Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/People

Wikipedia:WPOR-Nav The Oregon People Subproject covers the people who are/were from, lived in or were influential on the history of the State of Oregon. Please feel free to modify this page as needed. This is a part of the WikiProject Oregon.

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• Katr67 17:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
• Sprkee 17:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC) I'll keep working on political type people
• -Pete 23:12, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

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Sources

• Corning, Howard M. Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956, for important people pre-1950.
• History of Portland on Google books so you can search; or download it in PDF (free!) here.Scott, Harvey (1890). History of Portland Oregon. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse.
  • The PDF is a good option if you want to print it out (or part of it - it's over 600 pages) - but it doesn't allow you to search text; the Google page is better in that respect. (When searching text, note that the book contains some misspellings.)
  • This book has also been republished on the web by Access Genealogy, which is an easy way to search it: http://www.accessgenealogy.com/portland-oregon.htm

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Priorities

Template:WikiProject Oregon collapsing section top Examples of pretty good articles:

• Vicki Walker - a decent article about a prominent state legislator
• Gordon Smith - covers numerous aspects of this Senator's career

Need expanding:

• Neil Goldschmidt: very spotty on his earlier career. See Talk:Neil Goldschmidt for a to-do list of sorts.
• Ira L. Babcock
• William J. Bailey
• List of Governors of Oregon
• François Norbert Blanchet: see what links to him for more info
• Nathaniel Ford
• William H. Gray (Oregon politician)
• Osborne Russell, helped build Fort Hall in Idaho, fur trader, later candidate for Provisional Governor. 2nd Executive Committee. Supreme judge
• William Holden Willson: Salem founder, Champoeg participant, namesake for Willson Park.Willson

Need to be started:

• William H. Rector: Champoeg settler, 1847 state legislator, part of the first Joel Palmer expedition, cofounder of the Salem woolen mill, 1861 Commissioner of Indian Affairs, railway entrenprenuer. [1]
• Colonel James Taylor: Astoria settler, assistant commissary to General Joel Palmer, first territorial treasurer. [2]
• Elijah White: I assumed there was already one for him. Led wagon trains over the trail, "Indian" sub agent, seemed to have a power complex from what I've read researching other people/events/places. Methodist missionary that didn't get along with Jason Lee.
• Felix Hathaway: Helped build the Star of Oregon, liberty ship named after him too. Could even link to Joe Gale.
• Alvin T. Smith, early Forest Grove settler, helped start Tualatin Academy, early postmaster, prov. government.[3]

Need copy editing:

• Henry H. Spalding
• John H. Mitchell
• Joseph Meek
• Abel Helman, pioneer of Ashland, his long, yet content-free, and archaically worded hagiography needs cleanup

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Template:WikiProject Oregon collapsing section top Governors (see List of Governors of Oregon):

To expand:

• Senators (see List of United States Senators from Oregon):
• U.S. Representatives (see List of United States Representatives from Oregon):

To expand:

• Robert Freeman Smith
• John N. Williamson

Need copy editing:

• George Augustus La Dow
• La Fayette Lane
• Melvin Clark George
• William R. Ellis
• Walter Lafferty
• Robert R. Butler
• Franklin F. Korell
• James W. Mott
• William A. Ekwall

State senators and representatives:

To create:

• Margaret Carter, current senator and first African American woman elected to the Legislative Assembly (1984) - this citation, from the Jackie Winters article, will help.
• Avel Gordly, current senator and first African American woman elected to the Oregon Senate (1996). Currently the only Independent in the OLA; 2006 recipient of Portland Mayor's Spirit of Portland Award (selected by Mayor Potter)[4]
• William McCoy (Oregon politician), first African American elected to the Oregon House (1972)
• Thomas A. Livesley, Oregon's "Hop King", built Salem's only skyscraper, Capitol Tower, and the what is now the governor's mansion, served in the state legislature 1937-1939 [5]
• Peter Courtney, current Senate President

To expand:

• Ted Ferrioli, current Senate Minority Leader
• Grattan Kerans, pretty slim article for former speaker with 20 years in the legislature
• Kate Brown (politician)

Other politicians

To create:

• Molly Bordonaro - opposed David Wu in 1998, ran George W. Bush's Oregon campaign, appointed ambassador to Malta. Rising Republican star, will likely become prominent in Oregon politics after Bush's term ends in 2008.

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• Schnitzer family, Oregon's Rockefellers, namesake for the company, theater, and museum [6]
• Thomas Leigh Gatch, (son of Thomas Milton Gatch) served as JAG of the Navy 1943-1945.

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Templates

What to type or copy	What it makes	Instructions and Notes
{{Infobox Politician | name = | image = | width = | height = | caption = | small_image = | office = | term_start = | term_end = | predecessor = | successor = | constituency = | majority = | office2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | constituency2 = | majority2 = | office3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | constituency3 = | majority3 = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = | relations = | spouse = | civil partner = | children = | residence = | occupation = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}	Subject Name	For politicians that may not have an existing template such as exist for U.S. Congress people. Anything left blank will not show up in the article.
{{Infobox Judge | name = | image = | imagesize = | caption = | office = | termstart = | termend = | nominator = | appointer = | predecessor = | successor = | office2 = | termstart2 = | termend2 = | nominator2 = | appointer2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | birthdate = | birthplace = | deathdate = | deathplace = | spouse = | profession = | religion = | signature = }}	Subject Name	For Justices of the Oregon Supreme Court. Under office put #th Associate Justice (or Chief Justice) of the Oregon Supreme Court. Parts with2 are for those who were chief justice to put their time as associate justice. Appointed is only if appointed to the court instead of elected, name of appointer (not year or yes).
{{Infobox Person | name = | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = | title = | salary = | networth = | height = | weight = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}	Subject Name	Use if nothing else exists. Most fields optional, so remove or leave blank fields that are N/A.

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