La Fayette Grover

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La Fayette Grover

La Fayette Grover (born November 29, 1823 in Bethel , Oxford County , Maine , †  May 10, 1911 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American politician and from 1870 to 1877 the fourth governor of the state of Oregon.

Early years and political advancement

La Fayette Grover attended Goulds Academy in Bethel and then until 1846 Bowdoin College in Brunswick . After a subsequent law degree in Philadelphia , he was admitted to the bar in 1850. In 1851 he came to Salem in the Oregon Territory via San Francisco , where he began to work as a lawyer. Between 1853 and 1854, he took on a temporary Indian War ( Rogue River Indian War in part).

In Oregon, he became a District Attorney in the Second District Court. Between 1853 and 1855 he was also a member of the territorial parliament of Oregon and was entrusted with an investigation to determine the costs of the aforementioned Indian War. In 1857 Grover was a member of the Oregon Constituent Assembly. Between February and March 1859 he briefly sat in the US House of Representatives in Washington. Then he returned to his legal practice. In 1870 he was elected as the candidate of his Democratic Party for the new governor of his state, where he prevailed with 51.4 percent of the vote against the Republican Joel Palmer.

Governor of Oregon

La Fayette Grover took up his new post on September 14, 1870. During his tenure, he was a staunch opponent of the Chinese immigrants in Oregon. He campaigned for the repeal of an 1868 law that encouraged immigration from China. Grover campaigned for the Willamette River to become a waterway. This has significantly reduced the cost of transporting agricultural products in the region. Other events during his tenure were the preparations for the establishment of a state university and an agricultural school and the construction of a penal institution. The Capitol in Salem was also completed at that time .

In 1874, Grover was sustained in office by the voters of Oregon. In connection with the controversial presidential election of 1876 , Oregon also played a role. Governor Grover voted one of the electoral votes for the Democrats. This resulted in a tie between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden . An electoral committee then reversed the governor's decision and Hayes was eventually elected president. Grover ended his second four-year term prematurely with his resignation on February 1, 1877, because he had since been elected to the US Senate .

Another résumé

Between 1877 and 1883 Grover represented his state in the US Senate. There he also campaigned against the immigration of Chinese into the USA. After his time in Congress ended, he returned to practice as a lawyer. Politically, he no longer appeared. La Fayette Grover died in 1911. He was married to Elizabeth Carter, with whom he had one child.

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SURNAME Grover, La Fayette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Bethel , Maine
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1911
Place of death Portland , Oregon