Oregon House Joint Memorial Number 9

Oregon State House representatives Vernon D. Bull (Democrat-La Grande), Warren Erwin (Democrat-Portland), and Rose M. Poole (Republican-Klamath) issued this joint memorial Feb. 28th, 1945. The memorial represents an unsuccessful effort to prevent Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans from returning to the state after being held in internment camps during World War II. At the time this memorial was submitted, the war between the United States and Japan had not yet ended and anti-Japanese sentiment was high in Oregon and the nation.