Sandy is a city located in Clackamas County,Oregon,United States,settled c. 1853 and named after the nearby Sandy River. Located in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range,the city serves as the western gateway to the Mount Hood Corridor,and is located approximately 27 miles (43 km) east of Portland.
Hood River is a city and the seat of Hood River County,Oregon,United States. It is a port on the Columbia River,and is named for the nearby Hood River. As of the 2020 census,the city population was 8,313. It is the only city in Oregon where public consumption of alcohol on sidewalks or parks is completely unrestricted.
Mount Hood,also known as Wy'east,is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range and is a member of the Cascade Volcanic Arc. It was formed by a subduction zone on the Pacific Coast and rests in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located about 50 mi (80 km) east-southeast of Portland,on the border between Clackamas and Hood River counties,and forms part of the Mount Hood National Forest. Much of the mountain outside the ski areas is part of the Mount Hood Wilderness. With a summit elevation of 11,249 ft,it is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the fourth highest in the Cascade Range. Ski areas on the mountain include Timberline Lodge ski area which offers the only year-round lift-served skiing in North America,Mount Hood Meadows,Mount Hood Skibowl,Summit Ski Area,and Cooper Spur ski area. Mt. Hood attracts an estimated 10,000 climbers a year.
Gregory Paul Walden is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 2nd congressional district from 1999 to 2021. He is a Republican. Walden is the son of three-term Oregon State Representative Paul E. Walden. In October 2019,Walden announced that he would not run for reelection in 2020.
Rufus Cecil Holman was an American politician and businessman who served as a United States senator for a single term during World War II. He was an officer in the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s,then served as Oregon State Treasurer. He was a member of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners.
Charles William Fulton was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Ohio,he grew up in Iowa and Nebraska before settling in Astoria,Oregon. A Republican,he served in the Oregon State Senate,including time as President of the Senate,before he was elected as United States Senator from Oregon.
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.
General Joel Palmer was an American pioneer of the Oregon Territory in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. He was born in Upper Canada,and spent his early years in New York and Pennsylvania before serving as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
Minoru Yasui was an American lawyer from Oregon. Born in Hood River,Oregon,he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon. He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants. His case was the first case to test the constitutionality of the curfews targeted at minority groups.
Dee is an unincorporated community and former company town in Hood River County,Oregon,United States,on Oregon Route 281,about 11 miles south of Hood River.
Peter John Stadelman was an American businessman and politician from the state of Oregon. A native of New York,he was raised in The Dalles,Oregon,where he was a prominent businessman and mayor. A Republican,he served as Oregon Secretary of State during The Great Depression and later in the Oregon State Senate.
Henry Ladd Corbett was an American businessman,civic leader,and politician in the state of Oregon. He was born into one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Oregon. Corbett attended Harvard University and then returned to Oregon to manage family business interests. Over the years,he served as president of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and president of Portland Port Commission. He also represented Multnomah County in the Oregon State Senate,serving two terms as President of the Senate. He served as acting governor of Oregon twice in 1927.
Kenneth Allen Jernstedt was an American Flying Tigers fighter pilot,a test pilot,a politician and a businessman.
Alfred Hoyt Corbett was an American attorney,businessman,and politician in the state of Oregon. Born into one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Oregon,he attended Harvard University and then Yale Law School. He served twelve years in the Oregon Legislative Assembly,representing Multnomah County in the Oregon House of Representatives and then the Oregon State Senate.
Benjamin M. Musa was an American politician who served four terms in the Oregon State Senate between 1949 and 1968,including serving as President of the Oregon Senate during the 1963–1964 legislative term. A CPA,he was a conservative Democrat from a rural district,known for his ability to work with Republicans as well as fellow Democrats in the state senate. Musa ran for governor in 1966,but lost the Democratic primary to Robert W. Straub.
Charles Amos Cogswell was an American politician and attorney from the state of Oregon. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war,he moved to Lakeview,Oregon,where he became the area's first practicing attorney and was co-founder of the Lake County Examiner. Cogswell was elected to two four-year terms in the Oregon State Senate. During his tenure in the legislature,he was known as a conservative Democrat;however,near the end of his second term in the senate,he became a Republican. After retiring from his law practice,Cogswell moved to Portland,Oregon,where he was active in business and engaged in public service.
Morris Hood Jr. was a Democratic member of the Michigan House of Representatives,representing part of Detroit from 1971 until his death in 1998.
Albert Harry Densmore,also known as Al Densmore,is an American politician and businessman from Medford,Oregon. He served three terms as a Democrat in the Oregon House of Representatives. During his last term,he was speaker pro tempore in the House of Representatives. After leaving the legislature,Densmore was elected mayor of Medford and later served on the Medford city council.
Jeffrey Allen Helfrich is the Minority Leader of the Oregon House of Representatives. A Republican,he represents the 52nd district,which covers all of Hood River County and parts of Clackamas,Multnomah and Wasco counties.
Kessler Richard Cannon was an American radio broadcaster and state legislator from Oregon. He was a Republican who served two two-year terms in the Oregon House of Representatives. Outside the legislature,Cannon was a broadcaster and executive for radio station KBND in Bend. He also served as Governor Tom McCall's assistant for natural resources before becoming director of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
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