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The '''Oregon People Subproject''' covers the people who are/were from, lived in or were influential on the history of the State of Oregon. Please feel free to modify this page as needed. This is a part of the [[WP:WPOR|WikiProject Oregon]].

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*[[User:Katr67|Katr67]] 17:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Sprkee|Sprkee]] 17:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC) I'll keep working on political type people
* -[[User:Peteforsyth|Pete]] 23:12, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
* [[User:Terrickisaiah555|Terrickisaiah555]] <sup>[[User talk:Terrickisaiah555|[T]]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Terrickisaiah555|[C]]]</sub> [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|25px|]] 20:37, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
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== Sources ==
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* Corning, Howard M. ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956, for important people pre-1950.
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=UsKKpvOVRRUC&pg=PA15&dq=history+of+portland+oregon History of Portland] on Google books so you can search; or download it in PDF (free!) [http://books.google.com/books/pdf/History_of_Portland__Oregon__with_Illust.pdf?id=UsKKpvOVRRUC&output=pdf&sig=xtSdO8Dylx4Xhr_yB9CiM_hHiV8 here].{{cite book
|last=Scott
|first=Harvey
|authorlink=Harvey W. Scott
|title=History of Portland Oregon
|publisher=D. Mason & Co., Syracuse
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UsKKpvOVRRUC&printsec=titlepage
|date=1890}}
** The PDF is a good option if you want to print it out (or part of it - it's over 600 pages) - but it doesn't allow you to search text; the Google page is better in that respect. (When searching text, note that the book contains some misspellings.)
** This book has also been republished on the web by Access Genealogy, which is an easy way to search it: http://www.accessgenealogy.com/portland-oregon.htm
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|last=Chapman Publishing Company
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=G_g0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA195&lpg=PA196 
|title=Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley, Oregon: Containing Original Sketches of Many Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present
|date=1903}}
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== Priorities ==
Examples of pretty good articles:
* [[Vicki Walker]] - a decent article about a prominent state legislator
* [[Gordon H. Smith]] - covers numerous aspects of this Senator's career

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'''To create''':
* [[Andre Longtain]] - owned land where Champoeg vote held, came to Oregon in 1811 to help found Ft. Astoria.[http://www.peak.org/~mransom/longtain.html]
* [[William H. Rector]]:  Champoeg settler, 1847 state legislator, part of the first [[Joel Palmer]] expedition, cofounder of the Salem woolen mill, 1861 Commissioner of Indian Affairs, railway entrepreneur. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lhbtn&fileName=th030//lhbtnth030.db&recNum=140&itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Flhbtnbib%3A%40field%28NUMBER%2B%40od1%28lhbtn%2Bth030_0021%29%29&linkText=0]
* [[Colonel James Taylor]]:  Astoria settler, assistant commissary to General Joel Palmer, first territorial treasurer. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lhbtn&fileName=th030//lhbtnth030.db&recNum=152&itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Flhbtnbib%3A%40field%28NUMBER%2B%40od1%28lhbtn%2Bth030_0021%29%29&linkText=0]

'''To expand''':
* [[Ira L. Babcock]]
* [[William J. Bailey]]
* [[François Norbert Blanchet]]: see what links to him for more info
* [[Nathaniel Ford]]
* [[William H. Gray (Oregon politician)|William H. Gray]]
* [[Osborne Russell]], helped build Fort Hall in Idaho, fur trader, later candidate for Provisional Governor. 2nd Executive Committee. [https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Documents/elections/history-officials.pdf Oregon Early Authorities - Supreme Court Justices page 6]
* [[William H. Willson]]: Salem founder, Champoeg participant, namesake for Willson Park.[http://www.salemhistory.net/people/william_willson.htm Willson]

'''To copy edit''':
* [[Abel Helman]], pioneer of Ashland, his long, yet content-free, and archaically worded hagiography needs cleanup
* [[Joseph Meek]]
* [[John H. Mitchell]]
* [[Henry H. Spalding]]
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'''Governors''' (see [[List of Governors of Oregon]]):

''To expand'':
*[[Neil Goldschmidt]]: very spotty on his earlier career. See [[Talk:Neil Goldschmidt]] for a to-do list of sorts.

'''Senators''' (see [[List of United States Senators from Oregon]]):<br>
'''U.S. Representatives''' (see [[List of United States Representatives from Oregon]]):

''To expand'':
*[[Robert Freeman Smith]]
*[[John N. Williamson]]

''To copy edit'':
*[[Robert R. Butler]]
*[[William A. Ekwall]]
*[[Melvin Clark George]]
*[[Franklin F. Korell]]
*[[Walter Lafferty]]

'''State senators and representatives''':

''To create'':
*[[William McCoy (Oregon politician)|William McCoy]], first African American elected to the Oregon House (1972)

''To expand'':
*[[Kate Brown (politician)|Kate Brown]]
*[[Margaret Carter]], current senator and first African American woman elected to the Legislative Assembly (1984) - this citation, from the [[Jackie Winters]] article, will help.<ref>{{cite news | last = Kenning | first = Chris | title = She is the first African-American Republican to serve | work = Statesman-Journal | pages = 1A | publisher = Salem, Oregon: Gannett | date = 1999-01-11 | url = http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:SSJB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0FD3DA701AA001D5&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&req_dat=8CE642B8CA5C4083BE84A2539D6E1A73 | accessdate=2006-12-28}}</ref>
*[[Ted Ferrioli]], current Senate Minority Leader
*[[Avel Gordly]], current senator and first African American woman elected to the Oregon Senate (1996). Currently the only Independent in the OLA; 2006 recipient of Portland Mayor's Spirit of Portland Award (selected by Mayor Potter)[http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/index.cfm?c=36625&a=142601]
*[[Grattan Kerans]], pretty slim article for former speaker with 20 years in the legislature

'''Other politicians'''

''To create'':
*[[Molly Bordonaro]] - opposed [[David Wu]] in 1998, ran [[George W. Bush]]'s Oregon campaign, appointed ambassador to [[Malta]].
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*[[Schnitzer family]], Oregon's Rockefellers, namesake for the company, theater, and museum [http://blog.oregonlive.com/visualarts/2007/03/a_chat_with_jordan_schnitzer.html]. We have [[Arlene Schnitzer]], [[Harold Schnitzer]], and [[Schnitzer Steel Industries]], but not [[Jordan Schnitzer]]. 
*[[Ross T. McIntire]], Roosevelt doctor, vice admiral, born in Salem (WU grad), NYT article 11/30/1938
*[[Bethenia Owens-Adair|Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair]], doctor [http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080801/NEWS/808010330] [http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/bethenia_owens_adair_1840_1926/] [http://ddfa.org/BOwensMD.htm] and in Dictionary of Oregon History (p. 187).
* [[George Putnam]], Medford journalist, https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/putnam_george_1872_1961_/
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