Theodore Ralph Kulongoski is an American politician,judge,and lawyer who served as the 36th Governor of Oregon from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party,he served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and also served as the state Insurance Commissioner. He was the Attorney General of Oregon from 1993 to 1997 and a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1997 to 2001. Kulongoski has served in all three branches of the Oregon state government.
John Albert Kitzhaber is an American former politician and physician who served as the 35th and 37th governor of Oregon from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2011 to 2015. In February 2015,shortly after beginning his fourth term,Kitzhaber resigned from office and was replaced by Secretary of State Kate Brown. A member of the Democratic Party,Kitzhaber was the longest-serving governor in the state's history.
Kevin Leese Mannix is an American politician,business attorney,and former chairman of the Republican Party in the U.S. state of Oregon.
The 2006 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on November 7,2006. Incumbent Democratic Governor of Oregon Ted Kulongoski ran for a second and final term as governor. Kulongoski faced several challengers in his primary,whom he dispatched to win his party's nomination a second time,while Republican nominee Ron Saxton,the former Chair of the Portland Public Schools Board and a candidate for governor in 2002 emerged from a crowded primary. Kulongoski and Saxton were initially going to be challenged in the general election by State Senator Ben Westlund,but Westlund withdrew his candidacy before the general election. There were multiple independent and third party challengers on the ballot as well. In a hard-fought campaign,Kulongoski won re-election by a surprisingly wide margin,winning his second term as governor.
The Oregon Republican Party is the state affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Oregon,headquartered in Salem. The party was established in the Oregon Territory in February 1857 as the "Free State Republican Party of Oregon" and held its first state convention on April 1,1859,after Oregon achieved statehood.
Vicki Lynn Walker is an American politician. She served as the Oregon State Director for Rural Development with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A member of the Democratic Party,Walker previously served in both houses of the Oregon Legislature and briefly served as chair of the state's parole board. Walker is known as an advocate for utility customers and as an outspoken critic of influential former Governor Neil Goldschmidt.
Bill Bradbury was an American politician who served as a member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and as the 23rd Oregon secretary of state from 1999 to 2009. Bradbury was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2010 Oregon gubernatorial election. In 2010,he was appointed to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council by Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski.
Jason Atkinson is an American politician in the US state of Oregon. The Republican grew up in the Southern Oregon city of Ashland. He served as a senator in the Oregon State Senate from 2001 to 2013. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for Governor of Oregon in 2006. He stated his intention to run in the 2010 Oregon gubernatorial election,but withdrew from the race in 2009.
Ben Cannon is an American educator and policymaker from Oregon. He was elected in 2006 to the Oregon House of Representatives,representing the state's 46th District,which covers portions of southeast and northeast Portland. He won re-election in 2008 and 2010. In 2011,he resigned to become the Education Policy Advisor to Governor John Kitzhaber. In 2013,he was appointed to lead Oregon's new Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
The Willamette University MBA (Atkinson) is the Masters in Business Administration (MBA) program at Willamette University in Salem,Oregon,United States. It is one of only two MBA programs in the world accredited for both Business Administration and Public Administration (NASPAA). Atkinson was established by Willamette in 1974 and has an enrollment of approximately 312 students.
Dennis Michael Richardson was an American attorney,businessman,and politician who served as the 26th Secretary of State of Oregon from 2017 until his death in 2019. Richardson was from Central Point,Oregon and served six terms in the Oregon House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party. He represented House District 4,which included portions of Jackson and Josephine counties,and was the Republican nominee for Governor of Oregon in the 2014 election,losing to incumbent Democrat John Kitzhaber.
Verne Allen Duncan is an American politician from the state of Oregon. As an educator and moderate Republican,he has become outspoken in protest of policies of his own party he views as extreme.
Merwyn Ronald "Mitch" Greenlick was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. He represented District 33 of the Oregon House of Representatives.
The 2002 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on November 5,2002. Incumbent Democrat John Kitzhaber was barred by term limits from seeking a third consecutive term;he later successfully ran again in 2010 and 2014. To replace him,former Oregon Supreme Court Associate Justice Ted Kulongoski won a crowded and competitive Democratic primary,while former State Representative Kevin Mannix emerged from an equally competitive Republican primary. The campaign between Kulongoski and Mannix,who were joined by Libertarian nominee Tom Cox,was close and went down to the wire. Ultimately,Kulongoski eked out a narrow margin of victory over Mannix,which was slightly smaller than Cox's total vote share,allowing Kulongoski to win what would be the first of two terms as governor. As of 2024,this is the last time that Oregon voted for a gubernatorial nominee and a U.S. Senate nominee of different political parties.
Jack Roberts is an attorney and politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. A Republican,his highest office has been Oregon Commissioner of Labor and Industries,which he held from 1995 to 2003. He previously served as a Lane County commissioner from 1989 to 1995.
The Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly was the Oregon Legislative Assembly (OLA)'s period from 2007 to 2008. There was a regular session in 2007,and a shorter special session in 2008.
The 2010 Oregon gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday,November 2,2010 to elect the Governor of Oregon to a four-year term beginning on January 10,2011. The incumbent governor,Democrat Ted Kulongoski,was ineligible to run due to term limits barring him from being elected to more than two consecutive terms.
Rob Saxton is an educational administrator and former Interim Superintendent of Greater Albany Public Schools in Albany,Oregon from June 2021 to June 2022.
The 2014 Oregon gubernatorial election was held on November 4,2014,to elect the Governor of Oregon,concurrently with other elections in Oregon and across the United States.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Oregon on November 3,2020. Primary elections were held on May 19,2020.
