278
E-Mail: bhcoke@rosenet.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 8TH DISTRICT
Andrew Hill (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 24729
EUGENE, OR 97402
(541)343-2306(H), (541)343-2306(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: kdxman357@comcast.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 9TH DISTRICT
Al Pearn (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 457
FLORENCE, OR 97439
(541)997-1863(H), (541)997-9700(W)
Date filed: Oct 13, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)997-9700
E-Mail: al@alpearn.com
Web-Site: al@alpearn.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 10TH DISTRICT
Alan Brown (REPUBLICAN)
1155 SW COAST HWY
NEWPORT, OR 97365
(541)265-8060(H), (541)265-6605(W)
Date filed: Jan 17, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)265-6655
E-Mail: alan_brown@charter.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 12TH DISTRICT
Bill Lioio (REPUBLICAN)
747 KELLY BOULEVARD
SPRINGFIELD, OR 97477
(541)726-9940(H), (541)726-9940(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)726-9770
E-Mail: bill_lioio@msn.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 13TH DISTRICT
Thomas Ray Albright (REPUBLICAN)
2511 WILLAKENZIE RD #3
EUGENE, OR 97401
(541)343-2471(H), (503)951-3294(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: talbrig1@uoregon.edu
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 14TH DISTRICT
Debi Farr (REPUBLICAN)
4257 BARGER DR. #272
EUGENE, OR 97402
(541)461-4091(H), (503)986-1414(W)
Date filed: Dec 12, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: farrforourfuture@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 15TH DISTRICT
Andy Olson (REPUBLICAN)
P O BOX 891
ALBANY, OR 97321
(541)967-0393(H), (541)967-6576(W)
Date filed: Oct 03, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)967-6576
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 16TH DISTRICT
Robin M. Brown (REPUBLICAN)
3077 NW THISTLE PL
CORVALLIS, OR 97330
(541)754-6507(H)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: redrobinbrown@comcast.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 17TH DISTRICT
Jeff Kropf (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 2526
SUBLIMITY, OR 97355
(541)729-6229(H), (503)986-1417(W)
Date filed: Feb 17, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)747-8910
E-Mail: jeff@jefkropf.com
Web-Site: http://www.jeffkropf.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 18TH DISTRICT
Mac Sumner (REPUBLICAN)
1442 MEADOWLAWN PL
MOLALLA, OR 97038
(503)829-8861(H)
Date filed: Oct 17, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)829-8862
E-Mail: mac@molalla.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 18TH DISTRICT
James L. Buchal (REPUBLICAN)
2000 S.W. FIRST AVENUE, SUITE 320
PORTLAND, OR 97201
(503)651-3119(H), (503)227-1011(W)
Date filed: Feb 14, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)227-1034
E-Mail: counsel@buchal.com
Web-Site: http://www.buchal.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 18TH DISTRICT
Dale Settje (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 224
MOLALLA, OR 97038
(503)829-2086(H), (503)829-7193(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)829-7193
E-Mail: drsettje@gmail.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 19TH DISTRICT
Kevin Cameron (REPUBLICAN)
4742 LIBERTY RD S #236
SALEM, OR 97306
(503)399-8011(H), (503)315-5712(W)
Date filed: Sep 20, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)362-2542
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 20TH DISTRICT
Vicki Berger (REPUBLICAN)
805 KINGWOOD DR NW
SALEM, OR 97304
(503)581-9969(H), (503)986-1420(W)
Date filed: Nov 30, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: vicki@berger.net
Web-Site: http://www.vicki.berger.net
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 21ST DISTRICT
Billy Dalto (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 943
SALEM, OR 97308
(503)363-1271(H), (503)363-1271(W)
Date filed: Oct 27, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)391-4393
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 22ND DISTRICT
Carl Wieneke (REPUBLICAN)
1208 INDEPENDENCE CT
WOODBURN, OR 97071
(503)981-5484(H), (503)351-8257(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)981-5485
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 23RD DISTRICT
Brian Boquist (REPUBLICAN)
17080 BUTLER HILL ROAD
DALLAS, OR 97338
(503)623-4426(H), (503)589-1437(W)
Date filed: Oct 18, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)623-7665
E-Mail: boquist@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 24TH DISTRICT
Donna G. Nelson (REPUBLICAN)
2150 ST ANDREWS DR.
MCMINNVILLE, OR 97128
(503)472-7446(H), (503)472-3015(W)
Date filed: Feb 22, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)435-2330
E-Mail: grit@onlinemac.com
Web-Site: http://www.donnanelsonfororegon.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 25TH DISTRICT
Kim Thatcher (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 9111
SALEM, OR 97305
(503)932-1291(W)
Date filed: Nov 03, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: kim@kimthatcher.net
Web-Site: http://www.kimthatcher.net
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 26TH DISTRICT
Jerry Krummel (REPUBLICAN)
7544 SW ROANOKE DR
WILSONVILLE, OR 97070
(503)682-7872(H), (503)394-4315(W)
Date filed: Feb 15, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)570-2865
E-Mail: jerry.krummel@verizon.net
Web-Site: http://www.JerryKrummel.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 27TH DISTRICT
Domonic Biggi (REPUBLICAN)
7905 SW CEDAR ST #42
PORTLAND, OR 97225
(503)869-2101(H), (503)924-4039(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)924-4010
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 28TH DISTRICT
Eldon Derville-Teer (REPUBLICAN)
PMB #164
18645 SW FARMINGTON RD
ALOHA, OR 97007
(503)356-8961(H), (971)227-9084(W)
Date filed: Apr 21, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)356-8961
E-Mail: eldon@eldondervilleteer.com
Web-Site: http://www.eldondervilleteer.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 28TH DISTRICT
Christopher Mentrum (REPUBLICAN)
6322 SW VINWOOD TERR
BEAVERTON, OR 97007
(503)430-5442(H)
Date filed: Jul 24, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: christophermentrum@yahoo.com
Web-Site: http://www.geocities.com/christophermentrum/28.html
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 29TH DISTRICT
Barry S. Lee (REPUBLICAN)
1430 PRIMROSE LN
FOREST GROVE, OR 97116
(503)357-9404(H), (503)473-7258(W)
Date filed: Feb 19, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: barlee517@hotmail.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 29TH DISTRICT
Terry Rilling (REPUBLICAN)
290 N 11TH AVE
CORNELIUS, OR 97113
(503)793-3500(H)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 30TH DISTRICT
Everett Curry (REPUBLICAN)
1546 NE GREENSWORD DR
HILLSBORO, OR 97124-6139
(503)640-1088(H), (503)640-1088(W)
Date filed: Jan 26, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)640-1088
E-Mail: evcurry@gmail.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 31ST DISTRICT
Mike Kocher (REPUBLICAN)
31741 DUTCH CANYON RD
SCAPPOOSE, OR 97056
(503)543-7479(H), (503)543-0111(W)
Date filed: Mar 02, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 32ND DISTRICT
Norm Myers (REPUBLICAN)
1602 SECOND ST
TILLAMOOK, OR 97141
(503)842-5867(H), (503)842-2882(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)842-3125
E-Mail: pca@oregoncoast.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 33RD DISTRICT
Mark Eggleston (REPUBLICAN)
1190 NW 119TH PL
PORTLAND, OR 97229
(503)644-7702(H), (503)807-4337(W)
Date filed: Jan 30, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: eggleston.mark@gmail.com
Web-Site: none
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 34TH DISTRICT
Joan Draper (REPUBLICAN)
1783 NW 143RD AVE #21
PORTLAND, OR 97229-4358
(503)617-1549(H), (503)329-1316(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 35TH DISTRICT
Shirley Parsons (REPUBLICAN)
12254 SW GARDEN PL
TIGARD, OR 97223
(503)352-3685(W)
Date filed: Dec 05, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)598-1192
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 37TH DISTRICT
Scott Bruun (REPUBLICAN)
23069 BLAND CIRCLE
WEST LINN, OR 97068
(503)650-9912(H), (503)866-8818(W)
Date filed: Oct 17, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)230-0914
E-Mail: scottbruun@yahoo.com
Web-Site: http://www.joinscott.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 38TH DISTRICT
Fred Bremner (REPUBLICAN)
27 TOUCHSTONE
LAKE OSWEGO, OR 97035
(503)635-3319(H)
Date filed: Oct 29, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)636-6527
E-Mail: fbremner@msn.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 39TH DISTRICT
Wayne Scott (REPUBLICAN)
1988 NE 19TH AVE
CANBY, OR 97013
(503)266-3837(H), (503)266-7589(W)
Date filed: Oct 03, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)266-5105
E-Mail: wayne-scott@msn.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 44TH DISTRICT
Jay Kushner (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 83143
PORTLAND, OR 97283
(503)701-8901(H), (503)283-8337(W)
Date filed: Mar 06, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: jaykushner@gmail.com
Web-Site: http://www.GoodGovernmentOregon.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 46TH DISTRICT
William (Bill) C. Cornett (REPUBLICAN)
1017 S.E. 50TH. AVENUE
PORTLAND, OR 97215-2603
(503)232-4743(H), (503)860-8698(W)
Date filed: Feb 08, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)232-4743
E-Mail: williamccornett@hotmail.com
Web-Site: None
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 47TH DISTRICT
Bruce McCain (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 30705
PORTLAND, OR 97294-3705
(503)988-4325(W)
Date filed: Mar 07, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)257-7320
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 48TH DISTRICT
Dave Mowry (REPUBLICAN)
13913 SE HAMPSHIRE CT
CLACKAMAS, OR 97015
(503)658-0711(H), (503)577-3904(W)
Date filed: Nov 22, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: electdavemowry@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 49TH DISTRICT
Karen Minnis (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 790
FAIRVIEW, OR 97024
(503)986-1200(W)
Date filed: Oct 20, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)491-8672
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 50TH DISTRICT
John Lim (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 1616
GRESHAM, OR 97030
(503)667-3647(H), (503)238-9719(W)
Date filed: Oct 18, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)665-0864
E-Mail: senatorjohnlim@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 51ST DISTRICT
Linda Flores (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 55
CLACKAMAS, OR 97015
(503)722-1419(W)
Date filed: Nov 30, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (503)722-1294
E-Mail: floresteam@aol.com
Web-Site: http://www.LindaFlores.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 52ND DISTRICT
Patti Smith (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 209
CORBETT, OR 97019
(503)695-2545(H), (503)695-6385(W)
Date filed: Nov 23, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: patti@larchmt.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 53RD DISTRICT
Gene Whisnant (REPUBLICAN)
18160 COTTONWOOD RD, # 232
SUNRIVER, OR 97707
(541)593-7437(H), (541)598-7560(W)
Date filed: Oct 13, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: whisnant@bendnet.com
Web-Site: http://www.genewhisnant.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 54TH DISTRICT
Chuck Burley (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 9424
BEND, OR 97708
(541)383-8598(H), (541)389-2306(W)
Date filed: Oct 31, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)388-0979
E-Mail: chuck@burleyandassociates.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 55TH DISTRICT
George Gilman (REPUBLICAN)
3695 DODSON DRIVE
MEDFORD, OR 97504
(541)858-1726(H), (541)858-1747(W)
Date filed: Oct 25, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)858-1747
E-Mail: ggilman@qwest.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 56TH DISTRICT
Bill Garrard (REPUBLICAN)
5845 BASIN VIEW DR
KLAMATH FALLS, OR 97603
(541)850-9740(H), (541)882-0490(W)
Date filed: Dec 14, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)882-0490
E-Mail: repgar@aol.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 57TH DISTRICT
Greg Smith (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 219
HEPPNER, OR 97836-0219
(541)676-8719(H), (541)676-5154(W)
Date filed: Mar 02, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)676-5898
E-Mail: repgregsmith@windwave.org
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 58TH DISTRICT
Bob Jenson (REPUBLICAN)
2126 NW DESPAIN
PENDLETON, OR 97801
(541)276-2707(H), (541)276-5821(W)
Date filed: Nov 14, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: (541)276-2707
E-Mail: bjenson@oregontrail.net
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 59TH DISTRICT
John H. Dallum (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 866
THE DALLES, OR 97058
(541)506-9284(H), (541)340-9505(W)
Date filed: Nov 08, 2005 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: jhdallum@yahoo.com
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 60TH DISTRICT
R. Thomas (Tom) Butler (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX E
ONTARIO, OR 97914-0106
(541)889-3014(H), (541)889-3971(W)
Date filed: Jan 10, 2006 by Fee
Qualified For Office: Yes
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: cpatom@fmtc.com
Web-Site: http://www.ButlerT.com
Saturday, March 11, 2006
President W. H. Taft visits Salem, Oregon
Republican President William Howard Taft, visiting Salem, Oregon. October 12, 1911. Corner of High and Court Streets, with Durbin House in the background. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Friday, March 10, 2006
"These are a few of our favorite things..."
"These are a few of our favorite things..."
The Legislative Revenue Office produces a document, the latest of which is the "2006 Oregon Public Finance: Basic Facts" Research Report #1-06. This document provides an overview of Oregon's basic revenue streams, covering such subjects as: basic revenue sources, the 2% "Kicker" provisions, the effect of tax changes, personal income taxes, corporate excise taxes, property taxes/relief, estate/inheritance taxes, school finance, transportation taxes, timber taxes, tobacco/liquor/excise taxes, lottery revenues and other reports. A HIGHLY valuable document:
http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/lro/rr1_06_oregon_publicfinance_basicfacts.pdf
The Legislative Fiscal Office produces a document, called "Budget Highlights: 2005-2007 Legislatively Adopted Budget". This document summarizes program areas, legislative actions affecting the budget, budget risks and other budget issues:
http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/lfo/budghigh05-07.pdf
The Legislative Fiscal Office also produced the much more detailed "Analysis of the 2005-2007 Legislatively Adopted Budget". This delves into the intricacies of the various programs, their budgets and the environment in which they operate. The entrance page to this document is found at:
http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/lfo/05_07agb/05_07_lab_cover_pages.pdf
For the education geeks out there, please find the all-state, district by district breakdown on State School Fund Grant Estimates. This document contains important foundational budget information on the state school funding formula and the raw material, district by district, that builds each district's total grant allocation:
http://www.ode.state.or.us/services/ssf/districtestimatecurrent12-02-05toweb.pdf
Oregon Department of Revenue: Research and Statistical Reports and Publications
http://www.oregon.gov/DOR/STATS/statistics.shtml
State of Oregon, 2005-2007 Tax Expenditure Report. Describes the 352 codified tax expenditures in the State of Oregon. These expenditures represent approximately $27 billion, for the 2005-2007 biennium.
http://www.oregon.gov/DOR/STATS/exp05-07-toc.shtml
The Legislative Revenue Office produces a document, the latest of which is the "2006 Oregon Public Finance: Basic Facts" Research Report #1-06. This document provides an overview of Oregon's basic revenue streams, covering such subjects as: basic revenue sources, the 2% "Kicker" provisions, the effect of tax changes, personal income taxes, corporate excise taxes, property taxes/relief, estate/inheritance taxes, school finance, transportation taxes, timber taxes, tobacco/liquor/excise taxes, lottery revenues and other reports. A HIGHLY valuable document:
http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/lro/rr1_06_oregon_publicfinance_basicfacts.pdf
The Legislative Fiscal Office produces a document, called "Budget Highlights: 2005-2007 Legislatively Adopted Budget". This document summarizes program areas, legislative actions affecting the budget, budget risks and other budget issues:
http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/lfo/budghigh05-07.pdf
The Legislative Fiscal Office also produced the much more detailed "Analysis of the 2005-2007 Legislatively Adopted Budget". This delves into the intricacies of the various programs, their budgets and the environment in which they operate. The entrance page to this document is found at:
http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/lfo/05_07agb/05_07_lab_cover_pages.pdf
For the education geeks out there, please find the all-state, district by district breakdown on State School Fund Grant Estimates. This document contains important foundational budget information on the state school funding formula and the raw material, district by district, that builds each district's total grant allocation:
http://www.ode.state.or.us/services/ssf/districtestimatecurrent12-02-05toweb.pdf
Oregon Department of Revenue: Research and Statistical Reports and Publications
http://www.oregon.gov/DOR/STATS/statistics.shtml
State of Oregon, 2005-2007 Tax Expenditure Report. Describes the 352 codified tax expenditures in the State of Oregon. These expenditures represent approximately $27 billion, for the 2005-2007 biennium.
http://www.oregon.gov/DOR/STATS/exp05-07-toc.shtml
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Oregon Republican League: History 101
Every Wednesday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 172-176
ALEXANDER, REUBEN, of Pendleton, was born in Hengstfeld, Wurtemberg, May 14, 1850. He came to the United States in 1866 and to Oregon in 1869 and located at La Grande. He lived there and in Baker City till he went to Pendleton in 1878, where he has since resided, pursuing a successful mercantile business. He served three years in the City Council, and in 1892 and 1893 was elected Mayor of the City. He was appointed Regent of the State Normal School at Weston in 1895. He has frequently been a delegate to county and state conventions, and to the league. He is a member of the Republican Club at Pendleton, and an active worker.
ALLEN, ETHAN W., of Portland, was born in Oswego, Illinois, July 24, 1842. In 1854 he went to Minnesota. In 1862 he enlisted in the Seventh Minnesota and served till the close of the war. He then engaged in the farm machinery business in Minnesota and Iowa till 1881, when he came to Portland as manager of the implement house of Seymour, Sabin & Co. He retired in 1883, when the business was [s]old. That year he was elected Superintendent of the Portland Mechanics’ Fair, and was re-elected in 1884. In 1884 Governor Moody appointed him to represent Oregon at the World’s Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, and in 1885 at the North, South and Central American Exposition, of which he became a member of the board of managers and vice-president. In 1886 he was commissioned to represent Oregon at the American Exposition in London. In 1889 he was elected Superintendent of the Industrial Exposition in Portland, and was made superintendent and secretary the following year, and again in 1893. He is a leader is horticultural matters, and for several years was secretary of the state board, which he was instrumental in creating. He is at present department commander of the G.A.R., has always been a Republican, and is a nominee of the Taxpayer’s League for the Legislature.
ALLEN, HARRY C., Recorder of Multnomah County, is a veteran of the civil war, serving four ane one-half years, and a past commander of Garfield Post, G.A.R. He had a long business career in Portland in the wholesale drug house of Snell, Heitshu & Woodard, till elected Recorder in 1892. In 1894 he was re-elected.
ALLEN, HARRISON, of St. Helens, was born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1866 and came to Oregon two years ago, locating at St. Helens in the practice of the law, having been admitted to the bar in Colorado in 1890. He is an earnest and active Republican and is president of the McKinley Club of St. Helens. He was a delegate to the last league meeting.
ALLEY, HON. B. F., senator from Lane County, was born in New York in 1840. He lived in Illinois and enlisted in 1861 and served through the war. In 1874 he moved to California and in 1883 to Oregon. In 1890 he founded “The West,” at Florence. He has been twice Mayor of Florence, and has served two sessions in the state senate. He has just founded a new paper in Baker City.
ANDERSON, HON. ROBERT S., an attorney of Baker City, was born in McLeansboro, Illinois, November 12, 1850. He was admitted to the bar and was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1874. He was one of the board to locate the Illinois Institute for the Feeble Minded. He was appointed United States Attorney for Montana by President Hayes. In 1884 he came to Oregon and began practice in Baker City. He was a member of every county convention since that time, and president of three of them; was a member of the state convention of 1884, and of the state league of 1895, and was elected a delegate to the national league.
APPERSON, A.J., of McMinnville, was born in Newton County, Missouri, Septemeber 17, 1839, and came to Oregon in 1847. Resided a mile fro Portland till 1849, then went to school in Portland till 1851, when he went to Linn City, opposite Oregon City, and lived there till 1858, when he went to the Fraser river mines; came back in 1859 and followed steamboating until 1864, except one season in the mines. He then took charge of flouring mills, going to McMinnville in 1884 to engage in the general merchandise business. He was a delegate to the Clackamas County conventions from 1864 to 1882, serving as chairman, and to the state conventions during the same period. He has been a delegate to Yamhill County conventions since 1886, and the club conventions in 1894-95. He was for nine years a member of the City Council of Oregon City. He served four months in the Yakima Indian war of 1856, under Colonel J. K. Kelly.
APPERSON, JOHN T., of Oregon City, was born in Christian County, Kentucky, December 23, 1834. The next year the family moved to Newton County, Missouri, and in 1847 crossed the plains to Oregon, the father dying on the way. Being the oldest of four boys, upon John devolved much of the responsibility of caring for and educating the family of nine children, so that his own educational opportunities were limited. In 1859 he became interested in steamboating on the Willamette, and commanded the steamer which conveyed Colonel E.D. Baker, Oregon’s first Republican senator, from Salem to Portland on his way to Washington in 1860. In 1861, when Colonel Baker called for a regiment of Oregon cavalry, young Apperson volunteered, but the death of Colonel Baker blasted the young man’s hope of serving under him. He remained in the army till the close of the war. He then resumed steamboating until 1872, and has since lived on his farm near Oregon City. In 1870 he was elected Representative from Clackamas County to the legislature. In 1874 he was elected Sheriff on that county, and served two terms. In 1878 he was elected State Senator, and became for two sessions a leading figure in that body. He was the nominee again in 1884, but party dissensions cause the defeat of the ticket. In 1884 he was a delegate to the national convention, and supported both Blaine and Logan, and was chosen a member of the national executive committee for Oregon. In 1888 he was elected to the lower house of the legislature from Clackamas County. In 1889 he was appointed Register of the United States Land Office at Oregon City, and served four years. He has been frequently a member of the county and state central committees, and a delegate to conventions. He has taken a prominent part in the councils of the Republican party from its foundation, and in founding and developing the State of Oregon.
APPLEGATE, E. ROY, of Drain, was born at Yoncalla, Oregon, in 1873, and is a son of D. W. Applegate and a grandson of Jesse Applegate. He was a delegate to the league in 1895 and 1896, and the Douglas County convention in 1896, and is secretary of the club at Drain.
APPLEGATE, HON. JESSE A., of Salem, was born in Missouri in 1835, and came to Oregon in 1843. He was admitted to the far in 1864 at Salem. He was elected Superintendent of Schools in Polk County, and to the legislature in 1864.
APPLEGATE, HON. ELISHA L., of Ashland, is the oldest son of Hon. Lindsay Applegate, and came to Oregon with his parents in 1843. He was one of the founders of the Republican party in Oregon, and was nominated for State Treasurer on the first Republican state ticket, in 1858. He has been a member of the legislature, was a member of the first state central committee, a Presidential Elector in 1880, and frequently a member of state conventions, and for years was an effective campaign speaker.
APPLEGATE, CAPTAIN O. C., of Klamath Falls, is a son of Hon. Lindsay Applegate and native of Oregon. He was captain of a volunteer company during the Modoc war. He has been a Republican all his life, and has continuously been a member of state and county conventions and central committees and delegate to the league conventions. In 1892 he was a delegate to the national convention, and in 1894 a prominent candidate for nomination for the office of Secretary of State. Captain Applegate is now the Republican nominee for Joint Senator for Klamath, lake and Crook Counties.
APPLEGATE, CHARLES, was born in Henry County, Kentucky, January 24, 1806, and died in Yoncalla, Oregon, August 9, 1879. In 1820 he moved with the family to Missouri, and in 1843 came to Oregon. In 1850 he settled in Douglas County, where he resided until the time of his death. He was one of the organizers of the Republican party in Oregon.
APPLEGATE, LINDSAY, was born in Henry County, Kentucky, September 18, 1808. In 1820 the family moved to near St. Louis. At the age of fifteen years he went with General Ashley on a trapping expedition to the Rocky mountains. He also served as a volunteer in the Black Hawk war. In 1843 he crossed the plains to Oregon and settled in Polk County. In 1844 he was a member of the first volunteer company organized to protect settlers from Indians. In 1846 he was one of the fifteen who explored the southern emigrant route through the Modoc country to Fort Hall. In 1848 he raised a company and went with General Joe Lane to capture the deserting regulars. The same year he moved to the Umpqua and served as Indian Agent under General Palmer. In 1853 he raised a company of mounted volunteers and was mastered into the United States service to fight the Rogue river Indians. He was present when the famous Table Rock treaty was made. In 1861 he was captain of a company that guarded the emigrant trail. For quite a number of years he was Special Indian Agent and Sub-Agent at Klamath. In 1869 a military agent was appointed, and three years later the Modoc was broke out. Mr. Applegate was one of the leading pioneer Republicans of Oregon, and helped organize the party in the state. In 1862 he was a member of the legislature from Jackson County.
ARMSTRONG A. P. [Editor inserted: Anderville P. Armstrong], of Portland, and principal and proprietor of Portland Business College, is a native son of Oregon. He was born at Jacksonville, January 17, 1855. He learned all he could in the public schools, and at the age of seventeen began his career as a teacher, earning money with which to procure a higher education. He subsequently became principal of the National Business College, at Portland, and in 1881 purchased the school, changing its name to Portland Business College. It is the largest institution of its kind in the Pacific Northwest and ranks among the first in the country. Mr. Armstrong has always been an earnest Republican and an advocate of clean politics and honest government. He is the nominee of the wing of the party for County Superintendent of Schools.
AUSTIN, ISAAC, of Oswego, was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, October 13, 1858. At the age of twenty-three he came to Oregon and located in Oswego in 1882, where he has since lived and followed his trade as carpenter. He is a member of the Republican Club, and represented it at the league in 1895.
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 172-176
ALEXANDER, REUBEN, of Pendleton, was born in Hengstfeld, Wurtemberg, May 14, 1850. He came to the United States in 1866 and to Oregon in 1869 and located at La Grande. He lived there and in Baker City till he went to Pendleton in 1878, where he has since resided, pursuing a successful mercantile business. He served three years in the City Council, and in 1892 and 1893 was elected Mayor of the City. He was appointed Regent of the State Normal School at Weston in 1895. He has frequently been a delegate to county and state conventions, and to the league. He is a member of the Republican Club at Pendleton, and an active worker.
ALLEN, ETHAN W., of Portland, was born in Oswego, Illinois, July 24, 1842. In 1854 he went to Minnesota. In 1862 he enlisted in the Seventh Minnesota and served till the close of the war. He then engaged in the farm machinery business in Minnesota and Iowa till 1881, when he came to Portland as manager of the implement house of Seymour, Sabin & Co. He retired in 1883, when the business was [s]old. That year he was elected Superintendent of the Portland Mechanics’ Fair, and was re-elected in 1884. In 1884 Governor Moody appointed him to represent Oregon at the World’s Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, and in 1885 at the North, South and Central American Exposition, of which he became a member of the board of managers and vice-president. In 1886 he was commissioned to represent Oregon at the American Exposition in London. In 1889 he was elected Superintendent of the Industrial Exposition in Portland, and was made superintendent and secretary the following year, and again in 1893. He is a leader is horticultural matters, and for several years was secretary of the state board, which he was instrumental in creating. He is at present department commander of the G.A.R., has always been a Republican, and is a nominee of the Taxpayer’s League for the Legislature.
ALLEN, HARRY C., Recorder of Multnomah County, is a veteran of the civil war, serving four ane one-half years, and a past commander of Garfield Post, G.A.R. He had a long business career in Portland in the wholesale drug house of Snell, Heitshu & Woodard, till elected Recorder in 1892. In 1894 he was re-elected.
ALLEN, HARRISON, of St. Helens, was born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1866 and came to Oregon two years ago, locating at St. Helens in the practice of the law, having been admitted to the bar in Colorado in 1890. He is an earnest and active Republican and is president of the McKinley Club of St. Helens. He was a delegate to the last league meeting.
ALLEY, HON. B. F., senator from Lane County, was born in New York in 1840. He lived in Illinois and enlisted in 1861 and served through the war. In 1874 he moved to California and in 1883 to Oregon. In 1890 he founded “The West,” at Florence. He has been twice Mayor of Florence, and has served two sessions in the state senate. He has just founded a new paper in Baker City.
ANDERSON, HON. ROBERT S., an attorney of Baker City, was born in McLeansboro, Illinois, November 12, 1850. He was admitted to the bar and was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1874. He was one of the board to locate the Illinois Institute for the Feeble Minded. He was appointed United States Attorney for Montana by President Hayes. In 1884 he came to Oregon and began practice in Baker City. He was a member of every county convention since that time, and president of three of them; was a member of the state convention of 1884, and of the state league of 1895, and was elected a delegate to the national league.
APPERSON, A.J., of McMinnville, was born in Newton County, Missouri, Septemeber 17, 1839, and came to Oregon in 1847. Resided a mile fro Portland till 1849, then went to school in Portland till 1851, when he went to Linn City, opposite Oregon City, and lived there till 1858, when he went to the Fraser river mines; came back in 1859 and followed steamboating until 1864, except one season in the mines. He then took charge of flouring mills, going to McMinnville in 1884 to engage in the general merchandise business. He was a delegate to the Clackamas County conventions from 1864 to 1882, serving as chairman, and to the state conventions during the same period. He has been a delegate to Yamhill County conventions since 1886, and the club conventions in 1894-95. He was for nine years a member of the City Council of Oregon City. He served four months in the Yakima Indian war of 1856, under Colonel J. K. Kelly.
APPERSON, JOHN T., of Oregon City, was born in Christian County, Kentucky, December 23, 1834. The next year the family moved to Newton County, Missouri, and in 1847 crossed the plains to Oregon, the father dying on the way. Being the oldest of four boys, upon John devolved much of the responsibility of caring for and educating the family of nine children, so that his own educational opportunities were limited. In 1859 he became interested in steamboating on the Willamette, and commanded the steamer which conveyed Colonel E.D. Baker, Oregon’s first Republican senator, from Salem to Portland on his way to Washington in 1860. In 1861, when Colonel Baker called for a regiment of Oregon cavalry, young Apperson volunteered, but the death of Colonel Baker blasted the young man’s hope of serving under him. He remained in the army till the close of the war. He then resumed steamboating until 1872, and has since lived on his farm near Oregon City. In 1870 he was elected Representative from Clackamas County to the legislature. In 1874 he was elected Sheriff on that county, and served two terms. In 1878 he was elected State Senator, and became for two sessions a leading figure in that body. He was the nominee again in 1884, but party dissensions cause the defeat of the ticket. In 1884 he was a delegate to the national convention, and supported both Blaine and Logan, and was chosen a member of the national executive committee for Oregon. In 1888 he was elected to the lower house of the legislature from Clackamas County. In 1889 he was appointed Register of the United States Land Office at Oregon City, and served four years. He has been frequently a member of the county and state central committees, and a delegate to conventions. He has taken a prominent part in the councils of the Republican party from its foundation, and in founding and developing the State of Oregon.
APPLEGATE, E. ROY, of Drain, was born at Yoncalla, Oregon, in 1873, and is a son of D. W. Applegate and a grandson of Jesse Applegate. He was a delegate to the league in 1895 and 1896, and the Douglas County convention in 1896, and is secretary of the club at Drain.
APPLEGATE, HON. JESSE A., of Salem, was born in Missouri in 1835, and came to Oregon in 1843. He was admitted to the far in 1864 at Salem. He was elected Superintendent of Schools in Polk County, and to the legislature in 1864.
APPLEGATE, HON. ELISHA L., of Ashland, is the oldest son of Hon. Lindsay Applegate, and came to Oregon with his parents in 1843. He was one of the founders of the Republican party in Oregon, and was nominated for State Treasurer on the first Republican state ticket, in 1858. He has been a member of the legislature, was a member of the first state central committee, a Presidential Elector in 1880, and frequently a member of state conventions, and for years was an effective campaign speaker.
APPLEGATE, CAPTAIN O. C., of Klamath Falls, is a son of Hon. Lindsay Applegate and native of Oregon. He was captain of a volunteer company during the Modoc war. He has been a Republican all his life, and has continuously been a member of state and county conventions and central committees and delegate to the league conventions. In 1892 he was a delegate to the national convention, and in 1894 a prominent candidate for nomination for the office of Secretary of State. Captain Applegate is now the Republican nominee for Joint Senator for Klamath, lake and Crook Counties.
APPLEGATE, CHARLES, was born in Henry County, Kentucky, January 24, 1806, and died in Yoncalla, Oregon, August 9, 1879. In 1820 he moved with the family to Missouri, and in 1843 came to Oregon. In 1850 he settled in Douglas County, where he resided until the time of his death. He was one of the organizers of the Republican party in Oregon.
APPLEGATE, LINDSAY, was born in Henry County, Kentucky, September 18, 1808. In 1820 the family moved to near St. Louis. At the age of fifteen years he went with General Ashley on a trapping expedition to the Rocky mountains. He also served as a volunteer in the Black Hawk war. In 1843 he crossed the plains to Oregon and settled in Polk County. In 1844 he was a member of the first volunteer company organized to protect settlers from Indians. In 1846 he was one of the fifteen who explored the southern emigrant route through the Modoc country to Fort Hall. In 1848 he raised a company and went with General Joe Lane to capture the deserting regulars. The same year he moved to the Umpqua and served as Indian Agent under General Palmer. In 1853 he raised a company of mounted volunteers and was mastered into the United States service to fight the Rogue river Indians. He was present when the famous Table Rock treaty was made. In 1861 he was captain of a company that guarded the emigrant trail. For quite a number of years he was Special Indian Agent and Sub-Agent at Klamath. In 1869 a military agent was appointed, and three years later the Modoc was broke out. Mr. Applegate was one of the leading pioneer Republicans of Oregon, and helped organize the party in the state. In 1862 he was a member of the legislature from Jackson County.
ARMSTRONG A. P. [Editor inserted: Anderville P. Armstrong], of Portland, and principal and proprietor of Portland Business College, is a native son of Oregon. He was born at Jacksonville, January 17, 1855. He learned all he could in the public schools, and at the age of seventeen began his career as a teacher, earning money with which to procure a higher education. He subsequently became principal of the National Business College, at Portland, and in 1881 purchased the school, changing its name to Portland Business College. It is the largest institution of its kind in the Pacific Northwest and ranks among the first in the country. Mr. Armstrong has always been an earnest Republican and an advocate of clean politics and honest government. He is the nominee of the wing of the party for County Superintendent of Schools.
AUSTIN, ISAAC, of Oswego, was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, October 13, 1858. At the age of twenty-three he came to Oregon and located in Oswego in 1882, where he has since lived and followed his trade as carpenter. He is a member of the Republican Club, and represented it at the league in 1895.
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