Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/People

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 WikiProject Oregon.

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 * Katr67 17:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sprkee 17:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC) I'll keep working on political type people
 * -Pete 23:12, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Terrickisaiah555 [T]/[C] [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|25px|]] 20:37, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

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

To create:
 * Andre Longtain - owned land where Champoeg vote held, came to Oregon in 1811 to help found Ft. Astoria.
 * 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.
 * Colonel James Taylor: Astoria settler, assistant commissary to General Joel Palmer, first territorial treasurer.

To expand:
 * Ira L. Babcock
 * William J. Bailey
 * François Norbert Blanchet: see what links to him for more info
 * Nathaniel Ford
 * William H. Gray
 * Osborne Russell, helped build Fort Hall in Idaho, fur trader, later candidate for Provisional Governor. 2nd Executive Committee. Oregon Early Authorities - Supreme Court Justices page 6
 * William H. Willson: Salem founder, Champoeg participant, namesake for Willson Park.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

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): 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, first African American elected to the Oregon House (1972)

To expand:
 * 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.
 * 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)
 * 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.


 * Schnitzer family, Oregon's Rockefellers, namesake for the company, theater, and museum . 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 Angelina Owens-Adair, doctor   and in Dictionary of Oregon History (p. 187).
 * George Putnam, Medford journalist, https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/putnam_george_1872_1961_/