Robert N. Stanfield

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Robert N. Stanfield

Robert Nelson Stanfield (born July 9, 1877 in Umatilla , Umatilla County , Oregon , †  April 13, 1945 in Weiser , Idaho ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Oregon in the US Senate .

Originally from East Oregon, Robert Stanfield attended public schools in his homeland and then the state normal school in Weston . After he had finished his training, he began to work in livestock ; he also went into banking in the towns of Echo and Baker . As a rancher , he initially focused on cattle , but gradually switched to sheep . According to an estimate made during World War I , his herd comprised around 350,000 animals, making him the largest sheep farmer in the world.

Stanfield's political career began in 1912 with the election to the Oregon House of Representatives , where he represented the 22nd district of the state; this included Morrow County and Umatilla County. He remained in this Chamber of Parliament until 1917; in his last year in office he acted as their speaker . In 1918 he first applied for the Republican nomination to the US Senate, but was defeated by Charles L. McNary . Two years later, Stanfield ran for the second seat in the Senate of Oregon and was successful, whereupon he took up his mandate in Washington, DC from March 4, 1921. He spent a six-year term there, during which time he was, among other things, chairman of the committee for the control of the public service.

During his time in the Senate, Stanfield campaigned primarily for the states in the western United States. He later described the creation of the Owyhee Dam in eastern Oregon and the establishment of irrigation systems in Malheur County as one of the first projects for the fertility of wasteland as his greatest success . He caused a stir when he was arrested during Prohibition for fighting while drunk in a bar in Baker. When he applied for the re-nomination of his party in 1926, he met the resistance of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Ku Klux Klan ; he lost the primary to Frederick Steiwer . Although he succeeded in running as an independent, he was defeated again by Steiwer in the actual election. Stanfield then returned to Oregon, where he continued his business obligations until his death in 1945.

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SURNAME Stanfield, Robert N.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stanfield, Robert Nelson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Umatilla , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1945
Place of death Wise , Idaho