97 Notable alumni of
Willamette University
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Willamette University is 1277th in the world, 460th in North America, and 432nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 97 notable alumni from Willamette University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Lisa Murkowski
- Enrolled in Willamette University
- Studied in 1975-1977
- In 1985 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Lisa Ann Murkowski is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator representing Alaska, having held that seat since 2002. She is the first woman to represent Alaska in the Senate and the Senate's second-most senior Republican woman, after Susan Collins of Maine. She became dean of Alaska's congressional delegation upon Representative Don Young's death.
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Jay Inslee
- Enrolled in Willamette University
- In 1976 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerinternational forum participantprosecutorpolitician
- Biography
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Jay Robert Inslee is an American politician, lawyer, and economist who has served as the 23rd governor of Washington since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995 and again from 1999 to 2012, and was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. He is the longest-serving current governor in the United States.
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Nick Symmonds
- Occupations
- middle-distance runnerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Nicholas Boone Symmonds is an American YouTube personality and retired middle-distance track athlete, from Boise, Idaho, who specialized in the 800 meters and 1500 meters distances. Symmonds signed with Brooks Running in January 2014 after a 7-year sponsorship with Nike. In college at Willamette University he won seven NCAA Division III titles in outdoor track. Symmonds is a 6-time US National 800 meters champion. He has competed in the 800m at two Olympic Games, reaching the semi-finals in Beijing 2008; in London 2012, he finished fifth in the final, running a personal best of 1:42.95 behind David Rudisha's world record. He won a silver medal in the 800 meters at the 2013 World Championships, having previously finished sixth in the 2009 final and fifth in the 2011 final.
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Punit Renjen
- Enrolled in Willamette University
- Graduated with master's degree in management
- Occupations
- chief executive officerbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Punit Renjen is an Indian-American businessman who has been chief executive officer of the multinational professional services firm Deloitte since June 1, 2015. Previously, Renjen was chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP, and later, held the role of chairman of Deloitte LLP (United States) from 2011 to 2015. Effective December 31, 2022, Renjen will become Global CEO Emeritus of Deloitte.
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Bob Packwood
- Enrolled in Willamette University
- Studied in 1954
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermember
- Biography
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Robert William Packwood is an American retired lawyer and politician from Oregon and a member of the Republican Party. He resigned from the United States Senate, under threat of expulsion, in 1995 after allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and assault of women emerged.
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Mark Hatfield
- Enrolled in Willamette University
- Studied in 1943
- Occupations
- peace activistdeanwriterpolitical scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Mark Odom Hatfield was an American politician and educator from the state of Oregon. A Republican, he served eight years as Governor of Oregon, followed by 30 years as one of its United States senators, including time as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. A native Oregonian, he served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II after graduating from Willamette University. After the war he earned a graduate degree from Stanford University before returning to Oregon and Willamette as a professor.
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Neil Everett
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Neil Everett Morfitt is an American sportscaster. From 2007 until 2023, he was the co-anchor of the West Coast edition of SportsCenter alongside Stan Verrett.
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Dale T. Mortensen
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantuniversity teacherprofessor
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Dale Thomas Mortensen was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Shemia Fagan
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerteacher
- Biography
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Shemia Patricia Fagan is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Oregon secretary of state from 2021 to 2023. She previously served as a Democratic member of the Oregon Senate, representing Senate District 24 from in 2019 to 2021. She also represented House District 51 from 2013 to 2017. In 2020, Fagan was elected as Oregon Secretary of State.
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Charles L. McNary
- Occupations
- lawyerprosecutorpoliticianjudge
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Charles Linza McNary was an American Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Senate Minority Leader from 1933 to 1944. In the Senate, McNary helped to pass legislation that led to the construction of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, and worked on agricultural and forestry issues. He also supported many of the New Deal programs at the beginning of the Great Depression. Until Mark Hatfield surpassed his mark in 1993, he was Oregon's longest-serving senator.
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Sam Farr
- Enrolled in Willamette University
- In 1963 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politicianPeace Corps
- Biography
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Samuel Sharon Farr is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for California's 17th (1993–2013) and 20th congressional districts (2013–17). He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected to Congress in a 1993 special election when longtime Democratic Rep. Leon Panetta resigned to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget. On November 12, 2015, he announced his retirement from Congress after the 2016 elections.
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Tobias Read
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tobias Read is an American politician who is the current Oregon State Treasurer. He was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 27 from 2007–2017, which comprises parts of Beaverton, southwest Portland, and unincorporated Multnomah and Washington Counties. He served as Speaker Pro Tempore and was formerly the Democratic Majority Whip.
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Willis C. Hawley
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Willis Chatman Hawley was an American politician and educator in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he would serve as president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he earned his undergraduate and law degrees before entering politics. A Republican, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon from 1907 to 1933 where he co-sponsored the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act in 1930.
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Norma Paulus
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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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.
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Jay Bowerman
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jay Bowerman was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 13th Governor of Oregon, for the final few months of the term of Frank Benson, who retired due to illness.
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Vic Snyder
- Enrolled in Willamette University
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Victor Frederick Snyder is an American physician, lawyer, and politician who was the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district from 1997 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War at the rank of corporal.
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Frederick Schwatka
- Occupations
- explorerwriterphysicianbotanist
- Biography
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Frederick Gustavus Schwatka was a United States Army lieutenant with degrees in medicine and law, and was a noted explorer of northern Canada and Alaska.
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Edith Green
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Edith Louise Starrett Green was an American politician and educator from Oregon. She was the second Oregonian woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served a total of ten terms, from 1955 to 1974, as a Democrat.
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James Albaugh
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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James F. Albaugh is the former executive vice president of The Boeing Company and chief executive officer of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes business unit. He served in these capacities for Boeing Commercial Airplanes from September 1, 2009, until his retirement on June 26, 2012. He retired from the company on October 1, 2012. He previously served as president and chief executive officer of the Boeing Defense, Space & Security business unit. Albaugh oversaw a $30.8 billion budget while managing over 70,000 personnel in that position. Albaugh earned $1,499,923 in 2005, making him one of the highest-paid managers in the defense sector.
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Denny Smith
- Occupations
- politicianaircraft pilotmilitary officer
- Biography
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Dennis Alan Smith is an American businessman and former United States congressman from the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he served in the Air Force before working in the airline industry and taking over the family's newspaper business. A Republican, he served ten years in Congress from 1981 until 1991. His father was former Oregon Governor Elmo Smith.
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Conde Balcom McCullough
- Occupations
- lawyeruniversity teachercivil engineerengineerarchitect
- Biography
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Conde Balcom McCullough was an American civil engineer who is primarily known for designing many of Oregon's coastal bridges on U.S. Route 101. The native of South Dakota worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation from 1919 to 1935 and 1937 until he died in 1946. McCullough also was a professor at Oregon State University.
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Harry Lane
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Harry Lane was an American politician in the state of Oregon. A physician by training, Lane served as the head of the Oregon State Insane Asylum before being forced out by political enemies. After a decade practicing medicine, the progressive Democrat won election as the mayor of Portland in 1905, gaining re-election in 1907. Lane's tenure in office was largely uneventful, although he did gain lasting recognition for having appointed the first female police officer in America in 1908 as well as for his vision that the city should host an annual Rose Festival.
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Laurie Monnes Anderson
- Occupations
- politiciannurse
- Biography
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Laurie Monnes Anderson is an American Democratic politician who most recently served in the Oregon Senate, representing District 25 in eastern Multnomah County, Oregon, including parts of the cities of Fairview, Gresham, Troutdale, and Wood Village. She previously served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives.
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John Haglelgam
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Richard Haglelgam is a Micronesian former politician who served as the second President of the Federated States of Micronesia.
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Chuck Bennett
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chuck Bennett is an American politician who formerly served as mayor of Salem, Oregon, and is a former state representative.
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Dan Rayfield
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Adam Rayfield is an American politician and attorney serving as the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives representing the 16th district, which includes Corvallis and Adair Village.
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Jeff Kruse
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jeff Kruse is a former Republican member of the Oregon Senate, representing the 1st District from 1996 until his resignation for sexual harassment in 2018.
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Douglas H. Bosco
- Occupations
- journalistlawyerpoliticianeditor
- Biography
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Douglas Harry Bosco is an American lawyer, politician, and newspaper owner from California. He is a former U.S. Representative, serving four terms as a Democrat from 1983 to 1991.
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Jennifer Williamson
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jennifer Williamson is an American attorney, Democratic politician, and political strategist who represented Oregon's 36th District in the Oregon House of Representatives. She served as Majority Leader from 2015 to 2019.
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Amanda Marshall
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Sally Amanda Marshall is an American lawyer in the U.S. state of Oregon. She was, most immediately, the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, the top federal prosecutor position in the state. She resigned her position on April 24, 2015, amid an internal review, citing unspecified health issues.
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Billy J. Williams
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Billy John Williams is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney for the District of Oregon from 2015 to 2021. He was most recently confirmed to the position by the U.S. Senate in March 2018. Williams was originally named Acting U.S. Attorney of the district in April 2015 and was appointed to the position by Chief U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman in February 2016. In November 2017, Williams was nominated by President Donald Trump to retain the position. His nomination was supported by Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, Oregon's U.S. Senators.
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Frank K. Wheaton
- Occupations
- lawyertelevision actortelevision produceractor
- Biography
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Frank Kahlil Wheaton is an American attorney, agent, and actor.
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Lesil McGuire
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lesil Lynn McGuire is an American politician in the state of Alaska. She served as a Republican member of the Alaska Senate from 2007 until 2017, after her tenure as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 2000 through 2006. She served Senate District N until redistricting in 2012 placed her in District K for 2013.
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Jason Atkinson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Bruce Botelho
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Bruce M. Botelho is an American attorney and politician in the U.S. state of Alaska. He served as the mayor of Juneau from 1988 to 1991 and from 2003 to 2012. Born and raised in Juneau, where his father was a top official of the Alaska Highway Patrol, Botelho has pursued concurrent careers in law and politics, largely with success. He also previously served a term as mayor from 1988 to 1991, defeating former Alaska Secretary of State Robert W. Ward in the election. He spent most of his professional career as an employee of the Alaska Department of Law. He rose to the top position in the department in 1994, when Governor Walter Hickel appointed him to be the Alaska Attorney General. Retained by Hickel's successor, Tony Knowles, Botelho served as Attorney General for nearly nine years before retiring from state service.
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Sandy Baruah
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Santanu K. "Sandy" Baruah is an American politician from the state of Oregon and is the president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Regional Chamber.
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Fern Hobbs
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Fern Hobbs was an American attorney in the U.S. state of Oregon, and Private Secretary to Oregon Governor Oswald West. She was noted for her ambition and several accomplishments as a young woman, and became the highest-paid woman in public service in America in her mid-twenties.
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Theodore Thurston Geer
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Governor of Oregon (the first born in the territory of the state), serving from January 9, 1899, to January 14, 1903. The Republican politician was in office when the legislature adopted the "Oregon System", Oregon's system of initiative and referendum. He also served in the Oregon House of Representatives, including time as its Speaker.
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Grace Crunican
- Enrolled in Willamette University
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Biography
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Grace Crunican is a mass transportation specialist who most recently served as general manager of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District. She had previously worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation, the Federal Transit Administration (under the Clinton administration), and the Seattle Department of Transportation, and also at the mass transit lobbying organization called the Surface Transportation Policy Project.
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David Gomberg
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Gomberg is a Democratic member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 10 on the state's central coast since January 14, 2013. He served in political staff and lobbying positions in Oregon prior to his election to the Legislature. He's the retired head of his own kite design and construction business.
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Bob Mionske
- Occupations
- sport cyclistlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Charles Mionske (born August 26, 1962) is a two-time U.S. Olympic racing cyclist (1988 and 1992) and U.S. National Champion (1990). In the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul, South Korea, he placed fourth in the Individual Road Race. He retired from professional cycling in 1993 and is now an attorney based in Portland, Oregon, with a practice in bicycle law. He wrote Legally Speaking, a national column on bicycle law, between 2002 and 2009, and has also written Bicycling & the Law: Your Rights as a Cyclist, a book on bicycle law published in August 2007. Mionske has written his Legally Speaking column on bicycle law for VeloNews and his Road Rights column on bicycle law for Bicycling Magazine. In February 2015, Mionske returned to writing his Legally Speaking column at VeloNews.
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Scotty Iseri
- Occupations
- artistvideo game developer
- Biography
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Scotty Iseri is an American web series and mobile application creator and director, as well as a freelance sound designer, producer, and theater artist. Iseri's web series, Scotty Got an Office Job brought him to national prominence in which he secretly filmed the goings-on in his office job in Chicago. "Using a Flip camera and his laptop’s webcam, Iseri manages to get an impressive range of footage while on the clock...the series’ very existence is one that proves perhaps there are some people who are meant to wear grown-up pants in an office, and there are some people who aren’t. And for the latter, Scotty is an inspiration."
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Patricia Price
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Patricia Price is managing director and co-founder of the global public relations and digital marketing firm 8VA Music Consultancy. Price was previously the executive director of Portland Piano International and the Classical Product Manager for Allegro Media Group managing classical record labels.
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Horace P. Belknap
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Horace Preston Belknap was an American pioneer medical doctor, businessman, and a state legislator from the state of Oregon. Belknap was one of the first physicians to establish a medical practice in Central Oregon. He also served three terms in the Oregon House of Representatives as a Republican legislator, representing a large and rural district in central and southern Oregon.
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Paul De Muniz
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Paul J. De Muniz is a retired American judge in the state of Oregon. He is the first Hispanic Chief Justice in the history of the Oregon Supreme Court. He was elected to the court in 2000, and elected as chief justice in 2006. He won re-election in May 2006 for another six-year term on the state's highest court. De Muniz previously served on the Oregon Court of Appeals for ten years.
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Chuck Thomsen
- Occupations
- politicianhorticulturist
- Biography
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Charles William Thomsen is an American Republican politician from the US state of Oregon. From 2011 to 2023 he served in the Oregon Senate representing District 26, which includes all of Hood River County and parts of eastern Multnomah County and northeastern Clackamas County.
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Rich Vial
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Armand Richard Vial is an American lawyer, farmer, small business owner, and Nonpartisan candidate for Oregon's State Senate District 18, which covers parts of Washington County, in the November 2022 midterm election. He previously served in the served in the Oregon House of Representatives in 2016 representing the 26th district. He has served in the state legislature as a Republican.
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James W. Mott
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James Wheaton Mott was a U.S. Representative from Oregon. A graduate of Columbia University and Willamette University's law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter, city attorney, and was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives.
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Stan Bunn
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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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.
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Teresa Miller
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Teresa Miller is the president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Health Foundation, and is also a member of the Kansas Governor’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice.
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Robert Freeman Smith
- Enrolled in Willamette University
- In 1953 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Freeman Smith, commonly known as Bob Smith, was an American Republican politician who represented Oregon in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and from 1997 to 1999.
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Nancy Ryles
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nancy Ann Ryles was an Oregon politician. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives, the Oregon Senate and as one of three members of the state's Public Utility Commission. She was known as an advocate for education and for equality for women and minorities. An elementary school in Beaverton is named after her.
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Greg Zerzan
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Greg Zerzan is an attorney and former acting assistant secretary of the U.S Treasury under President George W. Bush. He has held several prominent posts in government and is a frequent speaker on markets and public policy matters.
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Merrill Moores
- Occupations
- politicianwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Merrill Moores was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1915 to 1925.
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Larry Phillips
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lawrence R. Phillips is an American politician who served as a member of the King County Council in Washington state. Phillips served on the Council from 1992 to 2016, representing the fourth district, which includes the Seattle neighborhoods of Queen Anne, Magnolia, Ballard, Fremont, Belltown, South Lake Union, and Downtown. He served as Chair of the Council from 2004 to 2006 and again in 2014. He was unopposed in his 2011 re-election. Phillips also serves on the Board of Directors of Sound Transit, a regional transit organization serving the Puget Sound area. A hallmark of Phillips's tenure has been his work to preserve forests and farmland by buying land, development rights, or conservation easements. Phillips is a self-identified Democrat, although his position on the King County Council was officially nonpartisan. On April 1, 2015, Phillips announced he would not seek reelection to the King County Council that November.
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Robert M. Sayre
- Occupations
- military personneldiplomat
- Biography
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Robert Marion Sayre was a United States State Department official and ambassador to Brazil, Panama and Uruguay. A career foreign service officer specializing in Latin American affairs, Sayre served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay from 1968 to 1969, Ambassador to Panama from 1969 to 1974, and Ambassador to Brazil from 1978 to 1981. He also held the position of Inspector General of the U.S. State Department from 1974 to 1978.
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James Martin Fitzgerald
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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James Martin Fitzgerald was an American lawyer and judge. He served as an associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from 1972 to 1975, and resigned that position when he was appointed to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska.
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Andy Tillman
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Biography
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Andrew Charles Tillman is one of the founders of the llama industry in the United States. He is an expert on llama and alpaca health, selective breeding, and marketing. Tillman is the co-founder of the International Llama Association, and he wrote the halter-class guidelines for the American Llama Show Association. His book, Speechless Brothers, was the first comprehensive study of llama husbandry published in the United States.
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Gordon Faber
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gordon C. Faber was an American politician and businessman in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he grew up in Hillsboro, Oregon. He joined the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and was a small business owner before becoming a real estate agent and entering politics. He served on Hillsboro's budget committee and city council before serving two terms as mayor from 1993 to 2001. The Gordon Faber Recreation Complex in the city's northeast corner is named in his honor.
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John N. Williamson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Newton Williamson was an American rancher and politician in the state of Oregon. A native Oregonian, he served in both chambers of the Oregon Legislative Assembly representing central and eastern Oregon in the late 19th century. A Republican, he then served in Congress from 1903 to 1907 and was involved in the Oregon land fraud scandal.
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Carla Piluso
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carla Piluso is an American politician and former police officer. She was the first woman to serve as chief of the Gresham Police Department in Gresham, Oregon. In 2014, she won election as a Democrat to the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 50. Piluso served in the Gresham Police Department for 30 years, beginning in 1979. She is also on the school board for the Gresham-Barlow School District. She was an unsuccessful candidate for Multnomah County commissioner in 2008.
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Joseph K. Gill
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Joseph Kaye Gill was an American retailer and publisher in the state of Oregon. A native of England, he came to the United States with his parents and settled in Oregon where he managed a bookstore in Salem. Later he entered the business and became the owner of the now-defunct J. K. Gill Company that operated in the Pacific Northwest as a book and office supply store.
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Melvin Clark George
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianuniversity teacherjudge
- Biography
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Melvin Clark George (May 13, 1849 – February 22, 1933) was an American politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Oregon from 1881 to 1885.
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Thomas Hemingway
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Brigadier General Thomas Hemingway is an American military lawyer who has served as a legal advisor to the Office of Military Commissions. Thomas Hemingway was a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in November 1962 after earning his undergraduate degree at Willamette University. Upon graduation, he took an educational delay and earned his doctor of jurisprudence in 1965 at Willamette University College of Law. Hemingway entered active service in November 1965. He has also been an associate professor of law at the United States Air Force Academy and a senior judge on the Air Force Court of Military Review. He is a current member of the state bar in Oregon and the District of Columbia, and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States. He retired from active service in October 1996. General Hemingway was recalled to active service in August 2003 to fill the position as Legal Adviser to the Convening Authority in the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, Washington, D.C. General. He was replaced by Thomas W. Hartmann in July 2007.
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John B. Waldo
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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John Breckenridge Waldo was an American politician and jurist from the state of Oregon. A native of Oregon, he grew up near Salem as part of a prominent pioneer political family that included father Daniel and brother William. A trained lawyer, he was elected to the Oregon Supreme Court and served for one term from 1880 to 1886, including as the 13th Chief Justice from 1884 to 1886. He also served one term in the Oregon House of Representatives. Waldo spent many summers in the Cascade Range fostering an appreciation for the natural environment, which led to conservation efforts to preserve the range and later to the naming of several natural features after Waldo, notably Waldo Lake.
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Leon Rene Yankwich
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Leon Rene Yankwich was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
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L. B. Day
- Years
- 1932-1986 (aged 54)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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L. B. Day was an American labor union leader and elected official in the state of Oregon. Day served as an International Brotherhood of Teamsters official, state representative, state senator, and appointed official in both the Oregon state executive office and the U.S. Department of the Interior. A longtime supporter of the Oregon State Fair, the L. B. Day Comcast Amphitheatre on the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem is named in his honor.
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Albin W. Norblad
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Albin Walter Norblad III was an attorney in the U.S. state of Oregon, and a judge of the Oregon Circuit Court for the 3rd judicial district, in Marion County at Salem. He was named for his father, A. Walter Norblad, and grandfather, A. W. Norblad, both prominent Oregon attorneys and politicians.
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Bert E. Haney
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Bert Emory Haney was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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Richard Williams
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Richard Williams was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Ohio, he moved to Oregon in 1851 where he became an attorney. A Republican, he was the United States Congressman representing Oregon's at large congressional district for one term from 1877 to 1879.
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Charles A. Johns
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Charles A. Johns was an American lawyer, jurist and politician who served as the 47th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Johns also served as mayor of Baker City in Eastern Oregon and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines while that archipelago was under U.S. jurisdiction.
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Robert Eakin
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Robert Eakin was an American judge and attorney in the state of Oregon. He served as the 19th Chief Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court. Eakin was the head judge of the court from 1911 to 1913, and was on the court overall from 1907 until 1917.
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Charles S. Moore
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Charles Sumner Moore was an American businessman and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of the Pacific Northwest state, he held several elected offices in Klamath County in the southern part of the state, including county judge. A Republican, he served as Oregon State Treasurer from 1899 to 1907.
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John Hugh McNary
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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John Hugh McNary was an American attorney and jurist in the state of Oregon. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland. A native of Oregon, he also served as a district attorney and as an assistant district attorney in Salem. His brother Charles would serve as a United States senator.
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Isaac Homer Van Winkle
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Isaac Homer Van Winkle was an American attorney in the state of Oregon. A former dean of Willamette University's law school, he served as the 6th Attorney General of Oregon for 23 years.
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Charles B. Bellinger
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Charles Byron Bellinger was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland, Oregon. A native of Illinois, he also served as a state circuit court judge in Oregon, fought in the Modoc War in 1873, and was a newspaper editor. Politically, he previously served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and as clerk to the Oregon Supreme Court.
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Wallace P. Carson, Jr
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Wallace Preston Carson Jr. is an American attorney and politician from Oregon. He has spent time in both of Oregon's legislative branches and served on the Oregon Supreme Court for 24 years. Carson's fourteen-year tenure as chief justice was longer than that of any of his predecessors.
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Charles B. Moores
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- politician
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Charles Bruce Moores was an American businessman and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Missouri, he came from a family of politicians including his father John H. Moores, his grandfather Isaac R. Moores, and uncle Isaac R. Moores, Jr. who all served in the Oregon Legislature. A Republican, he served as the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives during his sole term in the House in 1895.
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John McCourt
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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John McCourt was an American attorney and jurist in the state of Oregon. He served as the 51st justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Prior to joining the court, McCourt had worked as United States District Attorney for the District of Oregon. A native of Canada, he was also a state court judge and member of the Oregon House of Representatives.
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Berkeley Lent
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Berkeley "Bud" Lent was an American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon. He was the 38th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving from 1982 to 1983. Elected to the court in 1976, Lent remained until 1988. Previously, the native Oregonian also was elected to both branches of the Oregon legislature, including time as the Senate Majority Leader, and was a county circuit court judge. Lent also served as a mediator and senior judge in Oregon.
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Winlock W. Steiwer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Winlock W. Steiwer was an American banker, rancher, and politician in the state of Oregon. Born in the Willamette Valley, he made his name in Eastern Oregon as the founder of a bank and as county judge. A Republican, he twice served in the Oregon State Senate. He pleaded guilty in the Oregon land fraud scandal of the early 1900s.
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Daniel Jones
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- minister
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Daniel Jones was a Methodist Episcopal minister (M.E.) in Oregon and other regions of the United States. He was the first African American to attend Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He was a leader in the M.E. church and was presiding elder of the Lexington, Kentucky, district.
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Benjamin Hale Settle
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- judgelawyer
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Benjamin Hale Settle is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
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Winifred Byrd
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- pianistmusic teacher
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Winifred Byrd was an American concert pianist and educator.
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Loyal B. Stearns
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Loyal B. Stearns was an American politician, attorney, and jurist in Oregon. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Oregon, he became a lawyer and practiced in Portland. A Republican, he was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and later a judge for several courts.
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E. M. Page
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Everil Max "E.M." Page was an American lawyer and judge in the state of Oregon. He was appointed as the 63rd justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving for less than a year between 1949 and 1950.
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Parish L. Willis
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- politicianlawyerlibrarian
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Parish Lovejoy Willis was an American attorney and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he served as cavalry in the Rogue River War before becoming a lawyer. A Republican, he served one term in the Oregon State Senate in the early 1890s.
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Sylvester C. Simpson
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- politicianlawyer
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Sylvester Confucius Simpson was an American educator and attorney in the state of Oregon. A native of Missouri, he served as the first Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction and was later the secretary to Oregon Governor Stephen F. Chadwick before moving to California. A Democrat, he also served as the chief clerk in the Oregon State Senate.
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Walter C. Winslow
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Walter Clarence Winslow was an American attorney in Oregon. A native of the state, he practiced law in Salem and later served temporarily on the Oregon Supreme Court. In legal practice he worked for brothers John Hugh McNary and Charles L. McNary in his early years as a lawyer.
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John W. Reynolds
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- lawyer
- Biography
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John W. Reynolds was an American attorney and educator in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of the state, he was the fourth dean of the Willamette University College of Law, the law school of his alma mater.
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Samuel T. Richardson
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Samuel Thurston Richardson was an American attorney and educator in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he was the third dean of the Willamette University College of Law, his alma mater. He also founded the Oregon Law School (not the University of Oregon School of Law) that existed from 1902 until 1922.
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Levi L. Rowland
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Levi Lindsey Rowland FRSE was an American educator and physician in the state of Oregon. A native of Tennessee, he served as the Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction, president of what became Western Oregon University, and as the superintendent of Oregon's insane asylum, now the Oregon State Hospital. The Republican was also a pastor and farmer.
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John F. Steelhammer
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- politician
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John F. Steelhammer was an American politician in the state of Oregon. Born in Woodburn, Oregon, the son of the community's longtime mayor. He attended Oregon Normal College (now Western Oregon University) in Monmouth, and was a teacher in Boardman, Oregon for two years. Receiving an LL.B from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, Steelhammer began practicing law. Later he was a lobbyist for the banking industry. In 1938 Steelhammer ran successfully for Oregon House of Representatives as a Republican from Marion County. He was seriously injured in an accident during his first term, causing him to resign his seat. However, he was again elected to the House in 1940, 1942, 1944, 1948, and 1950. Steelhammer enlisted in the U.S. Army after the 1943 session and was discharged as a sergeant 16 months later. Although not present during the 1944 reelection campaign, he received the largest vote of Marion County's four representatives. Steelhammer was named to the Speakership in 1951 under the guidance of veteran kingmaker "Uncle" Earl Hill. Unlike many speakers who adopted the role of moderator, Steelhammer used the position to advocate policies. His bustling and enthusiasm won him much admiration amongst his colleagues. Steelhammer continued his law practice after retirement from politics, he married Dorothy Vandeneynde in 1946, and the couple had three children, Jann, Joan, and John III. Steelhammer died on May 3, 1974, at the age of 65.
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M. Ella Whipple
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- 1851-1924 (aged 73)
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- physician
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M. Ella Whipple was an American physician.
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Hallie Parrish Hinges
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- 1868-1950 (aged 82)
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- singer
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Hallie Parrish Hinges was an American singer nicknamed "The Oregon Nightingale". She performed for many notable people, including presidents Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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George M. Brown
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- judgelawyer
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George M. Brown was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. He was the 50th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and the 5th attorney general of the state from 1915 to 1920. An Oregon born and educated attorney, he previously worked as a district attorney in Southern Oregon.
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Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle
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- physicianwriter
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Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle was an American medical doctor who worked primarily in Oregon. She was also a proponent of women's rights.
