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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 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] 20:37, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Books, online resources, etc. that will help in writing and editing

• Corning, Howard M. Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956, for important people pre-1950.
• History of Portland on Google books so you can search; or download it in PDF (free!) here.Scott, Harvey (1890). History of Portland Oregon. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse.
  • 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
• Chapman Publishing Company (1903). Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley, Oregon: Containing Original Sketches of Many Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present.

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

Pioneers

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

Politicians

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.

U.S. 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.

Other

• 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_/

Templates

Prefab infoboxen

What to type or copy	What it makes	Instructions and Notes
{{Infobox Politician | name = | image = | width = | height = | caption = | small_image = | office = | term_start = | term_end = | predecessor = | successor = | constituency = | majority = | office2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | constituency2 = | majority2 = | office3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | constituency3 = | majority3 = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = | relations = | spouse = | civil partner = | children = | residence = | occupation = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}	Subject Name	For politicians that may not have an existing template such as exist for U.S. Congress people. Anything left blank will not show up in the article.
{{Infobox Judge | name = | image = | imagesize = | caption = | office = | termstart = | termend = | nominator = | appointer = | predecessor = | successor = | office2 = | termstart2 = | termend2 = | nominator2 = | appointer2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | birthdate = | birthplace = | deathdate = | deathplace = | spouse = | profession = | religion = | signature = }}	Subject Name	For Justices of the Oregon Supreme Court. Under office put #th Associate Justice (or Chief Justice) of the Oregon Supreme Court. Parts with2 are for those who were chief justice to put their time as associate justice. Appointed is only if appointed to the court instead of elected, name of appointer (not year or yes).
{{Infobox Person | name = | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = | title = | salary = | networth = | height = | weight = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}	Subject Name	Use if nothing else exists. Most fields optional, so remove or leave blank fields that are N/A.