Sylvester Pennoyer was an American educator,attorney,and politician in Oregon. He was born in Groton,New York,attended Harvard Law School,and moved to Oregon at age 25. A Democrat,he served two terms as the eighth Governor of Oregon from 1887 to 1895. He joined the Populist cause in the early 1890s and became the second Populist Party state governor in history. He was noted for his political radicalism,his opposition to the conservative Bourbon Democracy of President Grover Cleveland,his support for labor unions,and his opposition to the Chinese in Oregon. He was also noted for his prickly attitude toward both U.S. Presidents whose terms overlapped his own -- Benjamin Harrison and Cleveland,whom he once famously told via telegram to mind his own business.
Pietro Belluschi was an Italian-American architect. A leading figure in modern architecture,he was responsible for the design of over 1,000 buildings.
George Henry Williams was an American judge and politician. He served as chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court,was the 32nd Attorney General of the United States,and was elected Oregon's U.S. senator,and served one term. Williams,as U.S. senator,authored and supported legislation that allowed the U.S. military to be deployed in Reconstruction of the southern states to allow for an orderly process of re-admittance into the United States. Williams was the first presidential Cabinet member to be appointed from the Pacific Coast. As attorney general under President Ulysses S. Grant,Williams continued the prosecutions that shut down the Ku Klux Klan. He had to contend with controversial election disputes in Reconstructed southern states. President Grant and Williams legally recognized P. B. S. Pinchback as the first African American state governor. Williams ruled that the Virginius,a gun-running ship delivering men and munitions to Cuban revolutionaries,which was captured by Spain during the Virginius Affair,did not have the right to bear the U.S. flag. However,he also argued that Spain did not have the right to execute American crew members. Nominated for Supreme Court Chief Justice by President Grant,Williams failed to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate primarily due to Williams's opposition to U.S. Attorney A. C. Gibbs,his former law partner,who refused to stop investigating Republican fraud in the special congressional election that resulted in a victory for Democrat James Nesmith.
Alexander Phimister Proctor was an American sculptor with the contemporary reputation as one of the nation's foremost animaliers.
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is an American fraternal order founded in 1868,originally as a social club in New York City.
David Preston Thompson was an American businessman and politician in the Pacific Northwest. He was governor of the Idaho Territory from 1875 to 1876. A native of Ohio,he immigrated to the Oregon Territory in 1853. In Oregon,Thompson would become a wealthy business man,and served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly,as both a Republican and a Democrat,both before and after his time in Idaho,with election to both chambers of the legislature.
Frederick Steiwer was an American politician and lawyer in the state of Oregon.
Matthew Paul Deady was a politician and jurist in the Oregon Territory and the state of Oregon of the United States. He served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1853 to 1859,at which time he was appointed to the newly created federal court of the state. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland,as the sole Judge until his death in 1893. While on the court he presided over the trial that led to the United States Supreme Court decision of Pennoyer v. Neff concerning personal jurisdiction.
Asa Lawrence Lovejoy was an American pioneer and politician in the region that would become the U.S. state of Oregon. He is best remembered as a founder of the city of Portland,Oregon. He was an attorney in Boston,Massachusetts before traveling by land to Oregon;he was a legislator in the Provisional Government of Oregon,mayor of Oregon City,and a general during the Cayuse War that followed the Whitman massacre in 1847. He was also a candidate for Provisional Governor in 1847,before the Oregon Territory was founded,but lost that election.
Julius L. Meier was an American businessman,civic leader,and politician in the state of Oregon. The son of the Meier &Frank department store founder,he would become a lawyer before entering the family business in Portland. Politically an independent,Meier served a single term as the 20th Governor of Oregon from 1931 to 1935. He is the only independent to be elected Governor of Oregon.
Reuben Patrick Boise was an American attorney,judge and politician in the Oregon Territory and the early years of the state of Oregon. A native of Massachusetts,he immigrated to Oregon in 1850,where he would twice serve on the Oregon Supreme Court for a total of 16 years,with three stints as chief justice. Early in his legal career,he worked as a district attorney.
Frank A. Moore was an American politician and judge in the state of Oregon. He was the 17th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. He is the only person to serve as chief justice for Oregon’s highest court on four occasions,and he spent 26 years overall on the bench. A native of Maine,he was also a two-time Republican member of the Oregon State Senate.
George W. P. Joseph was an attorney and Republican politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of California,his family relocated to Oregon when he was young. There he would practice law and serve in the Oregon State Senate.
John Virginius Bennes was an American architect who designed numerous buildings throughout the state of Oregon,particularly in Baker City and Portland. In Baker City he did an extensive redesign of the Geiser Grand Hotel,designed several homes,and a now-demolished Elks building. He moved to Portland in 1907 and continued practicing there until 1942.
Jeremiah Joseph Hurley was an American professional baseball player and government official. He played in Major League Baseball,mostly as a catcher,from 1889 to 1891.
John G. Price was a Republican lawyer from the U.S. state of Ohio who served as Ohio Attorney General 1919–1923.
Frank Livezey Roberts was an American politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat,Roberts served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. He served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives and most of five terms in the Oregon Senate before resigning due to poor health. Roberts was married three times,including to Barbara Roberts,who was the first woman to serve as Governor of Oregon,and to Betty Roberts,who was the first woman to serve as a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.
Mary Wendy Roberts is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. At 27,Roberts was the youngest woman ever elected to the Oregon Legislative Assembly. She was elected to the Oregon State Senate in 1974. In 1978,at 33,she became the first woman Democrat to win Oregon statewide office,serving for 16 years as Oregon Commissioner of Labor,the chief executive of the state agency that enforces the state civil rights and wage-hour laws,and oversees apprenticeship programs.
Thompson Elk Fountain,also known as the David P. Thompson Fountain,David P. Thompson Monument,Elk Fountain,the Thompson Elk,or simply Elk,was a historic fountain and bronze sculpture by American artist Roland Hinton Perry. The fountain with its statue was donated to the city of Portland,Oregon,United States,in 1900 for display in Downtown Portland's Plaza Blocks. It was owned by the City of Portland.
Hobson R. Reynolds was an African-American funeral director,a state legislator,public official,judge,and civil rights leader who lived in Pennsylvania.
