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George Putnam Riley (1833–1905)
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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George Simpson (1786?-1860)
The highest-ranking officer of the Hudson's Bay Company in North America, Sir George Simpson, was a talented administrative martinet who was indefatigable, ambitious, and revenue-driven. …
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George Vancouver (1757-1798)
The role George Vancouver played in Oregon history is tangential, yet it is foundational to the developments that radically changed the region during the early …
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George W. Aguilar, Sr. (1930-)
George W. Aguilar, Sr., is a Wasco Elder and life-long resident of the Warm Springs Reservation who won the 2006 Oregon Book Award for Creative …
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George W. Peavy (1869-1951)
George Wilcox Peavy was dean of the School of Forestry at Oregon State College (now Oregon State University) and later served as OSC president …
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George Washington Bush (c. 1790-1863)
George Washington Bush was born c. 1790, the son of an African American servant and an Irish maid. While many pioneers earned reputations as rugged …
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Georgia Mason (1910-2007)
Georgia Mason was unique among twentieth-century Oregon botanists in that she did not arrive in the Northwest nor begin her serious study of botany in …
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Georgiana Burton Pittock (1845–1918)
Georgiana Burton Pittock was the founder of the Portland Rose Society and a founder of Portland’s Rose Festival. As a philanthropist, reformer, and society …
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Gerald Wendel “Gerry” Frank (1923–2022)
In 2000, Governor John Kitzhaber named Gerry W. Frank Oregon’s Premier Citizen, reflecting his decades of civic commitment to the State of Oregon. A longtime …
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Gertrude Bass Warner (1863-1951)
Gertrude Bass Warner was a world traveler, art collector, museum specialist, and scholar of Shinto rituals who established the University of Oregon Museum of Art—the …
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