John M. Gearin

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John M. Gearin

John McDermeid Gearin (born August 15, 1851 in Pendleton , Oregon , †  November 12, 1930 in Portland , Oregon) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Oregon in the US Senate .

John Gearin, the son of Irish immigrant parents, first attended public schools in his homeland and then from 1863 to 1867 Saint Mary's College in San Francisco . In 1871 he graduated from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana as a Bachelor of Laws ; two years later, after completing legal training, he was inducted into the Oregon Bar and began practicing in Portland. He had three children with his wife Matilda, whom he married in 1878.

Gearin began his political career in 1874 as a non-party candidate for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives . He was victorious and spent a year in the state parliament. In 1875 he served as a litigator for the City of Portland; from 1884 to 1886 he was District Attorney for Multnomah County . A candidacy for the United States House of Representatives failed in 1878. In the meantime Gearin had joined the Democrats.

In 1893, US President Grover Cleveland appointed John Gearin as special government investigator with responsibility for opium fraud cases. Eventually he was appointed by Oregon's Governor George Earle Chamberlain to succeed the late US Senator John H. Mitchell . He performed this mandate between December 13, 1905 and January 23, 1907; in the by-election, which Frederick W. Mulkey won , he did not run. Gearin returned to the Portland Bar after serving in the Senate, where he died in 1930.

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  • John M. Gearin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Gearin, John M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gearin, John McDermeid (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH near Pendleton , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1930
Place of death Portland , Oregon