List of Oregon judges
Provisional Government -- Creation of the Provisional Government
Table:
Name

Years

Notes

Albert E. Wilson

July 5, 1843 (elected)

Elected at Champoeg Meetings, but declined to serve.

Osborne Russell

October 2, 1843 – May 14, 1844

Served as circuit judge and presiding judge

Ira L. Babcock

June 27, 1844 – November 11, 1844

Served as circuit judge and presiding judge

James W. Nesmith

December 25, 1844 – August 9, 1845

Appointed by Executive Committee before election in 1845, served as circuit judge and presiding judge.

Nathaniel Ford

August 9, 1845 (elected)

Elected by Provisional Legislature, but declined to serve.

Peter Hardeman Burnett

September 6, 1845 – December 29, 1846

Elected by legislature as supreme judge.

J. Quinn Thornton

February 20, 1847 – November 9, 1847

Appointed by Governor George Abernethy as supreme judge.

Columbia Lancaster

November 30, 1847 – April 9, 1849

Appointed by Governor George Abernethy as supreme judge.

Asa Lovejoy

no record

Elected by Provisional Legislature on February 16, 1849 as supreme judge.

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Albert E. A.E . Wilson ( c. 1813 - March 28 , 1861 ) was an American pioneer and merchant in Oregon Country . Raised in the United States , he moved to what would become the U.S. state of Oregon where he operated stores , was involved in politics , and was elected as the first judge of the Provisional Government of Oregon .
The Champoeg Meetings were the first attempts at formal governance by European-American and French Canadian pioneers in the Oregon Country on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America . Between 1841 and 1843 , a series of public councils was held at Champoeg , a settlement on the French Prairie of the Willamette River valley in present-day Marion County , Oregon , and at surrounding settlements . The meetings were organized by newly arrived settlers as well as Protestant missionaries from the Methodist Mission and Catholic Jesuit priests from Canada . Since the first decade of the 19th century , a small but growing number of pioneers had settled in the Oregon Country , mostly to pursue business interests in the North American fur trade . Despite its economic value , the region was so vast and remote that it was left unorganized for several decades , with no European-American government in place to set laws and resolve disputes . Prior to the Champoeg Meetings , the closest thing to a government in the Oregon Country was the privately owned Hudson 's Bay Company , which effected a loose authority mainly through the efforts of Dr. John McLoughlin at Fort Vancouver in present-day Vancouver , Washington . Uncertainty about settling the estate of prominent settler Ewing Young in 1841 stirred a group of settlers led by missionary Jason Lee to advocate for a settler-run local government in the region . The assemblies at Champoeg addressed issues of probate law and estate administration , how to reward hunters who killed animals preying on livestock , and how to compromise on a system of leadership for the proposed government . The meetings eventually culminated in a vote on May 2 , 1843 , which concluded in favor of forming what became the Provisional Government of Oregon . Though primarily supported by American pioneers and opposed by French Canadian settlers in anticipation of the region 's annexation by the United States , several French Canadians also voted in favor of forming a provisional government . A state park and marker at the site of the May 2 vote commemorate the proceedings , as well as a large mural behind the desk of the Oregon Speaker of the House at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem .
Osborne Russell ( 1814 - August 2 , 1892 ) was a mountain man and politician who helped form the government of the U.S. state of Oregon . He was born in Maine .
Doctor Ira Leonard Babcock ( ca . 1808 - March 21 , 1888 ) was an American pioneer and doctor in the Oregon Country . A native of New York , he was selected as the first Supreme Judge with probate powers in February 1841 in what would become the state of Oregon . Although the meeting where he was selected did not produce an acting government , he also took over the executive and legislative powers as the first person in Oregon 's history . The meeting was the first of several meetings , presided by him since 1842 , that led to a Provisional Government in the Willamette Valley in May 1843 .
James Willis Nesmith ( July 23 , 1820 - June 17 , 1885 ) was an American politician and lawyer from Oregon . Born in New Brunswick to American parents , he grew up in New Hampshire and Maine . A Democrat , he moved to Oregon Country in 1843 where he entered politics as a judge , a legislator in the Provisional Government of Oregon , a United States Marshal , and after statehood a United States Senator and Representative . Nesmiths grandson , Clifton N. McArthur , and son-in-law , Levi Ankeny , both later served in Congress .
An Executive Committee was the title of a three-person committee which served as the executive Branch of the Provisional Government of Oregon in the disputed Oregon Country . This arrangement was announced on July 5 , 1843 , after three months of study by the Provisional Legislature at Champoeg . Two different Executive Committees served until the system was abandoned in 1845 in favor of an elected single chief executive . [ citation needed ]
Nathaniel Ford ( c. 1795 - January 9 , 1870 ) 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 Territorial Legislature . Ford also lost a civil case that freed his slaves who he had brought across the Oregon Trail from Missouri .
Peter Hardeman Burnett ( November 15 , 1807 - May 17 , 1895 ) was an American politician and the first elected governor of California , serving from December 20 , 1849 , to January 9 , 1851 , and the first to resign from office . Burnett was elected governor almost one year before California 's admission to the United States as the 31st state in September 1850 , and was the last governor during the interim period that began with US military occupation during the Mexican-American War .
Jesse Quinn Thornton ( 1810-1888 ) was an American settler of Oregon , active in political , legal , and educational circles . He served as the 6th Supreme Judge of the Provisional Government of Oregon , presented Oregon 's petition for official territorial status to Congress , served in the Oregon Legislature , and wrote the state 's motto .
George Abernethy ( October 7 , 1807 - March 2 , 1877 ) was an American politician , pioneer , notable entrepreneur , and first governor of Oregon under the provisional government based in the Willamette Valley , an area later a part of the American state of Oregon . He traveled to Oregon Country as a secular member of the Methodist mission , where he became involved in politics and helped found the first American newspaper west of the Rocky Mountains .
Columbia Lancaster ( August 26 , 1803 - September 15 , 1893 ) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the first Delegate from the Territory of Washington to the United States House of Representatives .
Asa Lawrence Lovejoy ( March 14 , 1808 - September 10 , 1882 ) 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 . He was an attorney in Boston , Massachusetts before traveling by land to Oregon ; he was a legislator in the Provisional Government of Oregon , mayor of Oregon City , and a general during the Cayuse War that followed the Whitman massacre in 1847 . He was also a candidate for Provisional Governor in 1847 , before the Oregon Territory was founded , but lost that election . Lovejoy continued his political career during territorial period as a member of both chambers of the Oregon Territorial Legislature ; he served as the first Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in 1849 . He was also a delegate to the Oregon Constitutional Convention held in 1857 that paved the way for Oregon 's entry into the Union . He was part owner of the Oregon Telegraph newspaper , and worked on railroad development in the Willamette Valley after leaving politics . Lovejoy Street in Northwest Portland and the Lovejoy Fountain in Downtown Portland are named in his honor .