In a long career of public service, Eugene Debs Potts was a mayor, state senator and senate president, and acting governor. He was also the …

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The town of Fort Rock is an unincorporated community in northern Lake County built atop a wide sagebrush-covered, ice-age lakebed. The first homestead in Fort …

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Frederic Homer Balch was the first Pacific Northwest fiction writer to cast Native Americans as major characters and the first to celebrate the region's geography …

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Largely because of his reputation as a scrupulously honest attorney general, Democrat George Earle Chamberlain was elected Oregon governor in 1902 with a slim majority …

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A significant figure in the years before Oregon became a state, George Law Curry served in the legislature of the Provisional Government and as governor …

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Identified by the Oregonian as the “Fred[erick] Douglass of Oregon,” George P. Riley was a passionate advocate for equal rights and a leading figure in …

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Hazel Ying Lee, who was born and educated in Oregon, was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military, one of two …

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Prominent early Portland businessman and politician Henry Failing was born in New York City on January 17, 1834, to parents Josiah and Henrietta Failing. Attending …

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  The story of the Houston Opera House begins with the arrival of John V. Houston and his family from Colorado in 1894 and ends twenty-six …

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Hugh Daniel Burns was an early immigrant to the Oregon Country who was involved in the politics of the region for many years, including as …

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