User:Halvorsen brian/Henry E. McGinn

1878 to 1899

 * November 25, 1876: McGinn was on the debate team at Oregon
 * November 30, 1878: Following his graduation from the University of Oregon McGinn studied law under Ellis G. Hughes.
 * March 10, 1881: McGinn passed the state bar in 1881.
 * March 04, 1882: McGinn gave a speach at the St. Patrick's Day parade in Portland, Oregon.
 * April 02, 1886: McGinn was a Native Son of Oregon
 * May 01, 1886: McGinn was nominated for the Republican candidate for Multnomah County Procecuting Attorney.
 * July 16, 1886: McGinn was nominated for district attorney
 * February 23, 1887: McGinn's wife died
 * March 18, 1887: McGinn prosecuted a man for manslaughter
 * January 12, 1888: McGinn is accused of not doing his job properly
 * April 12, 1888: McGinn nominated for DA
 * June 20, 1888: McGinn plead guilty to assult and battery against Rev. Ezra Haskell.
 * June 22, 1888: McGinn was accused of bribing voters by Rev. Ezra Haskell
 * September 15, 1888: McGinn was called "corrupt" by the East Oregonian of Pendleton, Oregon.
 * October 12, 1888: McGinn's brother Gilbert was a blind lawyer

1890-1900

 * May 31, 1890: McGinn got into a fight with the chair of the Multnomah County Republican Party.
 * July 16, 1892: McGinn ran into Sandy Olds at a turkish bath. McGinn was the prosecuting attorney against Olds for manslaughter.
 * April 03, 1892: McGinn nominated for state senate
 * August 05, 1892: McGinn wins election for State Senator
 * November 25, 1892: McGinn's client was sentenced to death
 * January 13, 1893: McGinn's commitee appointment
 * January 13, 1893: McGinn's legislation allowed for the City of Portland to build two free bridges.
 * January 27, 1893: McGinn in the senate
 * February 10, 1893: McGinn introduced a bill to regulate rates of phone companies
 * February 17, 1893: McGinn judged a literary contest at the Oregon Agricultural College.
 * January 20, 1893: McGinn in the senate
 * February 17, 1893: Two of McGinn's bills passed
 * January 17, 1895: McGinn's committees
 * January 18, 1895: McGinn's bills
 * February 22, 1895: McGinn on the death of his brother Gilbert
 * February 1895: McGinn was excused from the rest of the legislative session
 * February 28, 1895: McGinn was called a "weasel" by The Argus.
 * February 28, 1895: McGinn was called "Oregon's greatest orator" by The Corvallis gazette
 * February 27, 1895: McGinn slapped Sheriff George C. Sears in the face after he called McGinn a "sneak". Sears hit McGinn over his head with his revolver before bystanders broke up the fracas.
 * March 05, 1895: Sherrif Speas on his fight with McGinn.
 * March 08, 1895: The States Rights Democrat on the McGinn-Spears fight
 * January 14, 1895: McGinn proposed opening the morning session of the state legislature with a prayer.
 * September 13, 1895: The Capital Journal opposed McGinn's judicial appointment
 * September 19, 1895: The Plaindealer on McGinn's appointment
 * September 19, 1895: McGinn's judicial appointment was deplored by The Corvallis gazette.
 * September 20, 1895: The States Rights Democrat on McGinn's appointment
 * September 20, 1895: McGinn's appointment
 * September 20, 1895: McGinn's hiring of female clerks is mocked by the Journal.
 * September 24, 1895: McGinn called "drunken" by the Roseberg Review
 * January 25, 1895: McGinn on Lane County
 * December 27, 1895: McGinn filled in for Judge McBride in Astoria
 * January 03, 1896: McGinn switched benches with a St. Helens judge
 * January 10, 1896: McGinn's cases in St. Helens
 * March 20, 1896: McGinn served as judge in Hillsboro during the sickness of Judge McBride
 * October 15, 1897: McGinn represented the heirs on the Kearney estate
 * March 03, 1899: McGinn represented a client accused of election fraud

1901-1903

 * March 21, 1902: McGinn nominated for State Senator
 * January 19, 1903: McGinn's bill to allow the legeslators to employ a clerk was introduced in the senate
 * January 23, 1903: During the 1903 Oregon legislative session McGinn was assigned to the judiciary and municipal corporation committees.
 * January 26, 1903: McGinn voted for the appropriation of funds for the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition
 * February 05, 1903: McGinn introduced a bill to raise the age minors could be sent to State Reform School from 16 to 18
 * March 06, 1903: McGinn's bills

1904

 * May 13, 1904: McGinn retires from the Oregon State Senate
 * September 23, 1904: McGinn prosecuting a police bribery case.
 * October 18, 1904: McGinn represented female department store employees to recoup withheld wages.
 * November 02, 1904: McGinn defended the sherrif against charges from the District Attorney
 * November 08, 1904: McGinn on gambling
 * November 12, 1904: McGinn defended the Multnomah County sheriff who closed a poolhouse for gambling
 * November 13, 1904:
 * November 15, 1904:
 * November 18, 1904: McGinn gets into an argument with a lawyer in court
 * November 19, 1904: McGinn wins the gambling case
 * November 22, 1904: McGinn and District Attourney Manning got into an arguement after McGinn went to ask a question and Manning, who was the lead prosecutor, denied McGinn's request.
 * November 27, 1904: McGinn wants to prosecute an alleged gambler
 * November 29, 1904: District Attorney Manning claims that McGinn is overstepping his role as assistant prosecutor.
 * December 08, 1904: McGinn barred from helping the prosecution
 * December 09, 1904:
 * December 10, 1904:
 * December 13, 1904: McGinn on gambling

1905

 * January 09, 1905: McGinn went to Southern California
 * January 13, 1905: Sheriff Word and McGinn
 * February 26, 1905: McGinn on Dr. William Osler
 * April 17, 1905: McGinn got into an altercation with the defense lawyer in court
 * May 10, 1905: McGinn represented alleged attempted murderer Leon G. Vial
 * May 18, 1905: The Plaindealer on McGinn's appointment
 * May 26, 1905: McGinn defended the Oregon Daily Journal against a libel suit
 * August 05, 1905: A warant for McGinn's arrest was issued in relation to Governor Chamberlain's alleged tax fraud
 * November 12, 1905: McGinn donated to the fund for Jewish Russians during the the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire
 * December 06, 1905: McGinn defended a man charged with murder

1906

 * January 6, 1906: McGinn gets two building permits
 * January 10, 1906: McGinn thinks about moving to San Diego
 * February 10, 1906: McGinn held stock in the Oregon Life Insurance Company
 * March 1, 1906: McGinn questions executives of the Portland Gas Company
 * March 03, 1906:
 * March 08, 1906: McGinn represented two people injured by a streetcar
 * March 24, 1906: Gas company investigation
 * May 17, 1906: McGinn stumping for Word
 * May 27, 1906: McGinn sumping for Sheriff Word
 * June 03, 1906: McGinn on suffrage
 * June 19, 1906: McGinn against the gas company
 * July 05, 1906: McGinn defends an alleged murderer
 * July 11, 1906: McGinn's client is convicted of manslaughter
 * September 20, 1906: McGinn's client reconsiled before their divorce case
 * November 22, 1906: McGinn's contempt of court
 * November 25, 1906: McGinn insults the District Attorney in court.
 * November 26, 1906: *November 23, 1906:
 * November 27, 1906: McGinn gets into an argument with Judge Spears and as a result is removed by Sheriff Kelly.
 * December 1, 1906: McGinn's contempt of court case.
 * December 2, 1906: McGinn's contempt of court case.
 * December 03, 1906:
 * December 15, 1906: McGinn represented the father of a boy who was struck by a steetcar.

1907-1910

 * February 01, 1907: McGinn backed Word for sherrif
 * June 12, 1907: McGinn represented a client who lost an eye
 * August 26, 1907: Judge Sears worked with McGinn and Simon at their law firm
 * November 15, 1907: McGinn in the Peoples' Power League
 * October 30, 1908: McGinn stumping for Taft
 * February 26, 1909: A story about McGinn elbowing the Multnomah County Prosecuting Attorney in the ribs.
 * November 30, 1909: The Daily capital journal says the Oregonian is refusing to cover McGinn.
 * August 23, 1910: "Shall Man or Property Rule?"
 * October 06, 1910: Expense report for McGinn
 * November 01, 1910: McGinn refutes making anti-semitic remarks

1911-1922

 * January 06, 1911: McGinn on sentences
 * February 1, 1911: McGinn calls for a reformed system, not an increase in the number of circuit court judges.
 * February 04, 1911: McGinn speaking on the aniversary of Linclons' birthday
 * June 18, 1912: McGinn's father dies in Los Angeles.
 * August 25, 1911: McGinn's court holds that a man cannot be extradited from Oregon from non-payment of alimony.
 * January 9, 1912: McGinn instructed a jury to find in favor of the plaintiff
 * August 26, 1912: McGinn refused to grant divorce to a 19 year old male until he turned 21. They were still married in the 1920 census.
 * September 12, 1912: McGinn introduces Teddy Roosevelt in Portland.
 * January 02, 1913: McGinn was the judge in Klamath Falls for two weeks
 * January 11, 1913: McGinn gave financial support to two Idaho journalists who were jailed for contempt of court
 * August 27, 1913: McGinn fasted for 19 days and lost 25 lbs.
 * February 12, 1914: McGinn alluled a marriage because the woman had divorced three days prior
 * March 20, 1914: McGinn ruled that Oregon companies could pay their taxes semi-annually
 * March 31, 1914: McGinn ruled against a butter company
 * November 20, 1914: McGinn presided over a human trafficking case involving a jewelry store owner, an actor and several baseball players.
 * November 23, 1914: McGinn on an Irish free state
 * June 04, 1914: McGinn let two alledged brothel owners off without a fine because he did not want the city taking their "tainted" money.
 * October 06, 1914: McGinn on Sandy Olds
 * October 18, 1914: McGinn on drunk driving
 * November 20, 1914: McGinn's court heard a human trafficking case
 * September 9, 1915: McGinn asked Teddy Roosevelt to return to the Republican Party
 * October 14, 1915: McGinn made the memorial address at Abigail Scott Duniway memorial service.
 * January 20, 1916: The Oregon Supreme Court refused to allow a case to be held in McGinn's court due to prejudice.
 * February 17, 1916: McGinn convicted a robber
 * September 3, 1916: McGinn and the District Attorney reach an agreement to fine a bootlegger.
 * December 31, 1916: McGinn's retirement
 * January 1917: McGinn banned whites and people of color from using the same swimming pool.
 * September 27, 1917: McGinn on Robert M. La Follette Sr.
 * October 8, 1917: McGinn campaigns for Great War liberty bonds in Chehalem Valley.
 * January 16, 1918: McGinn pleads with a crowd of 400 at Vernon School that the only way to stop the 6 cent streetcar fair was to demand that jitneys (the precursor to buses) be permitted in Portland.
 * October 29, 1918: McGinn on President Wilson
 * December 12, 1918: McGinn defended a German-American man accused of espionage.
 * February 07, 1919: McGinn on the espionage law More on the Albers case
 * February 11, 1919: H. E. McGinn turns 60
 * December 02, 1919: One of McGinn's parolees went on to commit more crimes.
 * February 7, 1920: McGinn's property
 * October 1, 1920: McGinn borrowed a silver dollar from on of the opposing attorneys to make a point. He subsequently won the case.
 * April 27, 1921: Albers is pardoned
 * August 06, 1921: "Courts and common sense"
 * December 04, 1921: McGinn's house was robbed
 * September 13, 1922: McGinn on Joseph Simon

Gen refs
Henry E. McGinn was an Irish American attorney, judge and politicians from Oregon. He opposed alcohol prohibition and went to great lengths to see that people brought up on alcohol related offences were given leniency, which included a dismissal of several cases. McGinn also supported strong civil liberties protections which often put him at odds with the Portland Police Bureau and the city's governing establishment.
 * Oregon Historical Quarterly
 * Oregon SOS website

Early life
Like several other of their peers the McGinns decided to move to the Western United States in 1858 and settled in Portland, Oregon. Charles McGinn was employed as a baker and cracker manufacturer. Anna McGinn was born in Berthie, Quebec, Canada and came to Oregon with Charles McGinn as newlyweds.

Judicial career
During an arson case in October 1914 against A. Wolfman, who claimed that his confession was coerced in a coordinated effort between the District Attorney and Portland Police, McGinn instructed the jury to find the man not guilty. McGinn stated, "Means employed by the District Attorney's office in this case were diabolical. They were illegal and they were wrong. This is not Russia. I do not say these men are innocent, they may be guilty, but I do say they cannot be convicted in my court as such evidence as this." Deputy District Attorney Collier protested his instructions to the jury calling them illegal, but to no avail as the jury followed McGinn's orders and found the defendant not guilty.

McGinn's defiance did not always work in his favor. In 1915 a case he presided upon in which a woman was hit by an automobile and she sought damages from the vehicles driver. After the jury failed to reach a verdict the defendant's attorney requested a chance of venue, which McGinn denied. McGinn told the court, "This case may be tried again, and it will be tired before me; I will see to that. And I will see that the woman gets another verdict and a judgement that will stand". The Oregon Supreme Court reversed his decision to reject the change of venue because his statement indicated he had already made a judgement.

In August 1916, after the state passed an amendment to its constitution banning the sale of alcohol, McGinn heard the case of two men arrested and fined for running an establishment where alcohol was served. The men owned a businesses which offered soft drinks. An undercover police officer come in and ordered alcohol, which was served, and then proceeded to arrest the proprietors. Upon the testimony of two police officers who had directed the undercover officer to make the purchase McGinn abruptly dismissed the case and added, "There was no sale of liquor. Nothing occured but a bogus transaction to entrap people ... [prosecutor T. G. Ryan] and the [police] officers should be put on trial. You invite people to commit a crime by sending stool pigeons and informers to them to buy liquor, and then punish them for the act." When asked by Ryan if he was disregarding the prohibition law altogether McGinn responded, "No, but I wouldn't convict on that sort of evidence".

The following monthm September 1916, McGinn dismissed another case in which an undercover police officer was used. George Hoffman was arrested and fined $200 for allegedly operating a still and offering the undercover officer five dollars a day and free alcohol if he agreed to operate it.

Death
McGinn died in what historian E. Kimbark MacColl described as his "favorite brothel" in 1922.