McMinnville is the county seat of and most populous city in Yamhill County,Oregon,United States at the base of the Oregon Coast Range. The city is named after McMinnville,Tennessee. As of the 2020 census,the city had a population of 34,319.
Milwaukie is a city mostly in Clackamas County,Oregon,United States;a very small portion of the city extends into Multnomah County. The population was 21,119 at the 2020 census. Founded in 1847 on the banks of the Willamette River,the city,known as the Dogwood City of the West,was incorporated in 1903 and is the birthplace of the Bing cherry. The city is now a suburb of Portland and also adjoins the unincorporated areas of Clackamas and Oak Grove.
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.
Ronald L. Saxton is an American lawyer,business person,and Republican politician in Oregon. He has run twice for Governor of Oregon,losing in the 2002 primary election,and winning the Republican nomination in 2006,but losing in the general election.
James Lee Bunn is an American politician from Oregon. A native of Yamhill County,he served in the Oregon State Senate before election to the United States House of Representatives,where he served for one term before losing re-election. A Republican,he now works as a correctional officer for the county.
Norma Jean Paulus was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Nebraska,she was raised in Eastern Oregon before becoming a lawyer. A Republican,she first held political office as a representative in the Oregon House of Representatives,and then became the first woman elected to statewide public office in Oregon when she became Oregon Secretary of State in 1977. Paulus later served as Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction for nine years. She made unsuccessful bids to become Governor of Oregon and United States Senator. Prior to her death on February 28,2019,Paulus lived in Portland,where she was involved with several non-profit groups and sponsored a ballot measure to create open primaries in Oregon's statewide elections.
Charles Starr is an American politician and farmer in Oregon. He served as a Republican member of the Oregon Legislature for 14 years,serving in both houses. A native of Texas,Starr served in the Oregon State Senate with his son Bruce Starr,the first time in Oregon's history a father and son served in the Senate together.
Walter Kurt Schrader is an American politician and veterinarian who served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 5th congressional district from 2009 to 2023. His district covered most of Oregon's central coast,plus Salem,and many of Portland's southern suburbs,and a sliver of Portland itself. A member of the Democratic Party,Schrader served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly from 1997 to 2008.
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 2023,this is the last time that Oregon voted for a gubernatorial nominee and a U.S. Senate nominee of different political parties.
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.
Monroe Mark Sweetland was an American politician in the state of Oregon. A native of the state,he served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly starting in 1953 for a total of ten years. A Democrat,he also twice ran and lost bids to serve as the Oregon Secretary of State and was a Democratic National Committeeman. Sweetland later served on the staff of the National Education Association,supporting passage of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968.
George Greenwood Bingham was an American judge and legal educator in the state of Oregon. A native of Wisconsin,he migrated to Oregon with his family in his teens,though he returned to the Midwest for his legal education. Bingham served as the second dean at the Willamette University College of Law and was also a judge for Multnomah County after previously serving as a district attorney for Salem and the state. His former home in Salem,the Dr. Luke A. Port House,is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lynn Snodgrass is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives. A Republican,she was elected Speaker in 1998,succeeding fellow Republican Lynn Lundquist. At the time,many Republicans felt Lundquist was too accommodating to Democratic Governor John Kitzhaber. Snodgrass was the first Portland-area Speaker since Vera Katz,whose term in that position ended in 1991.
Stan Bunn is an American politician and lawyer in the U.S. state of Oregon. Born and raised in Yamhill County,he is part of a political family that includes his brother Jim Bunn who served in Congress. A self-described moderate Republican,Stan served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly,including a successful run for the Oregon House of Representatives while in law school in 1972. Later he served as Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1999 to 2003,in a political career spanning four decades. In non-elective offices,he was chairman of the state's ethics commission and on the Oregon Traffic Safety Commission between stints in the legislature.
Rob Saxton is an educational administrator and former Interim Superintendent of Greater Albany Public Schools in Albany,Oregon from June 2021 to June 2022.
Roger Edward Martin was an American businessman,state legislator,and lobbyist from Oregon. He was an electric equipment sales executive with Martin Electric and served six terms in the Oregon House of Representatives. In 1978,Martin ran for governor of Oregon,but lost to Victor Atiyeh in the Republican primary. Following the 1978 election,Martin became a lobbyist at the Oregon State Capitol.
James John (1809–1886) was founder of the settlement of St. Johns in Oregon. The area later became a city when it passed a charter in 1902. It was annexed into Portland in 1915. John worked as a general store and ferry operator across the Willamette River to Linnton. He once served as Justice of the Peace and was twice an election judge. John was born in Ohio and first settled in Indiana with his wife and child where John worked as an educator. He joined the Bartleson–Bidwell Party in 1841,who were one of the first groups that trekked the California Trail. By this time,John's wife and child had died. He came to Oregon Country in the employment of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1843 after making it to Sacramento Valley.
The 2022 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Oregon. Incumbent Kate Brown took office when fellow Democrat John Kitzhaber resigned on February 18,2015. She won the subsequent 2016 special election a full term in 2018. Due to term limits,she was unable to run again in 2022.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Oregon on November 3,2020. Primary elections were held on May 19,2020.
The 2020 Oregon Secretary of State election was held on November 3,2020,to elect the Oregon Secretary of State,the highest office in the state after the governor. Incumbent Republican Bev Clarno had agreed not to run for a full term. Clarno was appointed by Governor Kate Brown to replace Dennis Richardson,who died of cancer during his term.
