Robert B. Duncan

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Robert B. Duncan in the 1960s

Robert Blackford Duncan (born December 4, 1920 in Normal , Illinois , † April 29, 2011 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American politician . Between 1963 and 1967 he represented the fourth and from 1975 to 1981 the third constituency of the state of Oregon in the US House of Representatives .

Early Years and Rise in Oregon

Robert Duncan grew up in Bloomington where he attended public schools. He then studied at the University of Alaska , Illinois Wesleyan University and the University of California . He eventually graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1948 with a law degree . His studies were interrupted by his time in the merchant navy and then during the Second World War. During this war he served in a US Navy flight unit . He later remained a member of the Navy Reserve.

Before he was admitted to the bar in 1948, Robert Duncan worked in various professions in Alaska and Illinois. Among other things, he was employed by a bank in Chicago . After his admission to the bar, he moved to Oregon where he worked in a group practice. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1956 and 1962 he was an MP in the Oregon House of Representatives . From 1959 he acted as speaker of this parliamentary chamber.

Congressman

In 1962 he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he succeeded Edwin Russell Durno on January 3, 1963 . After a re-election in 1964, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1967 . Duncan was a supporter of President Lyndon B. Johnson and a supporter of the Vietnam War . In 1966, he did not apply for re-election to the House of Representatives, but for a seat in the US Senate . But he was defeated by Governor Mark Hatfield , whereby his now unpopular views on the Vietnam War played a role. Also in 1968 and 1972 he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate. In the meantime he worked as a lawyer again. In the 1974 congressional elections, he ran successfully in the third constituency for his return to the House of Representatives. There he took over the seat of Edith Green on January 3, 1975 . After two re-elections, Duncan was able to exercise his mandate until January 3, 1981. In the primaries of 1980 he was defeated within his party Ron Wyden , who was then elected as his successor.

Another résumé

Between 1984 and 1988 Robert Duncan was a member and since 1987 chairman of the Northwest Power Planning Council . After that, he retired. Robert Duncan was married to Marijane Beverly Dill, who died in 1990, since 1942; the couple had seven children. Robert Duncan last lived in Portland.

Web links

  • Robert B. Duncan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Washington Post: Robert Duncan, former Oregon lawmaker, dies at 90