The Oregon Territorial Legislature

Oregon Territorial Legislature

Oregon’s Territorial Legislature was a bicameral legislative body created by the United States Congress in 1848 as the legislative branch of the government of the Oregon Territory...

 was the legislative branch of the government of the Oregon Territory

Oregon Territory

The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. Originally claimed by several countries , the region was...

, a territory of the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, from 1849 to 1858.

1849

House (Speaker

Speaker (politics)

The term speaker is a title often given to the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the...

: Asa Lovejoy

Asa Lovejoy

Asa Lawrence Lovejoy was an American pioneer and politician in the region that would become the U.S. state of Oregon. He is best remembered as a founder of the city of Portland, Oregon...

)

• H. J. Mulkey, Benton
• G. B. Smith, Benton
• William Williams Chapman, Champoeg
• W. T. Matlock, Champoeg
• W. D. Holman, Clackamas
• Asa L. Lovejoy, Clackamas

• G. Walling, Clackamas
• M. T. Simmons, Clatsop, Lewis, & Vancouver
• Jacob S. Conser, Linn
• J. A. Dunlap, Linn
• H. N. V. Holmes, Polk
• William M. King, Polk

• S. Burch, Polk
• David Hill
  David Hill (Oregon politician)
  David Hill , was an American pioneer and settler of what became Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. He served in the Provisional Government of Oregon in both the executive and legislative branches, and later as a legislator in the first Oregon Territorial Legislature...
  
  , Tualatin
• Absalom J. Hembree
  Absalom J. Hembree
  Absalom Jefferson Hembree was an American soldier and politician in what became the state of Oregon. A native of Tennessee, he served in the Provisional Legislature of Oregon and the Oregon Territorial Legislature before being killed in action during the Yakima War.-Early years:Absalom Hembree was...
  
  , Yamhill
• Robert Crouch Kinney
  Robert Crouch Kinney
  Robert Crouch Kinney was an American businessman and politician in what became the state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he helped found Muscatine, Iowa, before crossing the Oregon Trail and settling in what became Oregon...
  
  , Yamhill
• J. B. Walling, Yamhill

Council (President: Samuel Parker

Samuel Parker (Oregon politician)

Samuel Parker was an American pioneer of the Oregon Country, in what was to become the state of Oregon. Parker would later participate in the legislatures of the provisional, territorial, and state governments of Oregon.-Early life:...

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• A. L. Humphries, Benton
• Samuel Parker
  Samuel Parker (Oregon politician)
  Samuel Parker was an American pioneer of the Oregon Country, in what was to become the state of Oregon. Parker would later participate in the legislatures of the provisional, territorial, and state governments of Oregon.-Early life:...
  
  , Champoeg
• Wesley Shannon, Champoeg

• W. W. Buck, Clackamas
• S. F. McKean, Clatsop, Lewis, & Vancouver
• W. B. Maley, Linn

• Nathaniel Ford
  Nathaniel Ford
  Nathaniel Ford was an American politician and Oregon pioneer during the time of the Oregon Territory. A native of Missouri, he worked as a sheriff in that state before moving to the Oregon Country where he was selected as judge in the Provisional Government of Oregon and served in the Oregon...
  
  , Polk
• Wilson Blain, Tualatin
• James B. Graves, Yamhill

1850

House (Speaker: Ralph Wilcox)

• Joseph C. Avery
  Joseph C. Avery
  Joseph Conant Avery was the founder of Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Avery was the first postmaster for the community, and served as a legislator in the Provisional Government of Oregon and the government of the Oregon Territory.-Early life:...
  
  , Benton
• W. St. Clair, Benton
• Hector Campbell, Clackamas
• W. T. Matlock, Clackamas
• Benjamin Simpson, Clackamas
• Truman P. Powers, Clackamas, Lewis & Clark

• William Allphine, Linn
• Elias L. Walters, Linn
• Benjamin F. Harding
  Benjamin F. Harding
  Benjamin Franklin Harding was an American attorney and politician born in Pennsylvania. He held political offices in the Oregon Territory and later served as a United States Senator from the state of Oregon.-Early life:...
  
  , Marion
• William Parker, Marion
• William Shaw, Marion
• H. N. V. Holmes, Polk

• John Thorp, Polk
• William M. King, Washington
• Ralph Wilcox
  Ralph Wilcox
  Doctor Ralph Wilcox , was the first teacher and practicing doctor in Portland, Oregon, United States. He also served in the Provisional Government of Oregon, was a legislator during both the territorial period and when Oregon became a state, and a judge of Twality County during the provisional...
  
  , Washington
• Matthew Deady
  Matthew Deady
  Matthew Paul Deady was a politician and jurist in the Oregon Territory and the state of Oregon of the United States. He served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1853 to 1859, at which time he was appointed to the newly created federal court of the state...
  
  , Yamhill
• S.M. Gilmore, Yamhill
• Aaron Payne, Yamhill

Council (President: W. W. Buck)

• A. L. Humphries, Benton
• W. W. Buck, Clackamas
• S. F. McKean, Clatsop, Clark, & Lewis

• W. B. Mealey, Linn
• Richard Miller, Marion
• Samuel Parker, Marion

• Frederick Waymire
  Frederick Waymire
  Frederick Waymire was an American farmer and politician in what became the state of Oregon. A native of Ohio, he served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature and was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention...
  
  , Polk
• Lawrence Hall, Washington
• James McBride
  James McBride (politician)
  James McBride was an American politician, educator, and patriarch of a political family in the state of Oregon. A native of Tennessee, he served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature and as United States Minister to Hawaii, as well as one of the founders of the Oregon Republican Party...
  
  , Yamhill

1851

House (Speaker: William M. King)

• William Allphine, Linn
• John A. Anderson, Clatsop & Pacific
• J. C. Avery, Benton
• Z. C. Bishop, Washington
• D. F. Brownfield, Clatsop & Pacific
• Wilie W. Chapman, Marion
• George Edward Cole
  George Edward Cole
  George Edward Cole was a Delegate from the Territory of Washington.Born in Trenton , Oneida County, New York, Cole attended the public schools and Hobart Hall Institute....
  
  , Benton
• George Law Curry
  George Law Curry
  George Law Curry was a United States political figure and newspaper publisher predominately in what became the state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he published a newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri, before traveling the Oregon Trail to the unorganized Oregon Country...
  
  , Clackamas

• James Davidson, Marion
• Joseph W. Drew, Umpqua
• Nathaniel Ford, Polk
• A. J. Hembree, Yamhill
• J. S. Holman, Polk
• William M. King, Washington
• Robert Crouch Kinney
  Robert Crouch Kinney
  Robert Crouch Kinney was an American businessman and politician in what became the state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he helped found Muscatine, Iowa, before crossing the Oregon Trail and settling in what became Oregon...
  
  , Yamhill
• W. T. Matlock, Clackamas

• Samuel McSween, Yamhill
• D. M. Risdon, Lane
• Benjamin Simpson, Marion
• Aaron E. Waite
  Aaron E. Waite
  Aaron E. Waite was an American judge and politician. He was the 4th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court serving from 1859 to 1862. He was the first chief justice after Oregon became a state on February 14, 1859...
  
  , Clackamas
• Luther White, Linn
• Ralph Wilcox, Washington

Council (President: Samuel Parker)

• A. L. Humphries, Benton, Lane, & Umpqua
• Asa L. Lovejoy, Clackamas
• Columbia Lancaster
  Columbia Lancaster
  Columbia Lancaster was a Delegate from the Territory of Washington.-Early life:Born in New Milford, Connecticut, Lancaster moved with his family to Canfield, Ohio, in 1817. There he attended the common schools before he moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1824...
  
  , Clarke & Lewis

• W. B. Mealey, Linn
• Joseph Garrison, Marion
• Samuel Parker, Marion

• Fredrick Waymire, Polk
• Lawrence Hall, Washington
• Matthew Deady
  Matthew Deady
  Matthew Paul Deady was a politician and jurist in the Oregon Territory and the state of Oregon of the United States. He served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1853 to 1859, at which time he was appointed to the newly created federal court of the state...
  
  , Yamhill

1852

House (Speaker: Benjamin F. Harding

Benjamin F. Harding

Benjamin Franklin Harding was an American attorney and politician born in Pennsylvania. He held political offices in the Oregon Territory and later served as a United States Senator from the state of Oregon.-Early life:...

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• J. C. Avery, Benton
• George Edward Cole, Benton
• W. T. Matlock, Clackamas
• Aaron E. Waite, Clackamas
• Lot Whitcomb, Clackamas
• F. A. Chenoweth
  Francis A. Chenoweth
  Francis A. Chenoweth was an American lawyer and politician in the Pacific Northwest. A native of Ohio, he lived in Iowa and Wisconsin before immigrating to the Oregon Territory. There he served in the legislature of the Oregon Territory and then the Washington Territory, including serving as...
  
  , Clark & Lewis
• John A. Anderson, Clatsop & Pacific
• Curtis, Douglas
• J. F. Hardin, Jackson

• Thomas N. Aubrey, Lane
• Royal Cottle, Linn
• James Curl, Linn
• Jacob S. Conser, Marion
• Benjamin F. Harding
  Benjamin F. Harding
  Benjamin Franklin Harding was an American attorney and politician born in Pennsylvania. He held political offices in the Oregon Territory and later served as a United States Senator from the state of Oregon.-Early life:...
  
  , Marion
• Benjamin Simpson, Marion
• J. M. Fulkerson, Polk
• H. N. V. Holmes, Polk
• Isaac N Eby, Thurston

• A. C. Gibbs
  A. C. Gibbs
  Addison Cranwick Gibbs was an American politician. He was the second Governor of Oregon from 1862 until 1866, and previously served in the Oregon Territory's legislative body and later the state legislature.-Early life:...
  
  , Umpqua
• Israel Mitchell, Washington
• Benjamin Stark
  Benjamin Stark
  Benjamin Stark was an American merchant and politician in Oregon. A native of Louisiana, he purchased some of the original tracts of land for the city of Portland. He later served in the Oregon House of Representatives before appointment to the United States Senate in 1860 after the death of...
  
  , Washington
• Milton Tuttle, Washington
• John Carey, Yamhill
• E. B. Martin, Yamhill
• John Richardson, Yamhill

Council (President: Matthew Deady

Matthew Deady

Matthew Paul Deady was a politician and jurist in the Oregon Territory and the state of Oregon of the United States. He served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1853 to 1859, at which time he was appointed to the newly created federal court of the state...

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• A. L. Humphries, Benton & Lane
• Asa L. Lovejoy, Clackamas
• Lucius W. Phelps, Linn

• Joseph M. Garrison, Marion
• Fredrick Waymire, Polk
• Levi Scott
  Levi Scott (pioneer)
  Levi C. Scott was a politician in the Oregon Territory of the United States in the 1850s. A native of Illinois, he was a captain during the Cayuse War, helped lay the Applegate Trail, served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature, and in 1857 was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention...
  
  , Umpqua, Douglas & Jackson

• Lawrence Hall, Washington
• Matthew Deady
  Matthew Deady
  Matthew Paul Deady was a politician and jurist in the Oregon Territory and the state of Oregon of the United States. He served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1853 to 1859, at which time he was appointed to the newly created federal court of the state...
  
  , Yamhill

1853

House (Speaker: C. Z. Bishop)

• James A. Bennett, Benton
• C. F. Chapman, Benton
• L. F. Cartee, Clackamas
• F. C. Cason, Clackamas
• B. B. Jackson, Clackamas
• J. W. Moffitt, Clatsop
• L. S. Thompson, Douglas
• George H. Ambrose, Jackson
• John F. Miller, Jackson

• Chauncey Nye, Jackson
• Stephen Goff, Lane
• H. B. Hadley, Lane
• Luther Elkins
  Luther Elkins
  Luther Elkins was an American politician and pioneer in the state of Oregon. Born in Cornville, Maine and married to Philotheta Williams, he immigrated to the Oregon Territory overland via the Oregon Trail in 1852. He served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature and was a delegate to the Oregon...
  
  , Linn
• I. N. Smith, Linn
• E. F. Colby, Marion
• La Fayette Grover
  La Fayette Grover
  La Fayette Grover was a Democratic politician and lawyer from the US state of Oregon. He was the fourth Governor of Oregon, serving from 1870 to 1877...
  
  , Marion
• John C. Peebles, Marion
• Reuben P. Boise
  Reuben P. Boise
  Reuben Patrick Boise was an American attorney, judge and politician in the Oregon Territory and the early years of the state of Oregon. A native of Massachusetts, he immigrated to Oregon in 1850, where he would twice serve on the Oregon Supreme Court for a total of 16 years, with three stints as...
  
  , Polk & Tillamook

• W. S. Gilliam, Polk
• Z. C. Bishop, Washington
• A. A. Durham, Washington
• Robert Thompson, Washington
• Orlando Humason, Yamhill
• E. B. Martin, Yamhill
• Andrew Shuck, Yamhill
• A. B. Westerfield, Yamhill

Council (President: Ralph Wilcox)

• A. L. Humphries, Benton & Lane
• James K. Kelly
  James K. Kelly
  James Kerr Kelly was an American politician born in Pennsylvania. He was a United States Senator for Oregon from 1871 to 1877, and later Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court...
  
  , Clackamas
• T. P. Powers, Clatsop

• Lucius W. Phelps, Linn
• Benjamin Simpson, Marion
• James M. Fulkerson, Polk

• Levi Scott, Umpqua, Douglas & Jackson
• Ralph Wilcox, Washington
• John Richardson, Yamhill

1854

House (Speaker: L. F. Cartee)

• R. B. Hinton, Benton
• Wayman St. Clair, Benton
• L. F. Cartee, Clackamas
• Asa L. Lovejoy, Clackamas
• W. A. Starkweather, Clackamas
• G. W. Coffinberry, Clatsop
• J. B. Condon, Columbia
• James F. Gazley, Douglas
• C. S. Drew, Jackson
• Jesse Walker, Jackson

• Alex McIntire, Jackson
• Jacob Gillespie, Lane
• A. W. Patterson, Lane
• Hugh L. Brown, Linn
• Delazon Smith
  Delazon Smith
  Delazon Smith was a Democratic Party politician who briefly represented the state of Oregon in the U.S. Senate in 1859. He served for less than one month , making his term among the shortest on record in the Senate...
  
  , Linn
• Luther Elkins
  Luther Elkins
  Luther Elkins was an American politician and pioneer in the state of Oregon. Born in Cornville, Maine and married to Philotheta Williams, he immigrated to the Oregon Territory overland via the Oregon Trail in 1852. He served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature and was a delegate to the Oregon...
  
  , Linn
• C. P. Crandall, Marion
• Nathaniel Ford, Marion
• Ralph Carey Geer
  Ralph Carey Geer
  Ralph Carey Geer was an American farmer and politician in what became the state of Oregon. A native of Connecticut, he lived in Ohio and Illinois before taking the Oregon Trail west to Oregon where he started a nursery and later raised livestock and grew flax...
  
  , Marion
• David Logan
  David Logan (Oregon politician)
  David Logan was an American attorney and politician in the territory of and later state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he moved to Oregon in 1850 where he served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature and in the Oregon Constitutional Convention...
  
  , Multnomah

• Ira F. M. Butler, Polk
• H. N. V. Holmes, Polk
• Robert Ladd, Umpqua
• D. H. Belknap, Washington
• E. S. Tanner, Washington
• Orlando Humason, Wasco
• A. J. Hembree, Yamhill
• A. G. Henry, Yamhill

Council (President: James K. Kelly)

• A. L. Humphries, Benton & Lane
• James K. Kelly, Clackamas & Wasco
• G. E. Greer, Columbia & Washington

• E. H. Cleaveland, Jackson
• Lucius W. Phelps, Linn
• John C. Peebles, Marion

• James M. Fulkerson, Polk
• Levi Scott, Umpqua & Douglas
• John Richardson, Yamhill

1855

House (Speaker: Delazon Smith)

• H. C. Buckingham, Benton
• John Robinson, Benton
• James Officer, Clackamas
• Orville Risley, Clackamas
• Hiram Straight
  Hiram Straight
  Hiram Aldrich Straight was an American farmer and legislator in what became the state of Oregon. A native of New York state, he would live in Iowa before traveling the Oregon Trail to what was then the Oregon Country...
  
  , Clackamas
• Philo Callender, Clatsop
• John Harris, Columbia
• William Tichenor, Coos
• William Hutson, Douglas
• M. C. Barkwell, Jackson

• George Briggs, Jackson
• Thomas Smith, Jackson
• John E. Hale, Jackson
• A. McAlexander, Lane
• Isaac R. Moores
  Isaac R. Moores
  Col. Isaac R. Moores was an American soldier and politician in Illinois and Oregon. A native of Kentucky, he would serve in the Seminole War and the Black Hawk War before immigrating to the Oregon Territory. In Oregon, Moores served in the Territorial Legislature and at the Oregon Constitutional...
  
  , Lane
• Hugh L. Brown, Linn
• Delazon Smith, Linn
• B. P. Grant, Linn
• La Fayette Grover, Marion
• William P. Harpole, Marion

• John M. Harrison, Marion
• George W. Brown, Multnomah
• Hyer Jackson, Multnomah & Washington
• Reuben P. Boise
  Reuben P. Boise
  Reuben Patrick Boise was an American attorney, judge and politician in the Oregon Territory and the early years of the state of Oregon. A native of Massachusetts, he immigrated to Oregon in 1850, where he would twice serve on the Oregon Supreme Court for a total of 16 years, with three stints as...
  
  , Polk & Tillamook
• Fred Waymire, Polk
• J. M. Cozad, Umpqua
• N. H. Gates, Wasco
• H. V. V. Johnson, Washington
• A. F. Burbank, Yamhill
• Andrew Shuck, Yamhill

Council (President: A. P. Dennison)

• A. A. Smith, Benton & Lane
• James K. Kelly, Clackamas & Wasco
• John E. Ross, Jackson

• Charles Drain
  Charles Drain (pioneer)
  Charles Drain was a politician in the Oregon Territory and later the U.S. state of Oregon, and the founder of Drain, Oregon. He was born in 1816 near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The family moved to Shelby County, Indiana, when Charles was five. Both parents soon died...
  
  , Linn
• John C. Peebles, Marion
• A. P. Dennison, Multnomah

• James M. Fulkerson, Polk & Tillamook
• Hugh D. O'Bryant, Umqua, Douglas & Coos
• N. Huber, Yamhill

1856

House (Speaker: La Fayette Grover

La Fayette Grover

La Fayette Grover was a Democratic politician and lawyer from the US state of Oregon. He was the fourth Governor of Oregon, serving from 1870 to 1877...

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• Joseph C. Avery, Benton
• J. A. Bennett, Benton
• F. A. Collard, Clackamas
• Asa L. Lovejoy, Clackamas
• W. A. Starkweather, Clackamas
• J. W. Moffitt, Clatsop
• Samuel E. Barr, Columbia
• A. E. Rogers, Coos & Curry
• Aaron Rose, Douglas
• A. M. Berry, Jackson & Josephine

• John Stanton Miller, Jackson
• Thomas Smith, Jackson
• W. J. Matthews, Josephine
• R. B. Cochran, Lane
• James Munroe, Lane
• William Ray, Linn
• Hugh L. Brown, Linn
• Delazon Smith, Linn
• Jacob Conser, Marion
• La Fayette Grover
  La Fayette Grover
  La Fayette Grover was a Democratic politician and lawyer from the US state of Oregon. He was the fourth Governor of Oregon, serving from 1870 to 1877...
  
  , Marion

• William P. Harpole, Marion
• George W. Brown, Multnomah
• Thomas J. Dryer
  Thomas J. Dryer
  Thomas Jefferson Dryer was a newspaper publisher, Freemason, mountain climber, and politician in the Western United States.He was born on January 10, 1808, in Ulster County, New York. Dryer founded the Weekly Oregonian, which has survived as the daily Oregonian, and served as its publisher...
  
  , Multnomah & Washington
• Walter M. Walker
  Walter M. Walker
  Major Walter M. Walker was a pioneer of the U.S. state of Oregon. He had risen to the rank of major during the Indian Wars, and crossed the plains in 1848 with a train of 55 wagons. He settled in the area now known as Polk County, Oregon, on the west bank of the Willamette River, not far from the...
  
  , Polk & Tillamook
• A. J. Welch, Polk
• D. C. Underwood, Umpqua
• N. H. Gates, Wasco
• H. V. V. Johnson, Washington
• William Allen, Yamhill
• Andrew J. Shuck, Yamhill

Council (President: James Kerr Kelly)

• James K. Kelly, Clackamas & Wasco
• John E. Ross, Jackson
• A. A. Smith, Lane & Benton

• Charles Drain, Linn
• John C. Peebles, Marion
• Nathaniel Ford, Polk & Tillamook

• Hugh D. O'Bryant, Umqua, Douglas & Coos
• Thomas R. Cornelius
  Thomas R. Cornelius
  Thomas R. Cornelius was a prominent American politician and soldier in the early history of Oregon. A native of Missouri, he moved to the Oregon Country with his family as a young man where he fought in the Cayuse War and Yakima Indian War against the Native Americans...
  
  , Washington, Multnomah, & Columbia
• J. R. Bayley, Yamhill & Clatsop

1857

House (Speaker: Ira F. M. Butler)

• Reuben C. Hill, Benton
• James H. Slater
  James H. Slater
  James Harvey Slater was a United States Representative and Senator from Oregon. An Illinois native, Slater also served in the Oregon Territory’s Legislature, then later the Oregon State Legislature, and was the owner of the Corvallis Union newspaper.-Early life:Born near Springfield, Illinois, in...
  
  , Benton
• F. A. Collard, Clackamas
• S. P. Gilliland, Clackamas
• George Rees, Clackamas
• Joseph Jeffers, Clatsop
• F. M. Warren, Columbia
• T. G. Kirkpatrick, Coos & Curry
• A. A. Matthews, Douglas
• R. S. Belknap, Jackson & Josephine

• H. H. Brown, Jackson
• William M. Hughes, Jackson
• J. G. Spear, Josephine
• J. W. Mack, Lane
• John Whiteaker
  John Whiteaker
  John Whiteaker was an American politician, soldier, and judge primarily in Oregon. A native of Indiana, he joined the Army during the Mexican-American War and then prospected during the California Gold Rush. After moving to the Oregon Territory he served as a judge and member of the legislature...
  
  , Lane
• Hugh L. Brown, Linn
• Anderson Cox, Linn
• N. H. Craner, Linn
• George Able, Marion
• E. C. Cooley, Marion

• J. Woodsides, Marion
• Thomas J. Dryer, Multnomah & Washington
• William M. King, Multnomah
• Ira F. M. Butler, Polk
• Benjamin Hayden, Polk & Tillamook
• James Cole, Umpqua
• N. H. Gates, Wasco
• H. V. V. Johnson, Washington
• A. J. Shuck, Yamhill
• William Allen, Yamhill

Council (President: Hugh D. O'Bryant)

• Aaron E. Wait, Clackamas & Wasco
• A. M. Berry, Jackson & Josephine
• A. A. Smith, Lane & Benton

• Charles Drain, Linn
• Edward Shiel, Marion
• Nathaniel Ford, Polk & Tillamook

• Hugh D. O'Bryant, Umqua, Douglas & Coos
• Thomas Cornelius, Washington, Multnomah, & Columbia
• Thomas Scott, Yamhill & Clatsop

1858

House (Speaker: N. H. Gates)

• H. B. Nichols, Benton
• James H. Slater, Benton
• D. B. Hannah, Clackamas
• A. F. Hedges, Clackamas
• B. Jennings, Clackamas
• W. W. Parker, Clatsop
• W. R. Strong, Columbia
• William Tichenor, Coos & Curry
• A. E. McGee, Douglas

• S. Watson, Jackson
• Daniel Newcomb, Jackson & Josephine
• William G. T'Vault
  William G. T'Vault
  William Green T'Vault was a pioneer of the Oregon Country and the first editor of the first newspaper published west of the Missouri River. T'Vault led a wagon train of 300 that arrived in Oregon in 1845, after traveling on the Meek Cutoff, a branch of the Oregon Trail...
  
  , Jackson
• D. S. Holton, Josephine
• W. W. Chapman, Lane
• W. S. Jones, Lane
• Benjamin F. Bonham
  Benjamin F. Bonham
  Benjamin F. Bonham was an American educator, politician, and judge in Oregon. He was the 9th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, USA. Overall he was on Oregon’s highest court from 1870 to 1876. Prior to joining the court he was in the Oregon Territorial Legislature and the first State...
  
  , Marion
• J. H. Lassater, Marion
• J. H. Stevens, Marion

• Thomas J. Dryer, Multnomah
• H. N. V. Holmes, Polk & Tillamook
• Isaac Smith, Polk
• James Cole, Umpqua
• N. H. Gates, Wasco
• Wilson Bowlby, Washington
• Erasmus D. Shattuck
  Erasmus D. Shattuck
  Erasmus Darwin Shattuck was an American politician and judge in the state of Oregon. He served as the 7th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court serving from 1866 to 1867...
  
  , Washington & Multnomah
• John H. Smith, Yamhill

Council (President: Charles Drain

Charles Drain (pioneer)

Charles Drain was a politician in the Oregon Territory and later the U.S. state of Oregon, and the founder of Drain, Oregon. He was born in 1816 near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The family moved to Shelby County, Indiana, when Charles was five. Both parents soon died...

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• Aaron E. Wait, Clackamas & Wasco
• James Hendershott, Columbia & Washington
• A. M. Berry, Jackson & Josephine
• James W. Mack, Lane & Benton

• Charles Drain, Linn
• Samuel Parker, Marion
• Thomas Cornelius, Multnomah, Columbia, & Washington
• Nathaniel Ford, Polk & Tillamook

• Hugh D. O'Bryant, Umqua, Coos, Curry, & Douglas
• George H. Steward, Yamhill & Clatsop