Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. Dallas Oregon National Guard Armory. 1919. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League collection, on loan.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Polk County
Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. Dallas Oregon National Guard Armory. 1919. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Polk County
Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. Willamette Valley Lumber Company. 1910. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Polk County
Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. Dallas High School. 1910. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Polk County
Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. Dallas Business District. 1906. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League collection, on loan.
Wednesday, June 28, 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, pages 248-255.
MINTO, JOHN W., Chief of Police of Portland, was born in Marion County, Oregon, September 27, 1848, and was educated at the Willamette University. For years he followed stock-raising, and then was on the Salem police force, and finally became Chief. In 1884 he was elected Sheriff of Marion County, and again in 1886. In 1888 he came to Portland, and is engaged in the livery and feed business. In 1890 he was appointed Weigher at the United States custom house. In 1894 he was the Republican nominee for Sheriff, and was later appointed Chief of Police.
MINTO, WILLIAM JASPER, of Salem, was born near Salem, Oregon, April 25, 1855, and learned early to become a blacksmith and a moulder. From 1876 to 1879 he was engaged in the sheep business in Eastern Oregon. In 1880 he embarked in the truck and dray business in Salem, and has now an extensive livery business. He is an active Republican and has attended conventions and league meetings frequently. He served one term in the Salem city council. In 1895 he was appointed County Treasurer, and is now nominated for election to that office.
MITCHELL, JOHN H. [Editor inserted: John Hipple Mitchell born John Mitchell Hipple], of Portland, Senator from Oregon, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1835. The family soon moved to Butler County, and here he was reared on a farm and inured to hard work. He worked and studied and read law, and in this way acquired a good classical and legal education. In 1860 he came to the Pacific coast, and soon located in Portland. He at once took a prominent part in upholding the Union against the strong local Southern sentiment, and was soon elected to the state senate, and for four years was president of that body. In 1886 he only lacked one vote of the body in 1872. During the exciting controversy regarding the presidential election of 1876, Mr. Mitchell served as chairman of the senate committee on privileges and elections, and as such prepared the report on the Hayes-Tilden contest for the investigation in Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida and Oregon. It was a masterly document, and was the basis of the settlement of the controversy. He was again elected to the senate in 1885, and for a third time in 1891, senator Mitchell is now one of the oldest members of the body in length of service, and is one of the senators whose names are known from one end of the country to the other. He is also a member of the Judiciary Committee, and of a number of the important committee.
MOODY, RALPH E., an attorney of Portland, and son of ex-Governor Z. F. Moody, was born at The Dalles, Oregon, August 27, 1867, and graduated from the Willamette University in 1885, and from the Law School at Albany, New York, in 1887. For a time he was in the engineering department of the O. R. & N. Co., and then practiced law at Port Townsend, Washington, being elected District Attorney in 1890, and was also elected City Attorney, and by appointment, was Attorney for San Juan and Island counties. He was defeated for re-election by the democratic tidal wave of 1892. He began practice in Portland in 1893. In 1895 he was the Chief Clerk of the Oregon house of representatives, and in 1896 a delegate to the state convention.
MOFFETT, JAMES P., of Portland, was born in the city of Portland, Oregon, March 2, 1861, and is now in this thirty-sixth year, and in the flush of vigorous manhood. His ancestors were pioneers of 1845. His education was received at the old Portland Academy, the Bishop Scott Academy (Episcopal), and in the public schools of the city. After leaving school he commenced life in the office of the Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company, with which corporation he remained continuously for the period of fourteen year, rising from office boy to that of chief clerk and accountant, in which capacity he had 140 sun-agents reporting to him, and handled upwards of $200,000 a year in cash and accounts. His first advent into politics was in 1894, when the citizens of the Fourth Ward, the largest ward in the city, requested him to run for the position of councilman. He was elected by the largest vote of any councilman in the city, receiving over 1000 votes out of 1871 cast in the ward, and there were four other candidates in the field for the same office. The common council, of which Mr. Moffett is a member, was the first to take charge of the new City Hall. Mr. Moffett claims no credit, for he only did his duty in behalf of the taxpayers, and it is a matter of record that he has always been zealous in guarding their interests. The commendation of his constituents is his ample reward. Over a month ago he was importuned by his many friends to again be a candidate for re-election, but after returning thanks for the compliment paid him, respectfully declined the honor. Mr. Moffett has been attending the Law Department of the University of Oregon the past two years (night lectures), and has studied hard, and will go before the Supreme County in June for admission to the bar. He has always been a staunch and loyal Republican. Mr. Moffett, besides being chairman of the campaign committee of the Taxpayers’ League, is the vice-president of the Fourth Ward Republican Club, and active member of the Young Men’s Republican Club, and active member of the Multorpor Republicans Club, and belongs to the following orders: Portland Lodge of Elks, No. 142; Industry Lodge of Workmen, No. 8; Webfoot Camp of Woodmen, No. 65; Chinook Tribe of Redmen, No. 5, and is a Thirty-second Degree Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.
MONTGOMERY, HON. JAMES B., of Portland, was born at Montgomery Ferry, Pa., December 6, 1832. He learned the printer’s trade and for several years was editor of the Sandusky Daily Register and Pittsburg Morning Post. In 1858 he began railroad contracting and building, and in following that business came to Oregon in 1870 and built the first 100 miles of the Northern Pacific. He has had extensive contracts on railroads, and on government river improvements, and has also been extensively engaged in the lumber business. Originally a democrat, he became a republican when the Union was threatened. He was three times a delegate to the Republican state convention of Pennsylvania. In 1890 he was elected to the Oregon legislature from Multnomah County.
MORCOM, ELISHA P., of Woodburn was born at Dodgeville, Wisconsin, February 6, 1860, and came to Oregon in 1890. He spent three months in Portland, and a year in Silverton, and then settled in Woodburn in the practice of law. He is president of the Abraham Lincoln Club, and was a delegate to the league in 1895 and 1896, and the county convention of 1896. In 1894 he was nominated by the Prohibitionists for District Attorney, but made no campaign for the office, being a Republican from principal.
MOREY, HON. PARKER F., of Oregon City, president of the Portland General Electric Company, was born in Calais, Maine, October 16, 1847. He became a competent machinist and mechanical engineer. In 1866 he went to Placerville, California, and worked there in Sacramento as a machinist several years. He then was interested for a number of years in handling several mechanical inventions of his own, until he came to Portland to put in hydraulic elevator. He then organized the Portland Hydraulic Elevator Company, and introduced such elevators into Portland, using a special patent of his own. It was through his enterprise in fighting the old Water Company that Bull Run water is now in Portland. In 1883 he organized the United States Electric Lighting & Power Company, and later merged it into the Willamette Falls Electric Company, and still later into the Portland General Electric Company, which owns all the water power of the Willamette Falls, and much real estate adjacent, and supplies electric light and power at Oregon City and Portland, as well as much direct water power; has a capital of $4,250,000, and is by all means the greatest enterprise of this kind of the Pacific Coast. My. Morey has been continuously an active Republican, and was a member of the legislature in 1888-90.
MOODY, MALCOM A., of The Dalles, is a member of the executive committee of the Republican League of the United States, and of the Republican League of Oregon. HE is a son of ex-Governor Z. F. Moody, was born in Brownsville, Oregon, in 1854. In 1856 the family returned to New England, but came to Oregon again in 1862, locating at The Dalles. Mr. Moody was educated at the publican schools and the University of California. After leaving school he entered the general merchandise, grain and wool business at The Dalles, with his father. In 1887 the merchandise business at The Dalles National Bank, of which he has been continuously cashier. He is also manager of the extensive grain and wool business of his father, the largest in the state. From 1885 to 1889 he was a member of the city council of The Dalles, and in 1889 was elected Mayor, serving two terms. He has been continuously a delegate to county and state convention, and member of the county and state central committees, being one of the foremost leaders in Republican politics in Wasco County and in Eastern Oregon. He attended the National League Convention, at Cleveland, in 1894, as a delegate from Oregon. He was the candidate of the sound-money delegates for the congressional nomination in the Second District in 1896, receiving fifty-three votes, five short of majority, and but for the local contest in Multnomah County would have been nominated by a large majority.
MOODY, HON. Z. F. [Editor inserted: Zenas Ferry Moody], of The Dalles and Salem, ex-Governor of Oregon, was born in Granby, Massachusetts, May 27, 1832. In 1851 he came to Oregon. For ten years he was engaged in United States surveys. He engaged in business in Brownsville in 1853. In 1856 he was appointed Inspector of United States surveys in California , and then went to Illinois, where he lived four years and was one term Assessor of Morgan County. He was in Washington when Sumpter was fired upon, and joined an emergency company. In 1862 he returned to Oregon and engaged in merchandising at The Dalles, where he has now the largest wool warehouse on the Pacific Coast, and handles more wool direct from the producers than any other man in the world. From 1863 to 1875 he was engaged in various lines of business in Oregon and Idaho, in the latter year founding his business at The Dalles. In 1872 he was elected senator from Wasco County, but did not take his seat. In 1880 he was elected to the house, and becamse speaker of that body. In 1882 he was elected governor.
MOOMAW, DAVID L., of Baker City, was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, and came to Oregon in 1858. He lived in Oregon City till 1870, when he settled in Baker City, and has since been a central figure in Republican politics in that county. Since 1872 he has been a delegate to nearly every county convention, and to the state convention from 1878 to 1892. Mr. Moomaw was Deputy Sheriff in 1874 and 1876, and Deputy United States Marshal from 1878 to 1885, and again during Harrison’s administration. In 1882 he was the Republican nominee for the legislature. He is engaged in mining and speculation, and is one of the progressive men of Eastern Oregon.
MOORE, HON. CHAS. S [Editor inserted: Charles S. Moore], of Klamath Falls, is a leading business man and attorney of Southern Oregon. He has been prominent in Republican work for years, as d delegate to conventions, league meetings and member of county and state central committees, and is County Judge of Klamath County. Judge Moore is a delegate to the next national convention.
MOORE, HON. FRANK A., of St. Helens, and Justice of the Supreme Court, was born at Ellsworth, Maine, November 5, 1844. In his early youth he settled in Iowa, and in 1876 came to Oregon, locating at St. Helens. He taught school and studied law, and was soon admitted to the bar, beginning the practice of his profession at once. In 1882 he was unanimously nominated for County Judge. He declined renomination at the end of his four years of service. In 1888 he was elected Joint Senator, and served two sessions. In 1890 he was chosen secretary of the state central committee. In 1892 he was elected a Justice of the Supreme County, which position he now fills with credit to himself and his party.
MOORE, FRANK L., of baker City, was born in Lane County, Oregon, November 7, 1861, and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1887. In 1888 he was elected Superintendent of Schools, and in 1892 became the first president of the Republican Club, of which he is still an active member.
MOORE, CAPTAIN DANIEL J., Clerk of the Circuit Court of Multnomah County, was born in Iowa in 1861, and came to Oregon in 1873. He began life in the office of the Eugene Guard, was a newsboy on local trains, a bell boy at the Clarendon Hotel, Portland, a messenger boy for the Oregon & California, then clerk in the freight and passenger office, then bill clerk in the O. R. & N. Co., then chief bill clerk of the ocean and river division, and finally ticket agent, at the Ash Street wharf. Two years later he took charge of the Oregonian routes and managed the Pioneer Wood yard. In 1894 he was nominated and elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, and is again nominated or that position on one of the Republican tickets. He has been a member of the National Guard since 1886, and is now Brigade Commissary, with the rank of Captain. He is secretary of the Mulorpor Republican Club.
MOORE, WALTER H., a member of the executive committee of the Republican League of Oregon, is engaged in general merchandising at Moro. He was born in Ogle County, Illinois, June 16, 1854, and came to Oregon in 1881. He farmed in Wasco County three years, and then located in Moro. He has been a delegate to every county convention since 1884, to the state conventions of 1888, 1890, 1894 and 1896, and the district conventions of 1894 and 1896. He was a delegate to the State League in 1895 and 1896, and at the latter was elected member of the executive committee from the Second District. He has been chairman of the county central committee and member of the state central committee, and is now the nominee for the senate from Sherman, Wasco and Gilliam counties.
MOORHEAD, HON. STEELE L., of Junction City, was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 11, 1852. At the age of seventeen he went to Rockport, Missouri, and learned the printer’s trade on the Atchison County Journal, of which he was afterwards editor and manager six years. He founded the Times at Ness City, Kansas , in 1888, and in 1891 came to Oregon and founded Junction City Times, of which he is still editor and publisher. In 1892 he was elected City Recorder, and Mayer in 1893. In 1894 he was elected to the legislature, and has been renominated. He has been a delegate to conventions and league meetings for five years.
MORELAND, J. C. [Editor inserted: Julius C. Moreland], of Portland, was born June 10, 1844, in Tennessee. Soon after the family moved to Illinois and crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852, settling in Clackamas County. In 1860 young Moreland began learning the printer’s trade, in Portland. He worked and attended the Portland Academy at intervals. In 1864 he was foreman of the state printing office, under H. L. Pittock. He continued to work as a printer and read law. In 1867 he was admitted to the bar of Washington territory, and began to practice in Boise, Idaho, but resumed his trade for time as foreman of the Boise Statesman, and then of the Portland Oregonian. He then formed a partnership with John F. Caples and resumed the practice of law. Judge Moreland has always been an active Republican, and for years has been in attendance at conventions and club meetings, and has spoken in campaigns. In 1872 he was elected a member of the city council, and served five years. In 1885 Governor Moody appointed him County Judge, to fill a vacancy of five months. In 1890 he was elected to the same office, retiring in 1894.
MORELAND, HON. SAMUEL A., was born in Jackson County, Tennessee, November 1, 1836, and came to Oregon in 1852. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1863. In 1865 he was elected Assessor of Portland. In 1870 he was elected Justice of the Peace. In 1872 he became an editorial writer on the Oregonian, and in 1881 became editor of the Evening Telegram. Later he was appointed Police Judge, and occupied that position at the time of his sudden death in March, 1886.
MOORES, HON. CHARLES B., of Salem, was born in Benton, Missouri, August 6, 1849, and crossed the plains three years later. He graduated from the Willamette University in 1870. For five years he was a draughtsman in the O. & C. railroad office, at Portland. He then spent three years in the East, at a business college in Washington City, and in the law departments of the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan, graduating from the latter. He began practice in Salem. In 1880 he was elected Chief Clerk of the house of representatives. In 1882 he became Private Secretary to Governor Z. F. Moody, remaining four years. He is extensively interested in a number of enterprises at Salem, and in fruit culture. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Willamette University, and has been a member of the city council. He has done much active political work, and has been a member of county and state conventions and league meetings. In 1894 he was elected to the legislature, and was chosen Speaker of the house.
MOORES, HON. ISAAC R., deceased, father of John H., and grandfather of Charles G. and A. N., was a native of Kentucky. HE served in the Seminole, Black Hawk and Mexican wars. In 1852 he came and was a member of the constitutional convention. He became a Republican and was nominated for the state senate in 1860. HE attended the state conventions and was a member of the state central committee.
MOORES, HON. JOHN H., deceased, was born at Huntsville, Alabama, June 21, 1821, and spent his youth at Danville, Illinois. He engaged in merchandising at Benton, Missouri. In 1852 he came to Oregon, and engaged in merchandising in Salem, and later in flour and lumber milling, till his death, December 16, 1880. He was a Republican from the beginning. He was Postmaster at Salem, a member of the city council four terms, Mayor, County Treasurer several terms, and from 1870 to 1874 a member of the sate senate. He was a member of county and state conventions, and the state central committee.
MORRIS, P. G., of Lebanon and Albany, was born in Wasco County, Oregon, March 21, 1861, and has lived in Linn County, on a farm, for a number of years. He has always been a Republican worker and is a member of the Lebanon Club. In 1894 he was elected County Treasurer, and is again nominated for that office.
MUIR, THOMAS K,, of Portland, was born in the East Indies, and came to Oregon some eighteen months ago, locating in Portland. He is a contractor and dealer in asphalts, and has done a great deal of this work in Europe and this county, and recently upon reservoirs of Portland. Mr. Muir is an earnest Republican and zealous for party success. He is also an active and enthusiastic member of the Oregon National Guard.
MULKEY, B. F. [Editor inserted: Benjamin Franklin Mulkey], of Dallas, was born in Williamson County, Illinois, June 26, 1862. Ten years later he came to Oregon, locating near Eugene. He graduated at the Monmouth Normal School in 1887, and is by profession a teacher. From 1887 to 1892 he had charge of the Bethel Academy, and during the latter year was president of the Polk County Teachers’ Association. He has been a delegate to the State League meetings twice, and once to the state convention. HE is president of the Dallas Republican Club. In 1892 he was elected County Clerk, and again in 1894. Mr. Mulky is a fluent speaker and a good campaigner, and is the Republican nominee for the state senate.
MULLER, MAX, a merchant of Jacksonville, was born in Reckendorf, Bavaria, January 20, 1836, and came to Oregon in 1855, locating in Jacksonville, and has lived there ever since. He is one of the old Republicans, having been a delegate to county conventions ever since 1862, and sate conventions from 1870 to 1886. In 1868 he was elected County Treasurer, was Postmaster from 1870 to 1888, and was elected County Clerk in 1888, 1890 and 1892.
MULKEY, HON. MARION F., deceased, was born in Johnson County, Missouri, November 14, 1836, and ten years later came to Oregon. He served in the Indian War of 1855-1856. In 1862 he graduated from Yale College . In 1863 he acted as Assistant Provost Marshal for Oregon. In 1864 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1866 was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the Fourth District. In 1867 he was elected to the city council, in 1872 City Attorney, and again in 1873. He then practiced law in partnership with Hon. John F. Caples till his death, February 25, 1889, constantly taking a prominent part in Republican party work.
MYERS, HON. GEORGE T., of Portland, is closely identified with the salmon canning industry, in which he has been engaged for years. He is an active Republican, and has attended conventions and league meetings frequently. Mr. Myers was president of the Oregon World’s Fair Commission, which achieved the remarkable record of making a fine display and yet turning back a portion of its appropriation. Mr. Myers was elected to the legislature in 1892 and again in 1894.
NASBURG, ANDREW, of Marshfield, was born in the Parish of Forsa, near Hudixwell, Sweden, July 8, 1839, and came to America ten years later, settling in Illinois. In 1859 he came to Oregon and began work in a saw miss at Port Orford. In 1864 he embarked in mercantile business there. Three years later he sold out, and purchased a farm near Marshfield. In 1869 he opened a store in Marshfield, where he remained. He was for years a leading Republican of Coos county, and represented it repeatedly in state conventions and as a member of the state central committee.
NEEDHAM, NATHAN, of Albany, was born in Appanoose County, Iowa, May 3, 1858, and came to Oregon in 1889, locating at Corvallis, and a year later in Linn County. He is the owner of an orchard near Oakville. He has always been a Republican, and is a member of the Orleans Club. He was a delegate to the county convention in 1894, and club convention in 1895 and 1896. In 1894 he was elected County Clerk, and has again been nominated by the Republicans.
NEWPORT, N. M. [Editor inserted: Nathaniel Monroe Newport], a prominent attorney of Albany, was born at Buffalo, Missouri, March 12, 1864, and came to Oregon in 1880, locating in Astoria. He graduated from the literary department of the Willamette University in 1890, and the law department in 1892. The same years he was admitted to the bar and began practice in Albany. He was Justice of the Peace in 1891-92, and was elected City Attorney in 1894. He was one of the prime movers in organizing the Albany Republican Club, and was a delegate to the league in 1896. In 1894 he was a member of the county convention, and stumped the county for the successful ticket.
NEWBURY, Hon. W. S. [ Editor inserted: William S. Newbury], a prominent lawyer of Portland, was born at Ripley, Ney York, September 19, 1834. As a boy he was employed in stores in Chicago and studied law and book-keeping at Fox Lake and Madison, Wisconsin. For several years he had charge of the Sixth Kansas Infantry, and was commissioned Lieutenant. In 1864 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State. He was admitted to the bar, and in 1870 was elected Mayor of Iola, Kansas. He soon after came to Portland, and in 1887 was elected Mayor.
NORTHUP, HON. HENRY H., of Portland, County Judge of Multnomah, was born in Berkshire, Massachusetts, February 29, 1839. After completing his education, paid for by his own labor, he became a tutor in the Western University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and in Anamosa, Iowa, where he studied law. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the First Iowa, and was at the battle of Wilson Creek, mustered out in the fall of 1861, re-enlisted in the spring of 1862, and mustered out in the fall of 1863. His health not permitting re-enlistment, he taught school, held a government clerkship, and read law, till he graduated from the Columbia College Law School in 1868, and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme County of the District of Columbia. In 1871 he came to Oregon and began practice in Portland. From 1873 to 1878 he was Register in Bankruptcy. In 1888 and 1892, he was elected to the legislature, and in 1894 was elected County Judge of Multnomah County. Judge Northup is now an independent candidate for congress on a sound-money platform.
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, pages 248-255.
MINTO, JOHN W., Chief of Police of Portland, was born in Marion County, Oregon, September 27, 1848, and was educated at the Willamette University. For years he followed stock-raising, and then was on the Salem police force, and finally became Chief. In 1884 he was elected Sheriff of Marion County, and again in 1886. In 1888 he came to Portland, and is engaged in the livery and feed business. In 1890 he was appointed Weigher at the United States custom house. In 1894 he was the Republican nominee for Sheriff, and was later appointed Chief of Police.
MINTO, WILLIAM JASPER, of Salem, was born near Salem, Oregon, April 25, 1855, and learned early to become a blacksmith and a moulder. From 1876 to 1879 he was engaged in the sheep business in Eastern Oregon. In 1880 he embarked in the truck and dray business in Salem, and has now an extensive livery business. He is an active Republican and has attended conventions and league meetings frequently. He served one term in the Salem city council. In 1895 he was appointed County Treasurer, and is now nominated for election to that office.
MITCHELL, JOHN H. [Editor inserted: John Hipple Mitchell born John Mitchell Hipple], of Portland, Senator from Oregon, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1835. The family soon moved to Butler County, and here he was reared on a farm and inured to hard work. He worked and studied and read law, and in this way acquired a good classical and legal education. In 1860 he came to the Pacific coast, and soon located in Portland. He at once took a prominent part in upholding the Union against the strong local Southern sentiment, and was soon elected to the state senate, and for four years was president of that body. In 1886 he only lacked one vote of the body in 1872. During the exciting controversy regarding the presidential election of 1876, Mr. Mitchell served as chairman of the senate committee on privileges and elections, and as such prepared the report on the Hayes-Tilden contest for the investigation in Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida and Oregon. It was a masterly document, and was the basis of the settlement of the controversy. He was again elected to the senate in 1885, and for a third time in 1891, senator Mitchell is now one of the oldest members of the body in length of service, and is one of the senators whose names are known from one end of the country to the other. He is also a member of the Judiciary Committee, and of a number of the important committee.
MOODY, RALPH E., an attorney of Portland, and son of ex-Governor Z. F. Moody, was born at The Dalles, Oregon, August 27, 1867, and graduated from the Willamette University in 1885, and from the Law School at Albany, New York, in 1887. For a time he was in the engineering department of the O. R. & N. Co., and then practiced law at Port Townsend, Washington, being elected District Attorney in 1890, and was also elected City Attorney, and by appointment, was Attorney for San Juan and Island counties. He was defeated for re-election by the democratic tidal wave of 1892. He began practice in Portland in 1893. In 1895 he was the Chief Clerk of the Oregon house of representatives, and in 1896 a delegate to the state convention.
MOFFETT, JAMES P., of Portland, was born in the city of Portland, Oregon, March 2, 1861, and is now in this thirty-sixth year, and in the flush of vigorous manhood. His ancestors were pioneers of 1845. His education was received at the old Portland Academy, the Bishop Scott Academy (Episcopal), and in the public schools of the city. After leaving school he commenced life in the office of the Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company, with which corporation he remained continuously for the period of fourteen year, rising from office boy to that of chief clerk and accountant, in which capacity he had 140 sun-agents reporting to him, and handled upwards of $200,000 a year in cash and accounts. His first advent into politics was in 1894, when the citizens of the Fourth Ward, the largest ward in the city, requested him to run for the position of councilman. He was elected by the largest vote of any councilman in the city, receiving over 1000 votes out of 1871 cast in the ward, and there were four other candidates in the field for the same office. The common council, of which Mr. Moffett is a member, was the first to take charge of the new City Hall. Mr. Moffett claims no credit, for he only did his duty in behalf of the taxpayers, and it is a matter of record that he has always been zealous in guarding their interests. The commendation of his constituents is his ample reward. Over a month ago he was importuned by his many friends to again be a candidate for re-election, but after returning thanks for the compliment paid him, respectfully declined the honor. Mr. Moffett has been attending the Law Department of the University of Oregon the past two years (night lectures), and has studied hard, and will go before the Supreme County in June for admission to the bar. He has always been a staunch and loyal Republican. Mr. Moffett, besides being chairman of the campaign committee of the Taxpayers’ League, is the vice-president of the Fourth Ward Republican Club, and active member of the Young Men’s Republican Club, and active member of the Multorpor Republicans Club, and belongs to the following orders: Portland Lodge of Elks, No. 142; Industry Lodge of Workmen, No. 8; Webfoot Camp of Woodmen, No. 65; Chinook Tribe of Redmen, No. 5, and is a Thirty-second Degree Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.
MONTGOMERY, HON. JAMES B., of Portland, was born at Montgomery Ferry, Pa., December 6, 1832. He learned the printer’s trade and for several years was editor of the Sandusky Daily Register and Pittsburg Morning Post. In 1858 he began railroad contracting and building, and in following that business came to Oregon in 1870 and built the first 100 miles of the Northern Pacific. He has had extensive contracts on railroads, and on government river improvements, and has also been extensively engaged in the lumber business. Originally a democrat, he became a republican when the Union was threatened. He was three times a delegate to the Republican state convention of Pennsylvania. In 1890 he was elected to the Oregon legislature from Multnomah County.
MORCOM, ELISHA P., of Woodburn was born at Dodgeville, Wisconsin, February 6, 1860, and came to Oregon in 1890. He spent three months in Portland, and a year in Silverton, and then settled in Woodburn in the practice of law. He is president of the Abraham Lincoln Club, and was a delegate to the league in 1895 and 1896, and the county convention of 1896. In 1894 he was nominated by the Prohibitionists for District Attorney, but made no campaign for the office, being a Republican from principal.
MOREY, HON. PARKER F., of Oregon City, president of the Portland General Electric Company, was born in Calais, Maine, October 16, 1847. He became a competent machinist and mechanical engineer. In 1866 he went to Placerville, California, and worked there in Sacramento as a machinist several years. He then was interested for a number of years in handling several mechanical inventions of his own, until he came to Portland to put in hydraulic elevator. He then organized the Portland Hydraulic Elevator Company, and introduced such elevators into Portland, using a special patent of his own. It was through his enterprise in fighting the old Water Company that Bull Run water is now in Portland. In 1883 he organized the United States Electric Lighting & Power Company, and later merged it into the Willamette Falls Electric Company, and still later into the Portland General Electric Company, which owns all the water power of the Willamette Falls, and much real estate adjacent, and supplies electric light and power at Oregon City and Portland, as well as much direct water power; has a capital of $4,250,000, and is by all means the greatest enterprise of this kind of the Pacific Coast. My. Morey has been continuously an active Republican, and was a member of the legislature in 1888-90.
MOODY, MALCOM A., of The Dalles, is a member of the executive committee of the Republican League of the United States, and of the Republican League of Oregon. HE is a son of ex-Governor Z. F. Moody, was born in Brownsville, Oregon, in 1854. In 1856 the family returned to New England, but came to Oregon again in 1862, locating at The Dalles. Mr. Moody was educated at the publican schools and the University of California. After leaving school he entered the general merchandise, grain and wool business at The Dalles, with his father. In 1887 the merchandise business at The Dalles National Bank, of which he has been continuously cashier. He is also manager of the extensive grain and wool business of his father, the largest in the state. From 1885 to 1889 he was a member of the city council of The Dalles, and in 1889 was elected Mayor, serving two terms. He has been continuously a delegate to county and state convention, and member of the county and state central committees, being one of the foremost leaders in Republican politics in Wasco County and in Eastern Oregon. He attended the National League Convention, at Cleveland, in 1894, as a delegate from Oregon. He was the candidate of the sound-money delegates for the congressional nomination in the Second District in 1896, receiving fifty-three votes, five short of majority, and but for the local contest in Multnomah County would have been nominated by a large majority.
MOODY, HON. Z. F. [Editor inserted: Zenas Ferry Moody], of The Dalles and Salem, ex-Governor of Oregon, was born in Granby, Massachusetts, May 27, 1832. In 1851 he came to Oregon. For ten years he was engaged in United States surveys. He engaged in business in Brownsville in 1853. In 1856 he was appointed Inspector of United States surveys in California , and then went to Illinois, where he lived four years and was one term Assessor of Morgan County. He was in Washington when Sumpter was fired upon, and joined an emergency company. In 1862 he returned to Oregon and engaged in merchandising at The Dalles, where he has now the largest wool warehouse on the Pacific Coast, and handles more wool direct from the producers than any other man in the world. From 1863 to 1875 he was engaged in various lines of business in Oregon and Idaho, in the latter year founding his business at The Dalles. In 1872 he was elected senator from Wasco County, but did not take his seat. In 1880 he was elected to the house, and becamse speaker of that body. In 1882 he was elected governor.
MOOMAW, DAVID L., of Baker City, was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, and came to Oregon in 1858. He lived in Oregon City till 1870, when he settled in Baker City, and has since been a central figure in Republican politics in that county. Since 1872 he has been a delegate to nearly every county convention, and to the state convention from 1878 to 1892. Mr. Moomaw was Deputy Sheriff in 1874 and 1876, and Deputy United States Marshal from 1878 to 1885, and again during Harrison’s administration. In 1882 he was the Republican nominee for the legislature. He is engaged in mining and speculation, and is one of the progressive men of Eastern Oregon.
MOORE, HON. CHAS. S [Editor inserted: Charles S. Moore], of Klamath Falls, is a leading business man and attorney of Southern Oregon. He has been prominent in Republican work for years, as d delegate to conventions, league meetings and member of county and state central committees, and is County Judge of Klamath County. Judge Moore is a delegate to the next national convention.
MOORE, HON. FRANK A., of St. Helens, and Justice of the Supreme Court, was born at Ellsworth, Maine, November 5, 1844. In his early youth he settled in Iowa, and in 1876 came to Oregon, locating at St. Helens. He taught school and studied law, and was soon admitted to the bar, beginning the practice of his profession at once. In 1882 he was unanimously nominated for County Judge. He declined renomination at the end of his four years of service. In 1888 he was elected Joint Senator, and served two sessions. In 1890 he was chosen secretary of the state central committee. In 1892 he was elected a Justice of the Supreme County, which position he now fills with credit to himself and his party.
MOORE, FRANK L., of baker City, was born in Lane County, Oregon, November 7, 1861, and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1887. In 1888 he was elected Superintendent of Schools, and in 1892 became the first president of the Republican Club, of which he is still an active member.
MOORE, CAPTAIN DANIEL J., Clerk of the Circuit Court of Multnomah County, was born in Iowa in 1861, and came to Oregon in 1873. He began life in the office of the Eugene Guard, was a newsboy on local trains, a bell boy at the Clarendon Hotel, Portland, a messenger boy for the Oregon & California, then clerk in the freight and passenger office, then bill clerk in the O. R. & N. Co., then chief bill clerk of the ocean and river division, and finally ticket agent, at the Ash Street wharf. Two years later he took charge of the Oregonian routes and managed the Pioneer Wood yard. In 1894 he was nominated and elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, and is again nominated or that position on one of the Republican tickets. He has been a member of the National Guard since 1886, and is now Brigade Commissary, with the rank of Captain. He is secretary of the Mulorpor Republican Club.
MOORE, WALTER H., a member of the executive committee of the Republican League of Oregon, is engaged in general merchandising at Moro. He was born in Ogle County, Illinois, June 16, 1854, and came to Oregon in 1881. He farmed in Wasco County three years, and then located in Moro. He has been a delegate to every county convention since 1884, to the state conventions of 1888, 1890, 1894 and 1896, and the district conventions of 1894 and 1896. He was a delegate to the State League in 1895 and 1896, and at the latter was elected member of the executive committee from the Second District. He has been chairman of the county central committee and member of the state central committee, and is now the nominee for the senate from Sherman, Wasco and Gilliam counties.
MOORHEAD, HON. STEELE L., of Junction City, was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 11, 1852. At the age of seventeen he went to Rockport, Missouri, and learned the printer’s trade on the Atchison County Journal, of which he was afterwards editor and manager six years. He founded the Times at Ness City, Kansas , in 1888, and in 1891 came to Oregon and founded Junction City Times, of which he is still editor and publisher. In 1892 he was elected City Recorder, and Mayer in 1893. In 1894 he was elected to the legislature, and has been renominated. He has been a delegate to conventions and league meetings for five years.
MORELAND, J. C. [Editor inserted: Julius C. Moreland], of Portland, was born June 10, 1844, in Tennessee. Soon after the family moved to Illinois and crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852, settling in Clackamas County. In 1860 young Moreland began learning the printer’s trade, in Portland. He worked and attended the Portland Academy at intervals. In 1864 he was foreman of the state printing office, under H. L. Pittock. He continued to work as a printer and read law. In 1867 he was admitted to the bar of Washington territory, and began to practice in Boise, Idaho, but resumed his trade for time as foreman of the Boise Statesman, and then of the Portland Oregonian. He then formed a partnership with John F. Caples and resumed the practice of law. Judge Moreland has always been an active Republican, and for years has been in attendance at conventions and club meetings, and has spoken in campaigns. In 1872 he was elected a member of the city council, and served five years. In 1885 Governor Moody appointed him County Judge, to fill a vacancy of five months. In 1890 he was elected to the same office, retiring in 1894.
MORELAND, HON. SAMUEL A., was born in Jackson County, Tennessee, November 1, 1836, and came to Oregon in 1852. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1863. In 1865 he was elected Assessor of Portland. In 1870 he was elected Justice of the Peace. In 1872 he became an editorial writer on the Oregonian, and in 1881 became editor of the Evening Telegram. Later he was appointed Police Judge, and occupied that position at the time of his sudden death in March, 1886.
MOORES, HON. CHARLES B., of Salem, was born in Benton, Missouri, August 6, 1849, and crossed the plains three years later. He graduated from the Willamette University in 1870. For five years he was a draughtsman in the O. & C. railroad office, at Portland. He then spent three years in the East, at a business college in Washington City, and in the law departments of the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan, graduating from the latter. He began practice in Salem. In 1880 he was elected Chief Clerk of the house of representatives. In 1882 he became Private Secretary to Governor Z. F. Moody, remaining four years. He is extensively interested in a number of enterprises at Salem, and in fruit culture. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Willamette University, and has been a member of the city council. He has done much active political work, and has been a member of county and state conventions and league meetings. In 1894 he was elected to the legislature, and was chosen Speaker of the house.
MOORES, HON. ISAAC R., deceased, father of John H., and grandfather of Charles G. and A. N., was a native of Kentucky. HE served in the Seminole, Black Hawk and Mexican wars. In 1852 he came and was a member of the constitutional convention. He became a Republican and was nominated for the state senate in 1860. HE attended the state conventions and was a member of the state central committee.
MOORES, HON. JOHN H., deceased, was born at Huntsville, Alabama, June 21, 1821, and spent his youth at Danville, Illinois. He engaged in merchandising at Benton, Missouri. In 1852 he came to Oregon, and engaged in merchandising in Salem, and later in flour and lumber milling, till his death, December 16, 1880. He was a Republican from the beginning. He was Postmaster at Salem, a member of the city council four terms, Mayor, County Treasurer several terms, and from 1870 to 1874 a member of the sate senate. He was a member of county and state conventions, and the state central committee.
MORRIS, P. G., of Lebanon and Albany, was born in Wasco County, Oregon, March 21, 1861, and has lived in Linn County, on a farm, for a number of years. He has always been a Republican worker and is a member of the Lebanon Club. In 1894 he was elected County Treasurer, and is again nominated for that office.
MUIR, THOMAS K,, of Portland, was born in the East Indies, and came to Oregon some eighteen months ago, locating in Portland. He is a contractor and dealer in asphalts, and has done a great deal of this work in Europe and this county, and recently upon reservoirs of Portland. Mr. Muir is an earnest Republican and zealous for party success. He is also an active and enthusiastic member of the Oregon National Guard.
MULKEY, B. F. [Editor inserted: Benjamin Franklin Mulkey], of Dallas, was born in Williamson County, Illinois, June 26, 1862. Ten years later he came to Oregon, locating near Eugene. He graduated at the Monmouth Normal School in 1887, and is by profession a teacher. From 1887 to 1892 he had charge of the Bethel Academy, and during the latter year was president of the Polk County Teachers’ Association. He has been a delegate to the State League meetings twice, and once to the state convention. HE is president of the Dallas Republican Club. In 1892 he was elected County Clerk, and again in 1894. Mr. Mulky is a fluent speaker and a good campaigner, and is the Republican nominee for the state senate.
MULLER, MAX, a merchant of Jacksonville, was born in Reckendorf, Bavaria, January 20, 1836, and came to Oregon in 1855, locating in Jacksonville, and has lived there ever since. He is one of the old Republicans, having been a delegate to county conventions ever since 1862, and sate conventions from 1870 to 1886. In 1868 he was elected County Treasurer, was Postmaster from 1870 to 1888, and was elected County Clerk in 1888, 1890 and 1892.
MULKEY, HON. MARION F., deceased, was born in Johnson County, Missouri, November 14, 1836, and ten years later came to Oregon. He served in the Indian War of 1855-1856. In 1862 he graduated from Yale College . In 1863 he acted as Assistant Provost Marshal for Oregon. In 1864 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1866 was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the Fourth District. In 1867 he was elected to the city council, in 1872 City Attorney, and again in 1873. He then practiced law in partnership with Hon. John F. Caples till his death, February 25, 1889, constantly taking a prominent part in Republican party work.
MYERS, HON. GEORGE T., of Portland, is closely identified with the salmon canning industry, in which he has been engaged for years. He is an active Republican, and has attended conventions and league meetings frequently. Mr. Myers was president of the Oregon World’s Fair Commission, which achieved the remarkable record of making a fine display and yet turning back a portion of its appropriation. Mr. Myers was elected to the legislature in 1892 and again in 1894.
NASBURG, ANDREW, of Marshfield, was born in the Parish of Forsa, near Hudixwell, Sweden, July 8, 1839, and came to America ten years later, settling in Illinois. In 1859 he came to Oregon and began work in a saw miss at Port Orford. In 1864 he embarked in mercantile business there. Three years later he sold out, and purchased a farm near Marshfield. In 1869 he opened a store in Marshfield, where he remained. He was for years a leading Republican of Coos county, and represented it repeatedly in state conventions and as a member of the state central committee.
NEEDHAM, NATHAN, of Albany, was born in Appanoose County, Iowa, May 3, 1858, and came to Oregon in 1889, locating at Corvallis, and a year later in Linn County. He is the owner of an orchard near Oakville. He has always been a Republican, and is a member of the Orleans Club. He was a delegate to the county convention in 1894, and club convention in 1895 and 1896. In 1894 he was elected County Clerk, and has again been nominated by the Republicans.
NEWPORT, N. M. [Editor inserted: Nathaniel Monroe Newport], a prominent attorney of Albany, was born at Buffalo, Missouri, March 12, 1864, and came to Oregon in 1880, locating in Astoria. He graduated from the literary department of the Willamette University in 1890, and the law department in 1892. The same years he was admitted to the bar and began practice in Albany. He was Justice of the Peace in 1891-92, and was elected City Attorney in 1894. He was one of the prime movers in organizing the Albany Republican Club, and was a delegate to the league in 1896. In 1894 he was a member of the county convention, and stumped the county for the successful ticket.
NEWBURY, Hon. W. S. [ Editor inserted: William S. Newbury], a prominent lawyer of Portland, was born at Ripley, Ney York, September 19, 1834. As a boy he was employed in stores in Chicago and studied law and book-keeping at Fox Lake and Madison, Wisconsin. For several years he had charge of the Sixth Kansas Infantry, and was commissioned Lieutenant. In 1864 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State. He was admitted to the bar, and in 1870 was elected Mayor of Iola, Kansas. He soon after came to Portland, and in 1887 was elected Mayor.
NORTHUP, HON. HENRY H., of Portland, County Judge of Multnomah, was born in Berkshire, Massachusetts, February 29, 1839. After completing his education, paid for by his own labor, he became a tutor in the Western University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and in Anamosa, Iowa, where he studied law. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the First Iowa, and was at the battle of Wilson Creek, mustered out in the fall of 1861, re-enlisted in the spring of 1862, and mustered out in the fall of 1863. His health not permitting re-enlistment, he taught school, held a government clerkship, and read law, till he graduated from the Columbia College Law School in 1868, and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme County of the District of Columbia. In 1871 he came to Oregon and began practice in Portland. From 1873 to 1878 he was Register in Bankruptcy. In 1888 and 1892, he was elected to the legislature, and in 1894 was elected County Judge of Multnomah County. Judge Northup is now an independent candidate for congress on a sound-money platform.
Monday, June 26, 2006
Friday, June 23, 2006
JUNE 29th EVENT ALERT: State House Candidates Joan Draper and Dom Biggi
EVENT ALERT: State House Candidates Joan Draper and Dom Biggi
ATTENTION: WASHINGTON COUNTY AREA COLLEGE-AGE REPUBLICANS
Come greet the candidates, bowl a bit, get some eats and meet some new friends. This meet and greet event is free, and $10 covers pizza, drinks, shoe rental and bowling.
PLEASE plan to attend.
Valley Lanes
9300 SE Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway
Beaverton, OR 97005
June 29th, 2006. 7:00 PM
Any questions, please contact Megan at: Hq@washcorep.org
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 34TH DISTRICT
Joan Draper (REPUBLICAN)
1783 NW 143RD AVE #21
PORTLAND, OR 97229-4358
(503)617-1549(H), (503)329-1316(W)
Campaign Website: http://www.joandraperforstaterep.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 27TH DISTRICT
Domonic Biggi (REPUBLICAN)
7905 SW CEDAR ST #42
PORTLAND, OR 97225
(503)869-2101(H), (503)924-4039(W)
Fax: (503)924-4010
Campaign Website: http://www.biggiforstaterep.com
ATTENTION: WASHINGTON COUNTY AREA COLLEGE-AGE REPUBLICANS
Come greet the candidates, bowl a bit, get some eats and meet some new friends. This meet and greet event is free, and $10 covers pizza, drinks, shoe rental and bowling.
PLEASE plan to attend.
Valley Lanes
9300 SE Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway
Beaverton, OR 97005
June 29th, 2006. 7:00 PM
Any questions, please contact Megan at: Hq@washcorep.org
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 34TH DISTRICT
Joan Draper (REPUBLICAN)
1783 NW 143RD AVE #21
PORTLAND, OR 97229-4358
(503)617-1549(H), (503)329-1316(W)
Campaign Website: http://www.joandraperforstaterep.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 27TH DISTRICT
Domonic Biggi (REPUBLICAN)
7905 SW CEDAR ST #42
PORTLAND, OR 97225
(503)869-2101(H), (503)924-4039(W)
Fax: (503)924-4010
Campaign Website: http://www.biggiforstaterep.com
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 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, pages 241-247.
McBride, George W., of St. Helens, now United States Senator from Oregon, is a son of Dr. James McBride, one of the pioneers of Oregon, is a son of Dr. James McBride, one of the pioneers of Oregon, and one of the founders of the Republican party in the state. He was born in Yamhill County in 1854, and was educated at the Willamette University, at Salem, and the Christian College, at Monmouth. In 1867 the family located near St.Helens, where he has made his home ever since. His antecedents made his strong Republicanism a certainty. In 1882 he was elected to the legislature, and was made speaker of the house. In 1886 he was elected Secretary of the State, though both the Republican candidates for Governor and Treasurer were defeated. He was renominated by acclamation in 1890, and again elected. In but a little more than a month after his retirement from office he was elected United States Senator, to succeed Senator Dolph, after a deadlock that lasted until within a few minutes of the close of the session. He has battled manfully with ill health all his life, and has succeeded against obstacles a man of less strength of character would have found unsurmountable.
McBride, Dr. James, deceased, father of John R., Thomas A., and George W., all so prominently identified with the Republican party in Oregon, was born in Tennessee, in 1801, and came to Oregon in 1845. He lived In Yamhill County till 1870, when he went to St. Helens, where he died December 18, 1875. Dr. McBride was one of the founders of the party in Oregon, and was a United States Minister to Hawaii from 1863 to 1866.
MCBRIDE, HON. JOHN R., an attorney of Spokane Falls, Washington, and brother of George W. and Thomas A., came to Oregon with his parents in1845. HE was secretary of the first meeting in Yamhill County, in 1856, to organize the Republican party in Oregon, and in 1858 was the first republican nominee for congress. He was elected to the constitutional convention in 1857, the only person in that body elected as a strait Republican. In 1862 he was again nominated for congress and elected. He was a member of the state conventions of 1857, 1858, and 1859.
MCBRIDE, HON. THOMAS A., was born in Yamhill County, Oregon, in 1847. He was educated at McMinnville College, and was admitted to the bar in 1870. He has lived in St. Helens since 1870. HE has frequently been a member of county and state conventions and central committees. He has served Columbia County in the legislature. In 1884, 1886, 1888 and 1890 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the Fifth Judicial District, and in 1892 was elected Judge of the same district, which position he now holds.
MCCALL, GENERAL JOHN M., was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1825. In 1842 he went to Iowa, and in 1850 came to Oregon, settling in Jackson County in 1852, and in Ashland in 1859, where he established wooden mills in 1867 and resided until his death in 1895. He served in the First Oregon Cavalry during the war. In 1883 he was appointed Brigadier-General of the Oregon Militia by Governor Moody. He was an earnest Republican, was for years a delegate to conventions, and at the time of his death was president of the Ashland Republican Club, which his son, John A. McCall, is now secretary.
MCCAMANT, WALLACE, an attorney of Portland, was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1867. He resided at Harrisburg till 1885, when he entered Lafayette College as a sophomore, graduating in 1888 as valedictorian of the class. He remained one year as a member of the faculty. In 1889 he went to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in 1890 was admitted to the bar, coming to Oregon the same year. He settled in Portland, and at once took an active interest in politics. He was one of the founders of the Young Men’s State Republican Club in 1891, not the State League. He was a member of the league meetings of 1892, 1894, 1895, and 1896, and of the county and state conventions of 1892, 1894, and 1896. He is a delegate to the national convention at St. Louis. In 1894 Mr. McCamant was appointed Master in Chancery. He has been on the stump of the state ticket three campaigns.
MCCORMICK, E. L. [Editor inserted: Enos Lincoln McCormick], of Hillsboro, Recorder of Washington County, was born in Polk County Oregon, April 6, 1865, and has resided in Washington County twenty-one years. Until his election as Recorder in 1894 he was a school teacher.
MCCRACKEN, COLONEL JOHN, a merchant of Portland, was born in London, England, July 11, 1826, and came to the United States in 1832. HE lived in New York, East Haddam, Connecticut, and Rhode Island until 1849, when he went to California. He engaged in business in Stockton, and later came to Oregon and purchased flour and saw mills at Oregon city, but met with misfortune in 1852. He was Clerk of Marshal in 1854. During the Indian war of 1855-6 he was commissary general, with the rank of colonel. In 1857 he began a mercantile career in Portland that has continued to the present time. Originally a Democrat, he has been an earnest Republican since the fall of Sumpter. He has been frequently a member of conventions and league meetings, and in 1894, was elected a member of the legislature.
MCCLUNG, HON. J. H. [Editor inserted: John H. McClung], a merchant at Eugene, was born in Seneca County, Ohio, September 10, 1837, and came to Oregon in 1856, settling in Lane County, where he has since resided. He is an actice Republican and member of the Eugene Club. He has been a delegate to several county conventions and two state conventions. He was elected to the lower house of the legislature in 1874 and was nominated for the senate in 1876. In 1894 he was again elected to the legislature. Mr. McClung was a member of the city council twelve years, and in 1891 was elected Mayor.
MCCORNACK, E. P. [Editor inserted: Eugene P. McCornack], of Salem, was born in Kane County, Illinois. HE is one of the leading Republicans of the state, and has been in every county convention for the past twenty years, except 1894, and several state conventions. In 1892 he was secretary of the state central committee. From 1878 to 1887 Mr. McCornack was secretary of the board of land commissioners. He has taken great interest in club work, has attended league meetings and been secretary of the Salem Club.
MCELROY, E. B. [Editor inserted: Ebenezer Burton McElroy], of Eugene, was born in Washington Count, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1842. His common school education was supplemented by a course at the State Normal School. He began his career as a teacher in 1861. In September of that year he enlisted in the First Regiment, West Virginia Volunteers, and served till 1863, when he re-enlisted in the One Hundredth Pennsylvania (Roundheads), and served till the end of the war. He then attended college two years, and subsequently taught school in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In 1873 he came to Oregon and located in Benton County. He taught in the public schools, and in 1875, was elected to a chair in the Agricultural College, remaining till 1882, when he was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was re-elected in 1886 and again in 1890. Upon his retirement from office in 1895, he was offered and accepted a chair in the University of Oregon. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R., and in 1890 was elected Department Commander for Oregon.
MCFERON, JAMES A, of Albany, was born in Kirksville, Missouri, January 26, 1859. He came to Oregon in 1884 and located at Brownsville, engaged in farming. In 1885 he went to Albany and engaged in draying till 1893, when he was elected city marshal. In 1894 he was elected sheriff, and is again the party nominee, and his popularity will help carry the ticket in a county that has always been a democratic stronghold. He was a delegate to the league convention in 1895 and 1896.
MCGINN, HON. HENRY E., of Portland, is a native of Oregon and has been for some years a prominent attorney. He served two terms as District Attorney of the Fourth District, and was elected to the State Senate in 1892. He has been a member of the county and state conventions for years, and is campaign speaker of force. In 1895 he was appointed Circuit Judge of the Fourth District to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Hartwell Hurley.
MCGREGOR, W. F. [Editor inserted: William F. McGregor], president of the Astoria Box Company, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 8, 1859. He came to Oregon in July, 1876, locating in Astoria. He has been a delegate to every county convention for he past fourteen yeas, and to the state conventions of 1890, 1892, and 1894. He has been a member of the city, county, and state central committees, and secretary of the first two. He served as School Director from 1886 to 1892, and was clerk of the board. He has served three years as Councilman, and is now serving his second term of three years, and is President of the Council.
MCKAY, JOSEPH, a merchant of Baker City, was born at Espeyville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1844. He was engaged in tanning, merchandising, and oil speculation till 1880, when, meeting with reverses, he came West. He clerked in a store in Leadville, Colorado, two years, was engaged in business in Idaho a short time, in 1883 located in Huntington, Oregon, and in 1884 at Durkee. He is now in business at Baker City. Mr. McKay has continuously taken a leading part in politics in Baker County, having been a convention delegate frequently. In 1890 he was elected County Clerk, and again in 1892.
MCKERN, A. E. [Editor inserted: Asa E. McKern], of McMinnville, County Clerk of Yamhill County, was born in that county March 24, 1864. He was engaged in merchandising in North Yamhill till 1894, when he was elected County Clerk, and moved to McMinnville. He is an active worker and was a delegate to the county conventions of 1890 and 1892, and the club conventions of 1895 and 1896. Mr. McKern has been renominated by the Republican convention.
MCMANUS, JOHN P., editor and manager of the Pendleton Tribune, the leading Republican paper of Eastern Oregon, was born in Freeport, Illinois, June 19, 1858, and next year was taken to Minnesota, and in 1869 to Iowa. He early learned the printer’s trade and at the age of fifteen held a case on the Chicago Times, the youngest compositor ever on the paper. In 1876 he went to California, and worked on the Colusa Sun. In 1880 he founded the Willows Journal. In 1881 he went to San Francisco, and worked on the Call till 1883, then went to Portland and was on the Oregonian till 1885. He then became editor and manager of the Republican, at Rapid City, Dakota. In 1889 he sold out and returned to the coast, and, January 1, 1894, took charge of the Pendleton Tribune. The paper was then $5250 in debt, and without credit. In two years it has gained a high position in the press of Oregon. It is a forceful advocate of republican principles, and earnestly opposes the free coinage of silver, though not disposed to make that the leading issue of the campaign. Mr. McManus has been prominent in labor union circles, has been a constant member of the Typographical Union, and was a delegate to the Labor Congress, at Olympia, in 1892.
MELDRUM, HENRY, of Oregon City, was born in Pacific County, Washington, November 5, 1852, and moved to Oregon in 1856. He was employed for twenty years on government surveys in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and has lived continuously in Clackamas County, except for short periods in Lake and Tillamook counties. He has been Deputy United States Surveyor since 1873, and in 1893 was appointed Deputy United States Mineral Surveyor for four years. Mr. Meldrum has been a member of all country conventions since 1882, if two state connections, of State League meetings in 1892 and 1895, and chairman of the county central committee in 1894-96. He was elected County Surveyor in 1884 and declined renomination. He is now the Republican nominee for County Clerk.
MELDRUM, JOHN W., of Oregon City, was born near Burlington, Iowa, December 17, 1839, and came to Oregon in 1845. For many years he has been a member of county and state conventions and committees. For a time he was Deputy United States Surveyor. Mr. Meldrum is this year a delegate to the national convention.
MERRITT, HON. J. W. [Editor inserted: John W. Merritt], of Central Point, was born in Syracuse, New York, and came to Oregon in 1875, and for ten years was principal of the Jacksonville school. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits, locating at Central Point in 1999. He is prominent in many private and public enterprises. He was elected to the legislature in 1890 and 1892.
MERRIMAN, GEORGE F., of Medford, was born in Douglas County, Oregon, September 16, 1855. He is a blacksmith by occupation, having pursued it for twelve years in Medford. He was a member of the Douglas County convention in 1880 and 1882, and the Jackson County convention in 1886, 1890 and 1894, and of the state convention in 1894. In 1892 he received the nomination for Sheriff. In 1884 he was secretary of the McKinley Club, and a member and secretary of the county central committee.
MERRILL, HON. NORMAN, of Clatskanie, was born in Columbia County, Oregon, December 25, 1851, and has always been engaged in lumbering and logging, as well as fruit growing, farming and stock raising. In 1879 he was elected County Treasurer. In 1892 he was elected to the legislature, and is now again the Republican nominee to that body.
MENEFEE, HON. FRANK, of The Dalles, was born in that city January 31, 1866. He is one of the leading young Republicans of the state. He was a delegate to the last three conventions, and the State League. In 1891 he was elected City Recorder, and again in 1892. In March, 1895, he was appointed Mayor by the council to fill a vacancy and I n the following June was elected to the same honorable office by the people.
METSCHAN, PHIL., of Canyon City, but for the last six years a resident of Salem as State Treasurer, was born in Germany in 1840, and came to America in 1854, residing in Cincinnati until 1859. HE then spent several years in Kansas, Colorado, and California, coming to Oregon in 1862. He began business as a butcher, but soon embarked in merchandising in Grant County, retiring from business in 1888. He took a leading part in Republican politics in that section of the state. From 1868 to 1872 he was Treasurer of Grant County, from 1876 to 1878, County Clerk, and again from 1888 to 1890. From 1882 to 1886 he was a County Judge. In 1890 he was elected State Treasurer, and was renominated in 1894 without opposition, and elected by a big majority. He is a man of forceful character and genial disposition, and is deservedly popular with all classes.
MICHELL, WILLIAM, of The Dalles, was born in Penzanee, County Cornwall, England, in 1838. He was a delegate to the Wasco convention in 1890 and 1892. In 1892 he was elected County Treasurer, and again in 1894.
MILLER, DR. BYRON E., a leading physician of Portland, and vice-president of the Multorpor Republican Club, was born near Dundee, New York, March 17, 1855. At the Age of twenty-one he entered a mercantile house in Cleveland, Ohio, as clerk. In 1880 he began the study of medicine, at Ovid, New York, and graduated from Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College in 1883. He practiced medicine in 1882, by special license, having been selected from a class of 200 students. He settled in Doylestown, Ohio, and was elected a member of the N. E. Ohio Medical Society, and the Schuyer County (New York) Homeopathic Society. In 1884 he came to Portland, and has taken rank among the leading physicians and surgeons of the city. In 1886 he was elected a member of the Oregon State Homeopathic Society, and the Multnomah County Homeopathic Society. In 1886 he was elected corresponding secretary and was appointed chairman of the Bureau of Diseases of Women by the State Medical Society. He was subsequently elected president of the Board of Censors. In May, 1888, he became treasurer. In 1889 he traveled through Mexico and the East, and took a special course in surgery and physical diagnosis in the Polyclinic Post-Graduate School of Medicine, in New York. In 1889 he was elected first vice-president and a member of the Board of Censors of the Oregon State Homeopathic Medical Society, and in May 1890, was chosen chief of the Department of Gynaecology on the medical staff of the Portland Hospital. He was re-elected vice-president of the State Society in 1890, and the same year went to New York and took a course in orthopedic surgery and surgical diseases of women at the Post-Graduate School. In 1890 he was elected vice-president of the National Homeopathic Hospital Association, of Washington D.C. In 1891 he was elected president of the Oregon State Homeopathic Medical Society. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Masons, Odd Fellows, Portland Chamber of Commerce, and the Multorpor Republican Club, of which he is vice-president. Dr. Miller is one of the staff physicians of the Portland Hospital, now a homeopathic institution, and is a member and secretary of the State Board of Medical Examiners.
MILLER C. W. [Editor inserted: Charles W. Miller], of the law firm of Miller & Miller, Portland, was born in Adams County, Illinois, October 10, 1859. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan, and also took a three years’ course at the Willamette University. Since 1887 he has practiced his profession in Portland. In 1894 he was elected School Director of Portland by a large majority. He is an active and earnest Republican, a member of the Multorpor Club, and a bard campaign worker.
MILLER, H. B., of Grant’s Pass, was born in Shelby County, Ohio, April 11, 1854. In 1873 he came to Oregon to build a bridge across the Clackamas river. In 1873 he came to Oregon to build a bridge across the Clackamas river. He also built bridges across the Willamette, at Springfield, and across the McKenzie. E was engaged in this kind of work in Lane and Linn counties several years, and in 1878 went to Portland, where he lived five years, being in the custom house two years. From 1881 to 1884 he was engaged in railroad construction between Ashland and Roseburg. He then settled at Grant’s Pass in manufacturing business. He has been frequently a member of county and state conventions, league meetings and county and state conventions, league meetings and county and state central committees; was a candidate for Republican Presidential Elector in 1892, a member of the state senate 1884-88, and of the house in 1890-92.
MILLER, DR. K. L. [Editor inserted: Kilan L. Miller], of Roseburg, was born in Albany, New York, March 21, 1854 and came to Oregon in 1870. He lived in Portland six years and has since been a resident of Roseburg, where he is practicing medicine, and is also physician for the Soldiers’ Home. He was elected Coroner and made County Physician in 1894, and is again the party nominee for Coroner.
MILLER, R. H. [Editor inserted: Robert H. Miller] editor of the Woodburn Independent, was born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, April 15, 1842. Enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Ohio Infantry in 1861, and was discharged in 1862 by reason of being disabled by wounds. He has done local newspaper work in Chicago, Sioux City, Cedar Rapids, and Des Moines. He founded the Sioux Falls Pantagraph, Brimfield (Illinois) Gazette, and Elmwood (Illinois) Gazette, and editor and publisher of the Sioux Valley News, Broken Bow (Nebraska) Daily and Weekly Republican, and Daily and Weekly Leader. He came to Oregon in 1889, and in 1895 bought the Woodburn Independent.
MILLER, WILLIAM, of Oswego, was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 17, 1845. Twelve years later he moved to Kansas. He learned the blacksmith trade, and in 1890 came to Oregon, and has since lived in Oswego, occupied as blacksmith and engineer. He is an earnest Republican and has been a delegate to the Clackamas County convention and the State League.
MINTIE, HON. F. L., a lumber dealer of Oswego, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, May 27, 1839. He is a graduate of the Waterbury, Connecticut, High School, and Eastman’s Business College, of Chicago. He served through the war, first as a private in a company commanded by Senator Hawley, then as fist lieutenant in the One Hundred and Second New York, and in the Twenty-fourth United States, colored. He was first and second Bull Run, Cedar Mountain, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, and Dallas. He was mustered out in 1865, and lived three years in Darlington, Wisconsin. He then located near Sedalia, Missouri, and served as Journal Clerk, and then as Enrolling Clerk in the legislature. He then moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he was president of the Republican Club and chairman of two conventions. In 1891 he came to Oregon. He is president of the Oswego Republican Club, and has been continuously a delegate to conventions. In 1894 he was elected to the legislature.
MINTO, JOHN, of Salem, was born in Wycombe, Near New-castle-on-Tyne, England, October 19, 1822, and came to the United States in 1840. In 1844 he crossed the plains to Oregon, locating in Marion County, where he was conducted successfully a large farming and sheep-raising industry ever since. He was been prominent in the management of the Oregon State Agricultural Society. He discovered Minto Pass, the route across the Cascades being followed by the Oregon Pacific. He began taking a deep interest in public matters at the outbreak of the war, and has since been an active Republican worker. He was elected to the legislature in 1862, in 1868 and in 1880.
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, pages 241-247.
McBride, George W., of St. Helens, now United States Senator from Oregon, is a son of Dr. James McBride, one of the pioneers of Oregon, is a son of Dr. James McBride, one of the pioneers of Oregon, and one of the founders of the Republican party in the state. He was born in Yamhill County in 1854, and was educated at the Willamette University, at Salem, and the Christian College, at Monmouth. In 1867 the family located near St.Helens, where he has made his home ever since. His antecedents made his strong Republicanism a certainty. In 1882 he was elected to the legislature, and was made speaker of the house. In 1886 he was elected Secretary of the State, though both the Republican candidates for Governor and Treasurer were defeated. He was renominated by acclamation in 1890, and again elected. In but a little more than a month after his retirement from office he was elected United States Senator, to succeed Senator Dolph, after a deadlock that lasted until within a few minutes of the close of the session. He has battled manfully with ill health all his life, and has succeeded against obstacles a man of less strength of character would have found unsurmountable.
McBride, Dr. James, deceased, father of John R., Thomas A., and George W., all so prominently identified with the Republican party in Oregon, was born in Tennessee, in 1801, and came to Oregon in 1845. He lived In Yamhill County till 1870, when he went to St. Helens, where he died December 18, 1875. Dr. McBride was one of the founders of the party in Oregon, and was a United States Minister to Hawaii from 1863 to 1866.
MCBRIDE, HON. JOHN R., an attorney of Spokane Falls, Washington, and brother of George W. and Thomas A., came to Oregon with his parents in1845. HE was secretary of the first meeting in Yamhill County, in 1856, to organize the Republican party in Oregon, and in 1858 was the first republican nominee for congress. He was elected to the constitutional convention in 1857, the only person in that body elected as a strait Republican. In 1862 he was again nominated for congress and elected. He was a member of the state conventions of 1857, 1858, and 1859.
MCBRIDE, HON. THOMAS A., was born in Yamhill County, Oregon, in 1847. He was educated at McMinnville College, and was admitted to the bar in 1870. He has lived in St. Helens since 1870. HE has frequently been a member of county and state conventions and central committees. He has served Columbia County in the legislature. In 1884, 1886, 1888 and 1890 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the Fifth Judicial District, and in 1892 was elected Judge of the same district, which position he now holds.
MCCALL, GENERAL JOHN M., was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1825. In 1842 he went to Iowa, and in 1850 came to Oregon, settling in Jackson County in 1852, and in Ashland in 1859, where he established wooden mills in 1867 and resided until his death in 1895. He served in the First Oregon Cavalry during the war. In 1883 he was appointed Brigadier-General of the Oregon Militia by Governor Moody. He was an earnest Republican, was for years a delegate to conventions, and at the time of his death was president of the Ashland Republican Club, which his son, John A. McCall, is now secretary.
MCCAMANT, WALLACE, an attorney of Portland, was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1867. He resided at Harrisburg till 1885, when he entered Lafayette College as a sophomore, graduating in 1888 as valedictorian of the class. He remained one year as a member of the faculty. In 1889 he went to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in 1890 was admitted to the bar, coming to Oregon the same year. He settled in Portland, and at once took an active interest in politics. He was one of the founders of the Young Men’s State Republican Club in 1891, not the State League. He was a member of the league meetings of 1892, 1894, 1895, and 1896, and of the county and state conventions of 1892, 1894, and 1896. He is a delegate to the national convention at St. Louis. In 1894 Mr. McCamant was appointed Master in Chancery. He has been on the stump of the state ticket three campaigns.
MCCORMICK, E. L. [Editor inserted: Enos Lincoln McCormick], of Hillsboro, Recorder of Washington County, was born in Polk County Oregon, April 6, 1865, and has resided in Washington County twenty-one years. Until his election as Recorder in 1894 he was a school teacher.
MCCRACKEN, COLONEL JOHN, a merchant of Portland, was born in London, England, July 11, 1826, and came to the United States in 1832. HE lived in New York, East Haddam, Connecticut, and Rhode Island until 1849, when he went to California. He engaged in business in Stockton, and later came to Oregon and purchased flour and saw mills at Oregon city, but met with misfortune in 1852. He was Clerk of Marshal in 1854. During the Indian war of 1855-6 he was commissary general, with the rank of colonel. In 1857 he began a mercantile career in Portland that has continued to the present time. Originally a Democrat, he has been an earnest Republican since the fall of Sumpter. He has been frequently a member of conventions and league meetings, and in 1894, was elected a member of the legislature.
MCCLUNG, HON. J. H. [Editor inserted: John H. McClung], a merchant at Eugene, was born in Seneca County, Ohio, September 10, 1837, and came to Oregon in 1856, settling in Lane County, where he has since resided. He is an actice Republican and member of the Eugene Club. He has been a delegate to several county conventions and two state conventions. He was elected to the lower house of the legislature in 1874 and was nominated for the senate in 1876. In 1894 he was again elected to the legislature. Mr. McClung was a member of the city council twelve years, and in 1891 was elected Mayor.
MCCORNACK, E. P. [Editor inserted: Eugene P. McCornack], of Salem, was born in Kane County, Illinois. HE is one of the leading Republicans of the state, and has been in every county convention for the past twenty years, except 1894, and several state conventions. In 1892 he was secretary of the state central committee. From 1878 to 1887 Mr. McCornack was secretary of the board of land commissioners. He has taken great interest in club work, has attended league meetings and been secretary of the Salem Club.
MCELROY, E. B. [Editor inserted: Ebenezer Burton McElroy], of Eugene, was born in Washington Count, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1842. His common school education was supplemented by a course at the State Normal School. He began his career as a teacher in 1861. In September of that year he enlisted in the First Regiment, West Virginia Volunteers, and served till 1863, when he re-enlisted in the One Hundredth Pennsylvania (Roundheads), and served till the end of the war. He then attended college two years, and subsequently taught school in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In 1873 he came to Oregon and located in Benton County. He taught in the public schools, and in 1875, was elected to a chair in the Agricultural College, remaining till 1882, when he was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was re-elected in 1886 and again in 1890. Upon his retirement from office in 1895, he was offered and accepted a chair in the University of Oregon. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R., and in 1890 was elected Department Commander for Oregon.
MCFERON, JAMES A, of Albany, was born in Kirksville, Missouri, January 26, 1859. He came to Oregon in 1884 and located at Brownsville, engaged in farming. In 1885 he went to Albany and engaged in draying till 1893, when he was elected city marshal. In 1894 he was elected sheriff, and is again the party nominee, and his popularity will help carry the ticket in a county that has always been a democratic stronghold. He was a delegate to the league convention in 1895 and 1896.
MCGINN, HON. HENRY E., of Portland, is a native of Oregon and has been for some years a prominent attorney. He served two terms as District Attorney of the Fourth District, and was elected to the State Senate in 1892. He has been a member of the county and state conventions for years, and is campaign speaker of force. In 1895 he was appointed Circuit Judge of the Fourth District to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Hartwell Hurley.
MCGREGOR, W. F. [Editor inserted: William F. McGregor], president of the Astoria Box Company, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 8, 1859. He came to Oregon in July, 1876, locating in Astoria. He has been a delegate to every county convention for he past fourteen yeas, and to the state conventions of 1890, 1892, and 1894. He has been a member of the city, county, and state central committees, and secretary of the first two. He served as School Director from 1886 to 1892, and was clerk of the board. He has served three years as Councilman, and is now serving his second term of three years, and is President of the Council.
MCKAY, JOSEPH, a merchant of Baker City, was born at Espeyville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1844. He was engaged in tanning, merchandising, and oil speculation till 1880, when, meeting with reverses, he came West. He clerked in a store in Leadville, Colorado, two years, was engaged in business in Idaho a short time, in 1883 located in Huntington, Oregon, and in 1884 at Durkee. He is now in business at Baker City. Mr. McKay has continuously taken a leading part in politics in Baker County, having been a convention delegate frequently. In 1890 he was elected County Clerk, and again in 1892.
MCKERN, A. E. [Editor inserted: Asa E. McKern], of McMinnville, County Clerk of Yamhill County, was born in that county March 24, 1864. He was engaged in merchandising in North Yamhill till 1894, when he was elected County Clerk, and moved to McMinnville. He is an active worker and was a delegate to the county conventions of 1890 and 1892, and the club conventions of 1895 and 1896. Mr. McKern has been renominated by the Republican convention.
MCMANUS, JOHN P., editor and manager of the Pendleton Tribune, the leading Republican paper of Eastern Oregon, was born in Freeport, Illinois, June 19, 1858, and next year was taken to Minnesota, and in 1869 to Iowa. He early learned the printer’s trade and at the age of fifteen held a case on the Chicago Times, the youngest compositor ever on the paper. In 1876 he went to California, and worked on the Colusa Sun. In 1880 he founded the Willows Journal. In 1881 he went to San Francisco, and worked on the Call till 1883, then went to Portland and was on the Oregonian till 1885. He then became editor and manager of the Republican, at Rapid City, Dakota. In 1889 he sold out and returned to the coast, and, January 1, 1894, took charge of the Pendleton Tribune. The paper was then $5250 in debt, and without credit. In two years it has gained a high position in the press of Oregon. It is a forceful advocate of republican principles, and earnestly opposes the free coinage of silver, though not disposed to make that the leading issue of the campaign. Mr. McManus has been prominent in labor union circles, has been a constant member of the Typographical Union, and was a delegate to the Labor Congress, at Olympia, in 1892.
MELDRUM, HENRY, of Oregon City, was born in Pacific County, Washington, November 5, 1852, and moved to Oregon in 1856. He was employed for twenty years on government surveys in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and has lived continuously in Clackamas County, except for short periods in Lake and Tillamook counties. He has been Deputy United States Surveyor since 1873, and in 1893 was appointed Deputy United States Mineral Surveyor for four years. Mr. Meldrum has been a member of all country conventions since 1882, if two state connections, of State League meetings in 1892 and 1895, and chairman of the county central committee in 1894-96. He was elected County Surveyor in 1884 and declined renomination. He is now the Republican nominee for County Clerk.
MELDRUM, JOHN W., of Oregon City, was born near Burlington, Iowa, December 17, 1839, and came to Oregon in 1845. For many years he has been a member of county and state conventions and committees. For a time he was Deputy United States Surveyor. Mr. Meldrum is this year a delegate to the national convention.
MERRITT, HON. J. W. [Editor inserted: John W. Merritt], of Central Point, was born in Syracuse, New York, and came to Oregon in 1875, and for ten years was principal of the Jacksonville school. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits, locating at Central Point in 1999. He is prominent in many private and public enterprises. He was elected to the legislature in 1890 and 1892.
MERRIMAN, GEORGE F., of Medford, was born in Douglas County, Oregon, September 16, 1855. He is a blacksmith by occupation, having pursued it for twelve years in Medford. He was a member of the Douglas County convention in 1880 and 1882, and the Jackson County convention in 1886, 1890 and 1894, and of the state convention in 1894. In 1892 he received the nomination for Sheriff. In 1884 he was secretary of the McKinley Club, and a member and secretary of the county central committee.
MERRILL, HON. NORMAN, of Clatskanie, was born in Columbia County, Oregon, December 25, 1851, and has always been engaged in lumbering and logging, as well as fruit growing, farming and stock raising. In 1879 he was elected County Treasurer. In 1892 he was elected to the legislature, and is now again the Republican nominee to that body.
MENEFEE, HON. FRANK, of The Dalles, was born in that city January 31, 1866. He is one of the leading young Republicans of the state. He was a delegate to the last three conventions, and the State League. In 1891 he was elected City Recorder, and again in 1892. In March, 1895, he was appointed Mayor by the council to fill a vacancy and I n the following June was elected to the same honorable office by the people.
METSCHAN, PHIL., of Canyon City, but for the last six years a resident of Salem as State Treasurer, was born in Germany in 1840, and came to America in 1854, residing in Cincinnati until 1859. HE then spent several years in Kansas, Colorado, and California, coming to Oregon in 1862. He began business as a butcher, but soon embarked in merchandising in Grant County, retiring from business in 1888. He took a leading part in Republican politics in that section of the state. From 1868 to 1872 he was Treasurer of Grant County, from 1876 to 1878, County Clerk, and again from 1888 to 1890. From 1882 to 1886 he was a County Judge. In 1890 he was elected State Treasurer, and was renominated in 1894 without opposition, and elected by a big majority. He is a man of forceful character and genial disposition, and is deservedly popular with all classes.
MICHELL, WILLIAM, of The Dalles, was born in Penzanee, County Cornwall, England, in 1838. He was a delegate to the Wasco convention in 1890 and 1892. In 1892 he was elected County Treasurer, and again in 1894.
MILLER, DR. BYRON E., a leading physician of Portland, and vice-president of the Multorpor Republican Club, was born near Dundee, New York, March 17, 1855. At the Age of twenty-one he entered a mercantile house in Cleveland, Ohio, as clerk. In 1880 he began the study of medicine, at Ovid, New York, and graduated from Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College in 1883. He practiced medicine in 1882, by special license, having been selected from a class of 200 students. He settled in Doylestown, Ohio, and was elected a member of the N. E. Ohio Medical Society, and the Schuyer County (New York) Homeopathic Society. In 1884 he came to Portland, and has taken rank among the leading physicians and surgeons of the city. In 1886 he was elected a member of the Oregon State Homeopathic Society, and the Multnomah County Homeopathic Society. In 1886 he was elected corresponding secretary and was appointed chairman of the Bureau of Diseases of Women by the State Medical Society. He was subsequently elected president of the Board of Censors. In May, 1888, he became treasurer. In 1889 he traveled through Mexico and the East, and took a special course in surgery and physical diagnosis in the Polyclinic Post-Graduate School of Medicine, in New York. In 1889 he was elected first vice-president and a member of the Board of Censors of the Oregon State Homeopathic Medical Society, and in May 1890, was chosen chief of the Department of Gynaecology on the medical staff of the Portland Hospital. He was re-elected vice-president of the State Society in 1890, and the same year went to New York and took a course in orthopedic surgery and surgical diseases of women at the Post-Graduate School. In 1890 he was elected vice-president of the National Homeopathic Hospital Association, of Washington D.C. In 1891 he was elected president of the Oregon State Homeopathic Medical Society. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Masons, Odd Fellows, Portland Chamber of Commerce, and the Multorpor Republican Club, of which he is vice-president. Dr. Miller is one of the staff physicians of the Portland Hospital, now a homeopathic institution, and is a member and secretary of the State Board of Medical Examiners.
MILLER C. W. [Editor inserted: Charles W. Miller], of the law firm of Miller & Miller, Portland, was born in Adams County, Illinois, October 10, 1859. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan, and also took a three years’ course at the Willamette University. Since 1887 he has practiced his profession in Portland. In 1894 he was elected School Director of Portland by a large majority. He is an active and earnest Republican, a member of the Multorpor Club, and a bard campaign worker.
MILLER, H. B., of Grant’s Pass, was born in Shelby County, Ohio, April 11, 1854. In 1873 he came to Oregon to build a bridge across the Clackamas river. In 1873 he came to Oregon to build a bridge across the Clackamas river. He also built bridges across the Willamette, at Springfield, and across the McKenzie. E was engaged in this kind of work in Lane and Linn counties several years, and in 1878 went to Portland, where he lived five years, being in the custom house two years. From 1881 to 1884 he was engaged in railroad construction between Ashland and Roseburg. He then settled at Grant’s Pass in manufacturing business. He has been frequently a member of county and state conventions, league meetings and county and state conventions, league meetings and county and state central committees; was a candidate for Republican Presidential Elector in 1892, a member of the state senate 1884-88, and of the house in 1890-92.
MILLER, DR. K. L. [Editor inserted: Kilan L. Miller], of Roseburg, was born in Albany, New York, March 21, 1854 and came to Oregon in 1870. He lived in Portland six years and has since been a resident of Roseburg, where he is practicing medicine, and is also physician for the Soldiers’ Home. He was elected Coroner and made County Physician in 1894, and is again the party nominee for Coroner.
MILLER, R. H. [Editor inserted: Robert H. Miller] editor of the Woodburn Independent, was born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, April 15, 1842. Enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Ohio Infantry in 1861, and was discharged in 1862 by reason of being disabled by wounds. He has done local newspaper work in Chicago, Sioux City, Cedar Rapids, and Des Moines. He founded the Sioux Falls Pantagraph, Brimfield (Illinois) Gazette, and Elmwood (Illinois) Gazette, and editor and publisher of the Sioux Valley News, Broken Bow (Nebraska) Daily and Weekly Republican, and Daily and Weekly Leader. He came to Oregon in 1889, and in 1895 bought the Woodburn Independent.
MILLER, WILLIAM, of Oswego, was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 17, 1845. Twelve years later he moved to Kansas. He learned the blacksmith trade, and in 1890 came to Oregon, and has since lived in Oswego, occupied as blacksmith and engineer. He is an earnest Republican and has been a delegate to the Clackamas County convention and the State League.
MINTIE, HON. F. L., a lumber dealer of Oswego, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, May 27, 1839. He is a graduate of the Waterbury, Connecticut, High School, and Eastman’s Business College, of Chicago. He served through the war, first as a private in a company commanded by Senator Hawley, then as fist lieutenant in the One Hundred and Second New York, and in the Twenty-fourth United States, colored. He was first and second Bull Run, Cedar Mountain, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, and Dallas. He was mustered out in 1865, and lived three years in Darlington, Wisconsin. He then located near Sedalia, Missouri, and served as Journal Clerk, and then as Enrolling Clerk in the legislature. He then moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he was president of the Republican Club and chairman of two conventions. In 1891 he came to Oregon. He is president of the Oswego Republican Club, and has been continuously a delegate to conventions. In 1894 he was elected to the legislature.
MINTO, JOHN, of Salem, was born in Wycombe, Near New-castle-on-Tyne, England, October 19, 1822, and came to the United States in 1840. In 1844 he crossed the plains to Oregon, locating in Marion County, where he was conducted successfully a large farming and sheep-raising industry ever since. He was been prominent in the management of the Oregon State Agricultural Society. He discovered Minto Pass, the route across the Cascades being followed by the Oregon Pacific. He began taking a deep interest in public matters at the outbreak of the war, and has since been an active Republican worker. He was elected to the legislature in 1862, in 1868 and in 1880.
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REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 1ST DISTRICT
Derrick Kitts (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 1946
HILLSBORO, OR 97123
(503)312-8146(H), (503)640-4089(W)
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: derrick@derrickkitts.com
Web-Site: http://www.derrickkitts.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 2ND DISTRICT
Greg Walden (REPUBLICAN)
1504 SHERMAN AVE
HOOD RIVER, OR 97031
(541)386-2867(H), (202)225-6730(W)
Fax: (541)387-5378
E-Mail: greg@waldenforcongress.com
Web-Site: http://www.waldenforcongress.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 4TH DISTRICT
Jim Feldkamp (REPUBLICAN)
4257 BARGER DR #353
EUGENE, OR 97402
(541)342-5478(H), (541)607-6614(W)
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)
Fax: (503)635-1043
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
GOVERNOR
Ron Saxton (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 163
PORTLAND, OR 97207
(503)235-7091(H), (503)224-2006(W)
Fax: (503)226-0079
E-Mail: info@votesaxton.com
Web-Site: http://www.votesaxton.com
STATE SENATOR, 3RD DISTRICT
Lynn Aiello (REPUBLICAN)
4732 CLOUDCREST DR.
MEDFORD, OR 97504
(541)245-9336(H)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Fax: (541)928-0525
E-Mail: flmorse@comcast.net
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)
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)
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)
Fax: (503)538-6001
E-Mail: larrygeorge@teleport.com
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Fax: (503)829-8862
E-Mail: mac@molalla.net
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Fax: (503)356-8961
E-Mail: eldon@eldondervilleteer.com
Web-Site: http://www.eldondervilleteer.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 29TH DISTRICT
Terry Rilling (REPUBLICAN)
290 N 11TH AVE
CORNELIUS, OR 97113
(503)793-3500(H)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: derrick@derrickkitts.com
Web-Site: http://www.derrickkitts.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 2ND DISTRICT
Greg Walden (REPUBLICAN)
1504 SHERMAN AVE
HOOD RIVER, OR 97031
(541)386-2867(H), (202)225-6730(W)
Fax: (541)387-5378
E-Mail: greg@waldenforcongress.com
Web-Site: http://www.waldenforcongress.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 4TH DISTRICT
Jim Feldkamp (REPUBLICAN)
4257 BARGER DR #353
EUGENE, OR 97402
(541)342-5478(H), (541)607-6614(W)
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)
Fax: (503)635-1043
E-Mail: No E-Mail address specified.
Web-Site: No Web-Site address specified.
GOVERNOR
Ron Saxton (REPUBLICAN)
PO BOX 163
PORTLAND, OR 97207
(503)235-7091(H), (503)224-2006(W)
Fax: (503)226-0079
E-Mail: info@votesaxton.com
Web-Site: http://www.votesaxton.com
STATE SENATOR, 3RD DISTRICT
Lynn Aiello (REPUBLICAN)
4732 CLOUDCREST DR.
MEDFORD, OR 97504
(541)245-9336(H)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Fax: (541)928-0525
E-Mail: flmorse@comcast.net
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)
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)
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)
Fax: (503)538-6001
E-Mail: larrygeorge@teleport.com
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Fax: (503)829-8862
E-Mail: mac@molalla.net
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Fax: (503)356-8961
E-Mail: eldon@eldondervilleteer.com
Web-Site: http://www.eldondervilleteer.com
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, 29TH DISTRICT
Terry Rilling (REPUBLICAN)
290 N 11TH AVE
CORNELIUS, OR 97113
(503)793-3500(H)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Fax: No fax number specified.
E-Mail: cpatom@fmtc.com
Web-Site: http://www.ButlerT.com
Friday, June 16, 2006
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Jefferson County
Heisler, Jefferson County, Oregon. Prineville Stage. 1902. Image from the Oregon Republican League collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Wheeler County
Fossil, Wheeler County, Oregon. Fossil City Jail. 1892. Image in the Oregon Republican League collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Union County
North Powder, Union County, Oregon. Young Hotel. 1909. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Yamhill County
Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon. Royal Hotel. 1912. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Lincoln County
Yachats, Lincoln County, Oregon. The Paddock Motel. 1930. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Marion County
Woodburn, Marion County, Oregon. 1916. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Marion County
Woodburn Marion County, Oregon. 1914. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Yamhill County
Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon. 1914. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Lane County
Wendling, Lane County, Oregon. Lumber Kiln. 1930. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Curry County
Wedderburn, Curry County, Oregon. 1922. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Sherman County
Wasco, Sherman County, Oregon. 1907. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Union County
La Grande, Union County, Oregon. Wallowa River. 1910. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Wallowa County
Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon. Hotel McCrae. 1908. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Wallowa County
Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon. 1909. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Malheur County
Vale, Malheur County, Oregon. Vale Freight Wagon Train. 1922. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Marion County
Turner, Marion County, Oregon. Turner Memorial Tabernacle. 1907. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Lake County
Lakeview, Lake County, Oregon. Transfer Wagon. 1912. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Lincoln County
Toledo, Lincoln County, Oregon. 1922. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Washington County
Timber, Washington County, Oregon. 1913. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Tillamook County
Tillamook, Tillamook County, Oregon. 15 tons of mail, Portland to Tillamook, on the "Henrietta". 1913. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Tillamook County
Tillamook Bay Moonlight, Tillamook County, Oregon. 1922. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Tillamook County
Tillamook, Tillamook County, Oregon. 1918. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Tillamook County
Tillamook, Tillamook County, Oregon. 1910. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Tillamook County
Tillamook, Tillamook County, Oregon. 1908. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Tillamook County
Tillamook, Tillamook County, Oregon. 1906. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Wednesday, June 14, 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, pages 235-240.
LEWIS, ANDREW T., of Portland, was born in Johnson County, Indiana, November 10, 1848. Eight years later he removed with his father’s family to Champaign County, Illinois. He was educated in the public schools and attended the normal of that state, graduating in 1871, and became a teacher. He taught school in Texas for a time, and then returned to Illinois and commenced the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1873. He still pursued the study of law, taking a course at the University of Michigan and graduating in 1875. He was then elected City Attorney of Urbana, Illinois, and continued the practice there till 1879, when he went to Dakota, where he again took to the work of teaching. Later he returned to his home and continues the practice of law, until appointed Clerk of the District Court of the District of Alaska, and ex-officio secretary and treasurer of said district, by President Arthur, in 1884, where he remained until 1887, when he went to Los Angeles County, California. He came to Portland in 1888, when he immediately commenced the practice of law, and is today one of the city’s well-known attorneys. Mr. Lewis has always been an earnest, active Republican, and the party always knows just where he stands.
LOCKWOOD, C. M., Chief Clerk of the Secretary of State, was born at The Dalles, Oregon, June 26, 1870, and has lived at or near Salem since 1876. For thirteen years he was manager of the Postal Telegraph office at Salem, and is now owner of the Lockwood messenger system and interested in the bicycle trade.
LOGAN, HON. DAVID, deceased, was one of the founders and leaders of the Republican party in Oregon. He was a son of Judge Logan, partner and intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln. Coming to Oregon in early territorial days, he soon took high rank at the bar and as an orator. In 1859 he ran for congress on the Republican ticket, and was defeated, but in 1860 he again ran, and was, the first Republican to represent the state of Oregon in congress. He was again the Republican candidate in 1868.
LOONEY, D. H., of Jefferson, was born in Marion County, Oregon, December 9, 1850, and has always lived there. He is by occupation a farmer and stockman, and has been president of the Sate Board of Agriculture. Mr. Looney has taken a prominent part in politics, having been a delegate to county conventions since 1872, to state conventions, and a member of the state central committee.
LORD, CHARLES F., of Portland, nominated for District Attorney of the Fourth District, was born at Alfred, York County, Maine, September 3, 1866, completing his education at Bowdoin College, class of 188. For the past six years he has had a prominent place at the bar in Portland, and was a member of the city and county conventions in 1894 and 1896. He has done much work on the stump, and is a fluent speaker.
LORD, HON. WILLIAM P., Governor of Oregon, was born in Dover, Delaware, in 1838. He graduated from Fairfield College, New York, and read law. He was among the first to volunteer when the war broke out, enlisting in a battalion of Delaware cavalry, and served through the war with the rank of major. He then graduated from the Albany Law College, and accepted a commission as lieutenant in the regular army. He was stationed in the Welt and finally Alaska. Later he resigned and began the practice of his profession in Sale, Oregon. In 1878 the Republicans of Marion County elected him to the State Senate, and in 1880 he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Couth, and became Chief Justice. He was re-elected in 1882 and in 1888, and in 1895 was inaugurated Governor of the state, to which office he was elected before his term as judge fully expired. Under him Oregon began to enjoy the first Republican administration of his office justifies the confidence that was placed in him by the people.
LOTAN, JAMES, of Portland, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1843. He early received a practical education as a machinist, but dropped his trade to enlist in the army, serving through an enlistment of two years. He then worked in the Washington navy yard. In 1864 he came to the Pacific Coast, and settled in Portland in 1865. In 1872 he became Superintendent of the Willamette Iron Works, of which he subsequently became half owner. Mr. Lotan has been a leader of in the Republican party, both local and state, for years. He has frequently been chairman of the city, county and state central committees and a member of nearly every convention for many years. In 1870 he was appointed United States Inspector of Vessels at this port. In 1889 he was appointed Collector of Customs by President Harrison. In 1883 he was appointed Fire Commissioner of Portland, and held that position for nine years.
LOVELL, FRANK K., auditing clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, is a native Oregonian and an earnest Republican. He occupied the same position under Secretary McBride, and by his promptness, accuracy, faithfulness and courtesy, has won the good will of the hundreds all over the states who have come in official contact with him. Such officials for much to make even political opponents feel resigned to the fact that Republicans are in power.
LOVE, GEORGE M., a merchant of Jacksonville, was born at that place December 29, 1860, and has always lived there. He is a working Republican and was a delegate to all the county conventions from 1884 to 1892, and the state conventions of 1890, 1892 and 1894. In 1888 he was nominated assessor. He was appointed Postmaster by President Harrison, and served till July 1, 1894.
LOWELL, HON. STEPHEN A., of Pendleton, was born at Minot, Maine, in 1859. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, and in 1891 located in Pendleton. He was a delegate to the league convention in 1892 and the state convention in 1894. He was Supreme Court Clerk for the Eastern District in 1893 and 1894 and City Attorney in 1894. In 1895 he was appointed Judge of the Sixth Judicial District by Governor Lord. And is now the party nominee.
LOWNSDALE, J. P. O., of Portland, son of Daniel Lownsdale, one of the first settlers of Portland, in 1845, was born in Princeton, Indiana, January 1, 1830. He came to Oregon in 1851. In 1853 he returned to Princeton, but came to Oregon again in 1861. He is a prominent dealer in real estate in Portland. He has been a member of the City Council, County Commissioner, and a member of the state Board of Equalization, as well as a delegate to many conventions.
LOWREY, John H., of Pendleton, was born in the City of Mexico, of American parents, December 25, 1869, and has resided in Umatilla County since four years of age. He is a strong Republican and a member of the Republican Club. In 1894 he stumped the county. He was appointed Deputy District Attorney by John L. Rand in 1894, and in March, 1895, was appointed District Attorney by Governor Lord, having the endorsement of the leading citizens of the district.
LUCAS, COLONEL, JAP P., of Monmouth, was born there June 3, 1856. He graduated from Monmouth College, and in 1882 moved to Wasco County, where he engaged in merchandising till appointed Clerk of Gilliam County, in 1885, to which office he was five times re-elected. He resigned in 1895, to return to Monmouth to live. In Gilliam County he was chairman of the state central committee, and delegate to county and state conventions and league meetings. For five years he was a member of the Third Regiment, O. N. G., holding the commissions of Captain, Major, and Colonel.
LUHRS, JOHN, of Pilot Rock, was born in Germany, April 4, 1836. HE came to Oregon in 1858 and settled in Umatilla County in 1863. Mr. Luhrs is an active Republican, and was a delegate to the county conventions to 1884, 1888, and 1890. In 1886 he was elected County Commissioner and served six years, and in 1892, was the nominee for Sheriff.
MADDOCK, ELI C., Sheriff of Clackamas County, lives at Oregon City. He was born in Butler County, Ohio, March 11, 1852, and came to Oregon from Illinois in December, 1875. He was engaged in building wing dams in the Willamette river for a time, and then followed steamboating and farming. He has been an earnest and active Republican at home, and has represented the county at state conventions. He was a delegate to the county conventions of 1886, and 1890, state convention of 1890, and State League of 1895. He was Justice of the Peace for New Era in 1890-91, was nominated for Sheriff in 1892, and elected Sheriff in 1894. He has made a capable and energetic official.
MACK, J. O., of The Dalles, was born in Northfield, Vermont in 1851. He is an earnest Republican, and was a member of the Wasco County conventions of 1886, and 1888.
MACKAY, HON. DONALD, of Portland, was born in Ontario Province, Canada, December 3, 1841. In 1865 he came to Portland and engaged in contracting and building, and is now extensively engaged in the lumbering business. In 1880 he was elected to the City Council, and served two terms. In 1888 he was elected to the state senate and sat during two sessions. He is again nominated for the state senate on one of the Republican tickets.
MACRUM, I. W., of Forest Grove, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1842. He was educated at the Leechburg Institute and the State Normal School, and began teaching as principal of a school in Pittsburg. Three years later he secured an interest in the Newell Institutes and taught there eleven years. In 1870 he came to Oregon and was principal of the Oregon City schools three years. In 1874 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Portland as one of the firm Johnson, McCrow and Macrum. In 1883 he became cashier of the Willamette Savings Bank, and continued when it was converted into the Merchants’ National in 1886. He resigned his position three years ago. From 1876 to 1880, Mr. Macrum served as Superintendent of Schools in Multnomah County. He has been frequently a member of conventions and league meetings, and in 1884 was elected a delegate to the National League.
MAGERS, HON. J. E., of McMinnville, County Judge of Yamhill County, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, September 25, 1847, and came to Oregon in 1852, living in Oregon City three years, Corvallis three years, and Marion County till he became of Age. He studies law and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1869, and for nine months was president of this class of 406 students. Since May, 1880, he has practiced law in McMinnville. Since 1882 he has been a delegate to every county convention and state convention but two. He has attended all state club meetings since 1892. He has been a member of the state central committee and chairman of the county central committee for twelve years. In 1882 he was nominated for the legislature, and in 1894 was elected County Judge.
MALLORY, HON. RUFUS, a leading attorney of Portland, was born in Coventry, New York, June 10, 1831. From 1851 to 1858 he clerked, taught school and read law at Andover, New York, and in Henry County, Iowa, when he came to Oregon. He taught school and studied law at Roseburg, was admitted to the bar in 1860, and the same year was elected District Attorney for the First District. In 1862 he was elected to the legislature. HE then settled in Salem, and was appointed Attorney of the Third District, being elected to that office in 1864. In 1886 he was elected to Congress, serving one term. In 1872 he was again elected to the legislature from Marion County, and became Speaker of the House. In 1874 he was appointed United States District Attorney, and was reappointed in 1878. In 1882 he went to India as a Special Agent of the United States Treasury Department. He has since practiced his profession in Portland, and is a member of the firm of Dolph, Mallory &Y Simon. He has been a prominent figure in Republican conventions and club meetings for more than thirty years.
MARKS, J. E., of Barlow, is a native of Clackamas County, where he was born February 8, 1873. He followed courses at the McMinncille College, Willamette University and Portland Law School, and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one. He was in the office of Strode & Wait as a student, and then located at Barlow. He was a delegate to the club conventions in 1895 and 1896.
MARQUAM, HON. PHILIP A., of Portland, was born near Baltimore, Maryland, February 28, 1823. He was admitted to the bar in Indiana, and practiced in Jasper County till 1849, when he went to California. He was elected the first Judge of Yolo County. In the fall of 1851 he located in Portland in the practice of lay. In 1862 he was elected Judge of Multnomah county, and re-elected four yeas later. In 1882 he was elected to the legislature. Originally a Whig, he became one of the earliest Republicans, and has so continued.
MARSTERS, HON. A. C., a merchant of Roseburg, was born in Le Seur, Minnesota, October 19, 1859, and came to Oregon in 1881, locating at Roseburg in the drug business. Mr. Marsters is a member of the Republican Club, has been a delegate to conventions, and in 1895, was elected Mayor of the city.
MARTIN, HON. WILLIAM, of Pendleton, was born in Hampshire County, West Virginia, May 5, 1822, and came to Oregon in 1843, settling in Marion County and engaging in farming. He moved to Umatilla County many years ago. He was a delegate to the state convention in 1886. In 1880, 1882 and 1884 Mr. Martin was elected Sheriff of
Umatilla County, and in 1888 was elected County Judge, being re-elected in 1892, and being now for a third time the Republican nominee.
MASON, W. S., of Portland, was born in Virginia in 1832. In 1882 he came to Portland and became a partner in the firm of McCraken, Mason & Co., wholesale grocers, and a few years later entered the firm of Mason, Ehrman & Co. in the same line of trade. He is an ardent Republican and an active member of the James G. Blaine Club. He has been a delegate to conventions and league meetings frequently. In 1892 Mr. Mason was elected the first Mayor of the consolidated City of Portland, at a time when there was a great popular demand for a business administration free from the dictation and methods of political bosses. Such an administration he gave the city, fulfilling in every particular the expectations of his friends. He was again nominated for Mayor by one branch of the Republican party this year, but declined to accept.
MATTHEWS, JOHN E., of Newport, is a native of Belfast, Ireland, and was formerly a captain in the Fourteenth Regiment of the British army. He came to America in 1873 and pre-empted a cattle ranch near Kingman, Kansas, and remained there ten years. He then went to Tacoma, and to Newport, in 1889, where he established the Yaquina Bay News, of which his son, William Mathews, is editor. IT is a Republican paper.
MAXWELL, HON. H. W., was born in Illinois in 1831. He served in the army through the war, and came to Oregon in 1882, settling finally in Tillamook County. He has sat in the legislature three sessions, once in the house and twice in the senate, and has been a member of county, district and state committees, and a delegate to county, district and state conventions and league meetings.
MAYGER, GEORGE G., of Mayger, was born at Freeport, Washington, October 21, 1868. HE is a graduate of the Portland public schools and the Portland Business College, and for ten years has been interested in the extensive lumber business of the Mayger Company at Mayger. He is an active Republican, and was nominated for Assessor of Columbia County when but twenty-one years of age. He has been a delegate to three county conventions, one state convention and the league, and a member of the county committee.
MAYS, FRANKLIN P., an attorney of Portland, was born in Lane County, Oregon, May 12, 1855. He was reared on a farm, but attended the Willamette University, Graduating in 1876. He then spent his summers on a stock ranch in Wasco County and his winters reading law at The Dalles, and was admitted to the bar in 1880, forming a partnership with Hon. W. Lair Hill. He then became a member of the firm Mays, Huntington & Wilson. Since 1893 he has been practicing in Portland, and is now associated with Hon. C. H. Carey. Me, Mays has always been a staunch Republican, and has done much effective work in conventions on the stump. He has been a member of state conventions, central state committee, and of the executive committee of the state league, from 1894 to 1896. He was a delegate to the national convention of 1888, and was one of the committee selected to notify President Harrison of his nomination. Mr. Mays is now president of the Multorpor Republican Club.
MAYS, HON. ROBERT, of The Dalles, was born on a farm in Tennessee in 1830, and educated in the common schools. He was reared in Illinois, and in 1852 crossed the plains to Oregon, and located in Lane County. In 1858 he moved to Wasco County, where he has ever since been engaged in farming and stock-raising, and is one of the most successful men in the county. For the past twenty-four years he has resided in The Dalles. Mr. Mays was elected as a democrat to the legislature in 1860, but was one of those who voted for Colonel E. D. Baker for Senator, and has ever since been a Republican. He was again elected in 1874. Recently he served two terms as Mayor of Dalles City, and is now the Republican nominee for Judge of Wasco County. HE has continuously taken an active part in Republican work. Mr. Mays has a large landed and stock interests, and is interested in two large stores.
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, pages 235-240.
LEWIS, ANDREW T., of Portland, was born in Johnson County, Indiana, November 10, 1848. Eight years later he removed with his father’s family to Champaign County, Illinois. He was educated in the public schools and attended the normal of that state, graduating in 1871, and became a teacher. He taught school in Texas for a time, and then returned to Illinois and commenced the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1873. He still pursued the study of law, taking a course at the University of Michigan and graduating in 1875. He was then elected City Attorney of Urbana, Illinois, and continued the practice there till 1879, when he went to Dakota, where he again took to the work of teaching. Later he returned to his home and continues the practice of law, until appointed Clerk of the District Court of the District of Alaska, and ex-officio secretary and treasurer of said district, by President Arthur, in 1884, where he remained until 1887, when he went to Los Angeles County, California. He came to Portland in 1888, when he immediately commenced the practice of law, and is today one of the city’s well-known attorneys. Mr. Lewis has always been an earnest, active Republican, and the party always knows just where he stands.
LOCKWOOD, C. M., Chief Clerk of the Secretary of State, was born at The Dalles, Oregon, June 26, 1870, and has lived at or near Salem since 1876. For thirteen years he was manager of the Postal Telegraph office at Salem, and is now owner of the Lockwood messenger system and interested in the bicycle trade.
LOGAN, HON. DAVID, deceased, was one of the founders and leaders of the Republican party in Oregon. He was a son of Judge Logan, partner and intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln. Coming to Oregon in early territorial days, he soon took high rank at the bar and as an orator. In 1859 he ran for congress on the Republican ticket, and was defeated, but in 1860 he again ran, and was, the first Republican to represent the state of Oregon in congress. He was again the Republican candidate in 1868.
LOONEY, D. H., of Jefferson, was born in Marion County, Oregon, December 9, 1850, and has always lived there. He is by occupation a farmer and stockman, and has been president of the Sate Board of Agriculture. Mr. Looney has taken a prominent part in politics, having been a delegate to county conventions since 1872, to state conventions, and a member of the state central committee.
LORD, CHARLES F., of Portland, nominated for District Attorney of the Fourth District, was born at Alfred, York County, Maine, September 3, 1866, completing his education at Bowdoin College, class of 188. For the past six years he has had a prominent place at the bar in Portland, and was a member of the city and county conventions in 1894 and 1896. He has done much work on the stump, and is a fluent speaker.
LORD, HON. WILLIAM P., Governor of Oregon, was born in Dover, Delaware, in 1838. He graduated from Fairfield College, New York, and read law. He was among the first to volunteer when the war broke out, enlisting in a battalion of Delaware cavalry, and served through the war with the rank of major. He then graduated from the Albany Law College, and accepted a commission as lieutenant in the regular army. He was stationed in the Welt and finally Alaska. Later he resigned and began the practice of his profession in Sale, Oregon. In 1878 the Republicans of Marion County elected him to the State Senate, and in 1880 he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Couth, and became Chief Justice. He was re-elected in 1882 and in 1888, and in 1895 was inaugurated Governor of the state, to which office he was elected before his term as judge fully expired. Under him Oregon began to enjoy the first Republican administration of his office justifies the confidence that was placed in him by the people.
LOTAN, JAMES, of Portland, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1843. He early received a practical education as a machinist, but dropped his trade to enlist in the army, serving through an enlistment of two years. He then worked in the Washington navy yard. In 1864 he came to the Pacific Coast, and settled in Portland in 1865. In 1872 he became Superintendent of the Willamette Iron Works, of which he subsequently became half owner. Mr. Lotan has been a leader of in the Republican party, both local and state, for years. He has frequently been chairman of the city, county and state central committees and a member of nearly every convention for many years. In 1870 he was appointed United States Inspector of Vessels at this port. In 1889 he was appointed Collector of Customs by President Harrison. In 1883 he was appointed Fire Commissioner of Portland, and held that position for nine years.
LOVELL, FRANK K., auditing clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, is a native Oregonian and an earnest Republican. He occupied the same position under Secretary McBride, and by his promptness, accuracy, faithfulness and courtesy, has won the good will of the hundreds all over the states who have come in official contact with him. Such officials for much to make even political opponents feel resigned to the fact that Republicans are in power.
LOVE, GEORGE M., a merchant of Jacksonville, was born at that place December 29, 1860, and has always lived there. He is a working Republican and was a delegate to all the county conventions from 1884 to 1892, and the state conventions of 1890, 1892 and 1894. In 1888 he was nominated assessor. He was appointed Postmaster by President Harrison, and served till July 1, 1894.
LOWELL, HON. STEPHEN A., of Pendleton, was born at Minot, Maine, in 1859. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, and in 1891 located in Pendleton. He was a delegate to the league convention in 1892 and the state convention in 1894. He was Supreme Court Clerk for the Eastern District in 1893 and 1894 and City Attorney in 1894. In 1895 he was appointed Judge of the Sixth Judicial District by Governor Lord. And is now the party nominee.
LOWNSDALE, J. P. O., of Portland, son of Daniel Lownsdale, one of the first settlers of Portland, in 1845, was born in Princeton, Indiana, January 1, 1830. He came to Oregon in 1851. In 1853 he returned to Princeton, but came to Oregon again in 1861. He is a prominent dealer in real estate in Portland. He has been a member of the City Council, County Commissioner, and a member of the state Board of Equalization, as well as a delegate to many conventions.
LOWREY, John H., of Pendleton, was born in the City of Mexico, of American parents, December 25, 1869, and has resided in Umatilla County since four years of age. He is a strong Republican and a member of the Republican Club. In 1894 he stumped the county. He was appointed Deputy District Attorney by John L. Rand in 1894, and in March, 1895, was appointed District Attorney by Governor Lord, having the endorsement of the leading citizens of the district.
LUCAS, COLONEL, JAP P., of Monmouth, was born there June 3, 1856. He graduated from Monmouth College, and in 1882 moved to Wasco County, where he engaged in merchandising till appointed Clerk of Gilliam County, in 1885, to which office he was five times re-elected. He resigned in 1895, to return to Monmouth to live. In Gilliam County he was chairman of the state central committee, and delegate to county and state conventions and league meetings. For five years he was a member of the Third Regiment, O. N. G., holding the commissions of Captain, Major, and Colonel.
LUHRS, JOHN, of Pilot Rock, was born in Germany, April 4, 1836. HE came to Oregon in 1858 and settled in Umatilla County in 1863. Mr. Luhrs is an active Republican, and was a delegate to the county conventions to 1884, 1888, and 1890. In 1886 he was elected County Commissioner and served six years, and in 1892, was the nominee for Sheriff.
MADDOCK, ELI C., Sheriff of Clackamas County, lives at Oregon City. He was born in Butler County, Ohio, March 11, 1852, and came to Oregon from Illinois in December, 1875. He was engaged in building wing dams in the Willamette river for a time, and then followed steamboating and farming. He has been an earnest and active Republican at home, and has represented the county at state conventions. He was a delegate to the county conventions of 1886, and 1890, state convention of 1890, and State League of 1895. He was Justice of the Peace for New Era in 1890-91, was nominated for Sheriff in 1892, and elected Sheriff in 1894. He has made a capable and energetic official.
MACK, J. O., of The Dalles, was born in Northfield, Vermont in 1851. He is an earnest Republican, and was a member of the Wasco County conventions of 1886, and 1888.
MACKAY, HON. DONALD, of Portland, was born in Ontario Province, Canada, December 3, 1841. In 1865 he came to Portland and engaged in contracting and building, and is now extensively engaged in the lumbering business. In 1880 he was elected to the City Council, and served two terms. In 1888 he was elected to the state senate and sat during two sessions. He is again nominated for the state senate on one of the Republican tickets.
MACRUM, I. W., of Forest Grove, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1842. He was educated at the Leechburg Institute and the State Normal School, and began teaching as principal of a school in Pittsburg. Three years later he secured an interest in the Newell Institutes and taught there eleven years. In 1870 he came to Oregon and was principal of the Oregon City schools three years. In 1874 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Portland as one of the firm Johnson, McCrow and Macrum. In 1883 he became cashier of the Willamette Savings Bank, and continued when it was converted into the Merchants’ National in 1886. He resigned his position three years ago. From 1876 to 1880, Mr. Macrum served as Superintendent of Schools in Multnomah County. He has been frequently a member of conventions and league meetings, and in 1884 was elected a delegate to the National League.
MAGERS, HON. J. E., of McMinnville, County Judge of Yamhill County, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, September 25, 1847, and came to Oregon in 1852, living in Oregon City three years, Corvallis three years, and Marion County till he became of Age. He studies law and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1869, and for nine months was president of this class of 406 students. Since May, 1880, he has practiced law in McMinnville. Since 1882 he has been a delegate to every county convention and state convention but two. He has attended all state club meetings since 1892. He has been a member of the state central committee and chairman of the county central committee for twelve years. In 1882 he was nominated for the legislature, and in 1894 was elected County Judge.
MALLORY, HON. RUFUS, a leading attorney of Portland, was born in Coventry, New York, June 10, 1831. From 1851 to 1858 he clerked, taught school and read law at Andover, New York, and in Henry County, Iowa, when he came to Oregon. He taught school and studied law at Roseburg, was admitted to the bar in 1860, and the same year was elected District Attorney for the First District. In 1862 he was elected to the legislature. HE then settled in Salem, and was appointed Attorney of the Third District, being elected to that office in 1864. In 1886 he was elected to Congress, serving one term. In 1872 he was again elected to the legislature from Marion County, and became Speaker of the House. In 1874 he was appointed United States District Attorney, and was reappointed in 1878. In 1882 he went to India as a Special Agent of the United States Treasury Department. He has since practiced his profession in Portland, and is a member of the firm of Dolph, Mallory &Y Simon. He has been a prominent figure in Republican conventions and club meetings for more than thirty years.
MARKS, J. E., of Barlow, is a native of Clackamas County, where he was born February 8, 1873. He followed courses at the McMinncille College, Willamette University and Portland Law School, and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one. He was in the office of Strode & Wait as a student, and then located at Barlow. He was a delegate to the club conventions in 1895 and 1896.
MARQUAM, HON. PHILIP A., of Portland, was born near Baltimore, Maryland, February 28, 1823. He was admitted to the bar in Indiana, and practiced in Jasper County till 1849, when he went to California. He was elected the first Judge of Yolo County. In the fall of 1851 he located in Portland in the practice of lay. In 1862 he was elected Judge of Multnomah county, and re-elected four yeas later. In 1882 he was elected to the legislature. Originally a Whig, he became one of the earliest Republicans, and has so continued.
MARSTERS, HON. A. C., a merchant of Roseburg, was born in Le Seur, Minnesota, October 19, 1859, and came to Oregon in 1881, locating at Roseburg in the drug business. Mr. Marsters is a member of the Republican Club, has been a delegate to conventions, and in 1895, was elected Mayor of the city.
MARTIN, HON. WILLIAM, of Pendleton, was born in Hampshire County, West Virginia, May 5, 1822, and came to Oregon in 1843, settling in Marion County and engaging in farming. He moved to Umatilla County many years ago. He was a delegate to the state convention in 1886. In 1880, 1882 and 1884 Mr. Martin was elected Sheriff of
Umatilla County, and in 1888 was elected County Judge, being re-elected in 1892, and being now for a third time the Republican nominee.
MASON, W. S., of Portland, was born in Virginia in 1832. In 1882 he came to Portland and became a partner in the firm of McCraken, Mason & Co., wholesale grocers, and a few years later entered the firm of Mason, Ehrman & Co. in the same line of trade. He is an ardent Republican and an active member of the James G. Blaine Club. He has been a delegate to conventions and league meetings frequently. In 1892 Mr. Mason was elected the first Mayor of the consolidated City of Portland, at a time when there was a great popular demand for a business administration free from the dictation and methods of political bosses. Such an administration he gave the city, fulfilling in every particular the expectations of his friends. He was again nominated for Mayor by one branch of the Republican party this year, but declined to accept.
MATTHEWS, JOHN E., of Newport, is a native of Belfast, Ireland, and was formerly a captain in the Fourteenth Regiment of the British army. He came to America in 1873 and pre-empted a cattle ranch near Kingman, Kansas, and remained there ten years. He then went to Tacoma, and to Newport, in 1889, where he established the Yaquina Bay News, of which his son, William Mathews, is editor. IT is a Republican paper.
MAXWELL, HON. H. W., was born in Illinois in 1831. He served in the army through the war, and came to Oregon in 1882, settling finally in Tillamook County. He has sat in the legislature three sessions, once in the house and twice in the senate, and has been a member of county, district and state committees, and a delegate to county, district and state conventions and league meetings.
MAYGER, GEORGE G., of Mayger, was born at Freeport, Washington, October 21, 1868. HE is a graduate of the Portland public schools and the Portland Business College, and for ten years has been interested in the extensive lumber business of the Mayger Company at Mayger. He is an active Republican, and was nominated for Assessor of Columbia County when but twenty-one years of age. He has been a delegate to three county conventions, one state convention and the league, and a member of the county committee.
MAYS, FRANKLIN P., an attorney of Portland, was born in Lane County, Oregon, May 12, 1855. He was reared on a farm, but attended the Willamette University, Graduating in 1876. He then spent his summers on a stock ranch in Wasco County and his winters reading law at The Dalles, and was admitted to the bar in 1880, forming a partnership with Hon. W. Lair Hill. He then became a member of the firm Mays, Huntington & Wilson. Since 1893 he has been practicing in Portland, and is now associated with Hon. C. H. Carey. Me, Mays has always been a staunch Republican, and has done much effective work in conventions on the stump. He has been a member of state conventions, central state committee, and of the executive committee of the state league, from 1894 to 1896. He was a delegate to the national convention of 1888, and was one of the committee selected to notify President Harrison of his nomination. Mr. Mays is now president of the Multorpor Republican Club.
MAYS, HON. ROBERT, of The Dalles, was born on a farm in Tennessee in 1830, and educated in the common schools. He was reared in Illinois, and in 1852 crossed the plains to Oregon, and located in Lane County. In 1858 he moved to Wasco County, where he has ever since been engaged in farming and stock-raising, and is one of the most successful men in the county. For the past twenty-four years he has resided in The Dalles. Mr. Mays was elected as a democrat to the legislature in 1860, but was one of those who voted for Colonel E. D. Baker for Senator, and has ever since been a Republican. He was again elected in 1874. Recently he served two terms as Mayor of Dalles City, and is now the Republican nominee for Judge of Wasco County. HE has continuously taken an active part in Republican work. Mr. Mays has a large landed and stock interests, and is interested in two large stores.
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Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Lane & Deschutes County
Three Sisters, Lane County / Deschutes County, Oregon. 1917. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Wasco County
The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon. 1926. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Jackson County
Table Rock Battle Monument, Jackson County, Oregon. 1910. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Linn County
Sweet Home, Linn County, Oregon. 1910. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Douglas County
Sutherlin Valley, Douglas County, Oregon. 1909. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Douglas County
Sutherlin, Douglas County, Oregon. 1912. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Columbia County
St. Helens, Columbia County, Oregon. 1916. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
Oregon Republican League Photo History Series: Marion County
Stayton, Marion County, Oregon. 1911. RPPC from the Oregon Republican League Collection, on loan.
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