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Leslie Marr 
 Sir Leslie Lynn Marr, 2nd Baronet (14 August 1922 – 4 May 2021) was a British landscape artist, painter and former racing driver.
Leslie Marr 
 He retired from his last world championship race in 1955, after a damaged brake pipe caused him to spin off.
Leslie Marr 
 Marr competed in several non-Championship races, with his best results including winning the 1955 Cornwall MRC Formula 1 Race and finishing fourth in the 1956 New Zealand Grand Prix.
Liberty Place 
 They are made up of a 61-story,  skyscraper called One Liberty Place, a 58-story,  skyscraper called Two Liberty Place, a two-story shopping mall called the Shops at Liberty Place, and the 14-story Westin Philadelphia Hotel.
Liberty Place 
 Construction of One Liberty Place was approved and the first phase of the project began in 1985 and was completed in 1987.
Melanie Stansbury 
 Stansbury was a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives for the 28th district from 2019 until 2021.
Paul Mooney (comedian) 
 Paul Gladney (August 4, 1941 – May 19, 2021), better known by the stage name Paul Mooney, was an American comedian, writer, social critic and actor.
Molly Crabapple 
 She has also written books including an illustrated memoir Drawing Blood (2015), Discordia (with Laurie Penny) on the Greek economic crisis, and the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (2012).
Molly Crabapple 
 Some of her are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Barjeel Art Foundation and the New-York Historical Society.
George Earle Chamberlain 
 George Earle Chamberlain ( 1854-1928 ) was an American politician, legislator, and public official, born near Natchez, Miss. He graduated from the academic and law departments of Washington and Lee University in 1876, then practiced law in Oregon, and soon be a member of the State legislature.
George Earle Chamberlain 
 He served as district attorney for the third judicial district, Attorney-General of the State, and district attorney for the fourth judicial district.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 Frank W. Benson (March 20, 1858 – April 14, 1911) was an American politician, a Republican, and the 12th governor of Oregon from 1909 to 1910.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 Benson was born in San Jose, California in 1858 to a minister sent west by the Methodist Epispocal Church in 1882.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 His father, Henry Clarke Benson, moved the family to Portland, Oregon to become editor of the Pacific Christian Accord in 1864.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 Young Frank was enrolled in the Portland Academy, later continuing his education at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 Benson assumed his first elected office as Superintendent of Douglas County Schools between 1882 and 1886.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 In 1906, Benson would run for Secretary of State, winning both the Republican primary and the general election.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 The sitting governor George Earle Chamberlain won election to the United States Senate in 1909 and resigned the governor's seat.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 As Secretary of State, Frank Benson was next in the gubernatorial line of sucession, and was sworn into office March 1, 1909.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 Following Governor Stephen F. Chadwick's example, who assumed the governorship in 1877 under similar circumstances, Benson kept both the Governor's and Secretary of State's offices.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 Governor Benson undertook no major changes in the state government despite holding two of the states most powerful offices.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 Instead, he called for a special session of the Legislative Assembly to pass a bill which had been overlooked in the last (25th Biennial) Session.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 This bill funded operation costs for the state's major institutions, namely the state's prison, reform school, mental hospital, school for the blind, and veteran's home.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 Although his condition had seemed to improve since taking office, he left for California in 1910 to seek further treatment.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon Governor) 
 On June 15, 1910, Benson telephoned his priovate secretary, transfering the Governor's powers to  Oregon State Senate President Jay Bowerman until he could return to Salem.
Jay Bowerman 
 Jay Bowerman (August 15, 1876 – October 25, 1957) was an American politician, a Republican, who served most notably as the 13th Governor of Oregon.
Jay Bowerman 
 He entered Willamette University that same year and graduated with a law degree in 1896 at the age of twenty.
Jay Bowerman 
 He married Elizabeth Hoover in 1903 and together they had three children: William, Daniel and Elizabeth.
Jay Bowerman 
 However, the couple divorced and Bowerman married Wayfe Hockett in 1914; this marriage produced two further children, Sally and Jayne.
Jay Bowerman 
 He was elected to the Oregon State Senate from Gilliam County in 1904 and was reelected four years later.
Jay Bowerman 
 Mindful of bureaucratic economy, Bowerman advocated establishment of a Board of Control to administer the state institutions, which would permit fiscal savings by combined purchasing for state institutions through the office of a single purchasing agent.
Jay Bowerman 
 He acted to reduce the risk of loss through bank failure by prohibiting Oregon bankers from the use of speculative stock as assets if they had actively promoted that stock.
Jay Bowerman 
 In 1904 the citizens of Oregon adopted a direct primary law prohibiting party nominating conventions.
Jay Bowerman 
 But establishment Republicans, unwilling to relinquish party control over nominations, held an "assembly" in 1910 at which they nominated Bowerman as their candidate for governor.
Jay Bowerman 
 He was therefore cast in the role of opponent of the "Oregon System" of direct government by his Democratic gubernatorial rival, Oswald West.
Jay Bowerman 
 Bowerman campaigned on a platform supporting modernized highway systems, increased economies in the administration of government, and continued tight control of state land management.
Jay Bowerman 
 After leaving the office of governor on January 8, 1911, Bowerman moved to Portland, where he resumed the practice of law.
Jay Bowerman 
 As a private citizen he actively supported Oregon's first statewide bond issue for highway construction, a $6,000,000 proposal.
Oswald West 
 Oswald West (May 20, 1873- August 22, 1960) was an American politician, a Democrat, who served most notably as the 14th Governor of the state Oregon.
Oswald West 
 West was born in Ontario, Canada but moved to Salem, Oregon with his family at the age of four where he attended school and eventually went into banking.
Oswald West 
 After several years as a banker in Salem and Astoria, Oregon and a six month stint searching for gold in Alaska West gained an appointment to the State Land Commission.
Oswald West 
 He proved effective in his position with the State Land Commission recovering almost 1 million acres of fraudulently held state land.
Oswald West 
 After leaving the Land Commission he earned a term the Oregon Railroad Commission where he again found a great deal of success.
Oswald West 
 In 1910 he gained the Democratic nomination for Governor and went on to defeat his opponent and take the office.
Oswald West 
 While in office West defended what he called the "Oregon System" which included initiative and referendum systems still in use in many western American states today.
Oswald West 
 These systems led to women's suffrage, prohibition  and various workers rights laws being put in to action under his lead.
Oswald West 
 It was under his administration the beaches bordering the Pacific Ocean were protected for public use; the office of State Forester and the Bureau of Forestry were established; and the Fish Commission and Game Commission were created.
James Withycombe 
 James Withycombe (March 21, 1843-March 3, 1919) was a British-born American politician, a Republican, and the 15th Governor of Oregon.
James Withycombe 
 Withycome emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1871, settling on a farm near Hilsboro, Oregon.
James Withycombe 
 In 1873, Withycomb purchased his own 100 acre parcel on the Horace Lindsay Land Claim, later expanding his holdings to 256 acres.
James Withycombe 
 Agriculture became Withycomb's passion, becoming a prosperous livestock breeder and establishing a reputation as a sucessful scientific farmer.
James Withycombe 
 He became a charter member of the Farmington Grange, and later became a leader in the state grange movement.
James Withycombe 
 From these platforms, Withycomb's efficient, innovative, and profitable farming methods became a model for farmers across the Pacific Northwest.
James Withycombe 
 His stature gained him an appointment as State Veterinarian in 1889, where he would diligently work to improve conditions of livestock health around the state.
James Withycombe 
 Although mostly self-educated, he was sought after by the Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis (now Oregon State University) in 1898 to head up the college's experimental farming station.
James Withycombe 
 Using this position to advance Oregon agriculture, he would play a major part in introducing alfalfa and clover to Eastern Oregon, laying the groundwork for the region's future agricultural economy.
James Withycombe 
 Withycomb also became heavily involved in Oregon's agricultural industry, serving as president of the North Pacific Wool Growers and Northwest Sheep Breeders Associations.
James Withycombe 
 His tenureship on the board of the Oregon Academy of Sciences saw the dairy industry's profits rise from $2.5 million to $20 million.
James Withycombe 
 Such accomplishments built up respect for Withycombe statewide and gained the state Republican Party's attention.
James Withycombe 
 The 1910 election of controversial Democratic Governor Oswald West energized Oregon Republicans, who tapped Withycombe for the 1914 gubernatorial race.
James Withycombe 
 He handily defeated challenger Charles Smith; the first Republican Governor to assume office via election since T. T. Geer in 1903.
James Withycombe 
 A notable proposal from his administration was to ask the Legislative Assembly to subsidize flax production as a prison industry.
James Withycombe 
 The Withycombe Administration backed the "Good Roads" movement, creating the Oregon Highway Commission while in office.
James Withycombe 
 With the new commission in place, a large road-building program was initiated, establishing many of Oregon's modern state routes and highways.
James Withycombe 
 Upon the U.S. entry into the First World War, Governor Withycomb took a vocal and patriotic postion in support of the war effort.
James Withycombe 
 He spoke out publicly against the Industrial Workers of the World, claiming that it terrorized labor and would cripple industry following several instances of I.W.W. threats to disrput production in 1917.
James Withycombe 
 He organized veterans of the Spanish-American War into an Oregon State Defense force, and encouraged citizens in Eastern Oregon to form self-defence committees to defend the state against violent labor agitators.
James Withycombe 
 Withycomb used his powers as Governor to shipyard prevent a strike in Astoria, by calling out the National Guard.
James Withycombe 
 His 1918 reelection campaign capitalized on his wartime acts, portraying him as a wartime Governor actively protecting the state and aiding the defense of the United States.
James Withycombe 
 James Withycombe died in office of a heart condition on March 3, 1919, succeeded by President of the Oregon State Senate Ben W. Olcott.
James Withycombe 
 Oregon State Archives: Withycombe Administration-Photo and public speeches of Governor James Withycombe.
Ben W. Olcott 
 He was educated at a Keithsburg elementary school and a business school in Dixon, later becoming a clerk in Chicago.
Ben W. Olcott 
 In 1891, at age 19, he moved to Salem, Oregon, and became a roommate and good friend of Oswald West.
Ben W. Olcott 
 For nearly 15 years, Olcott travelled throughout the Pacific Northwest, mostly in order to prospect for gold.
Ben W. Olcott 
 His trips would take him to Southern Oregon (1892-93 accompanied by Oswald West), back to Salem to become a bank teller (1893-1895), Northern Washington and British Columbia (1895-1897), and then back to Illinois for a career as a bank cashier.
Ben W. Olcott 
 His journey ended notably when he drove a dog sled team to Nome, a trip of over 1,000 miles up the Yukon and Tanna Rivers in the height of winter.
Ben W. Olcott 
 He became more interested in the political process, and was appointed by Governor Chamberlain to oversee the state's interest in a failed Portland bank, which held a large ammount of state school funds.
Ben W. Olcott 
 Although he was a Republican, and West was a Democrat, the two had a strong friendship which transcended politics.
Ben W. Olcott 
 Olcott ran West's victorious 1910 gubernatorial campaign, and contributed $1,500 to his friend's effort.
Ben W. Olcott 
 In 1911, during Oswald West's Governorship, Secretary of State and former Governor Frank W. Benson, died of illness.
Ben W. Olcott 
 Despite being from an opposing party, West appointed Olcott as Secretary of State to fill out the rest of Benson's term.
Ben W. Olcott 
 On March 3, 1919, Governor James Withycombe died after serving only two months of his second term in office due to heart complications.
Ben W. Olcott 
 Ben Olcott, as Secretary of State, assumed the Governorship under the state's gubernatorial line of sucession.
Ben W. Olcott 
 Withycombe was so widely respected that Olcott refused to be sworn in until after the late Governor's funeral.
Ben W. Olcott 
 Today's policy of leaving a protected buffer of forested land around state highways was instituted under the Olcott Administration.
Ben W. Olcott 
 The growing power of the Ku Klux Klan in Oregon alarmed Governor Olcott, who did not hesitate to denounce the organization.
Ben W. Olcott 
 Olcott narrowly won the Republican nomination, but lost the general election to the Klan-supported, Democratic Senate President Walter M. Pierce.
Ben W. Olcott 
 After his electoral defeat, Olcott left Oregon to manage the Long Beach, California branch of the Bank of Italy.
Ben W. Olcott 
 Oregon State Archives: Olcott Administration-Photo and some public speeches of Governor Ben W. Olcott.
Walter M. Pierce 
 Walter Marcus Pierce (May 30, 1861 - March 27, 1954) was an American politician, a Democrat, who served most notably as the 17th Governor of Oregon and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 2nd Congressional District.
Walter M. Pierce 
 Pierce was born to Charles M. and Charlotte L. (née Clapp) Pierce, Jacksonian Democrat farmers in Morris, Illinois on May 30, 1861.
Walter M. Pierce 
 The ideas of Manifest Destiny as espoused by Horace Greeley, influenced Pierce to move west in 1883.
Walter M. Pierce 
 After a time working the wheat fields of eastern Washington Territory, he earned enough money to finally settle in Milton, Oregon in Umatilla County.
Walter M. Pierce 
 He became well known for his pro-temperance views, as he regularly spoke out against saloons selling alcohol to his students.
Walter M. Pierce 
 In 1887, he married one of his students, Clara R. Rudio, who would die during childbirth only three years later.
Walter M. Pierce 
 From 1890 until 1894, he served as Umatilla County Clerk, a prosperous time in which he earned enough money from land transactions to further his education.
Walter M. Pierce 
 He then returned to Illinois with his family to attend Northwestern University, earning his Bachelors of Law degree in 1896.
Walter M. Pierce 
 After graduation, the Pierce family returned to Oregon, where Walter set up a successful law firm in Pendleton.
Walter M. Pierce 
 Between 1896 and 1906, he would manage a power company, speculate in land, and become one of the state's most renowned Hereford Cattle breeders.
Walter M. Pierce 
 In his first term in the Senate, he unsuccessfully attempted to win passage of prohibition legislation, while successfully winning passage of a state subsidy of $6 per child for education.
Walter M. Pierce 
 He was defeated at the polls for reelection, and retired from politics for a decade beginning in 1906.
Walter M. Pierce 
 He took part in founding the Oregon Farmer's Union and the Public Power League, headed the State Taxpayers League, and took a seat on the board of Regents of Oregon Agricultural College from 1905 to 1927.
Walter M. Pierce 
 Pierce attempted a run for the Democratic nomination for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1912, losing to Harry Lane in the general election.
Walter M. Pierce 
 Pierce then unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Governor James Withycombe in 1918 as a progressive Democrat.
Walter M. Pierce 
 At the time, the Klan was growing in influence and power across the state, and had crafted an overtly anti-catholic and anti-sematic Cumpulsory School Bill.
Walter M. Pierce 
 Pierce had no such qualms, but was instructed by his advisors to not acknowledge any ties to the Klan.
Walter M. Pierce 
 He lent his support to the school bil, and was swept into office with the largest margin of victory recorded in an Oregon Governor's race.
Walter M. Pierce 
 His administration was able to continue the road-building policies of the previous two administrations, but could not win passage of a state income tax or assessed value license fees for automobiles.
Walter M. Pierce 
 He attempted to gain support from progressive Republicans on issues of prison reform, reforestation, and hydroelectric development, but divided the state Democratic Party by endorsing Robert M. La Follette for president in 1924.
Walter M. Pierce 
 Upon leaving the Governor's office, Pierce returned to his ranch in Eastern Oregon to reflect upon his future political prospects.
Walter M. Pierce 
 Pierce decided that he wasn't through with politics, and unsuccessfully ran for the 2nd Congressional District seat in 1928.
Walter M. Pierce 
 This same year, he married Cornelia Marvin, the first State Librarian of Oregon, his third and final wife.
Walter M. Pierce 
 He was elected amid exitement over the landslide Presidential election victory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Walter M. Pierce 
 Pierce would become a staunch supporter of FDR's New Deal, serving in Congress until his electoral defeat in 1943.
Walter M. Pierce 
 Oregon State Archives: Pierce Administration-Photo and some public speeches of Walter M. Pierce as Governor.
I. L. Patterson 
 Isaac Lee "Ike" Patterson, (September 17, 1859 - December 21, 1929) was a Republican Governor of Oregon from 1927 to 1929.
I. L. Patterson 
 Patterson was born on his family's "King's Valley" estate in Rural Benton County, Oregon September 17, 1859.
I. L. Patterson 
 His parrents were emigrants to the Oregon Territory, having made the overland trip from their previous home of Bellvue, Illinois.
I. L. Patterson 
 Patterson supported himself as a grocery clerk in Independence, later earning his way into a position there as a business partner.
I. L. Patterson 
 In 1898, Patterson entered politics, gaining election to a seat in the Oregon State Senate representing Marion County.
I. L. Patterson 
 At the time, he was one of the youngest State Legislators ever elected, having been sworn in at age 32.
I. L. Patterson 
 President William McKinley appointed Patterson to the post of Collector of Customs, Portland District in 1898, and was reappointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, serving there until 1906.
I. L. Patterson 
 In 1899, Patterson sold off his share in the grocery store, and purchased a 300 acre ranch in rural Polk County.
I. L. Patterson 
 The farm would prove profitable, and paved the way for Patterson's later venture into a successful wool and hide business in Portland.
I. L. Patterson 
 After serving out his term as Collector of Customs, Patterson managed his business affairs and kept workinng politicaly inside the Republican Party.
I. L. Patterson 
 In 1918, the citizens of Benton and Polk Counties elected him to represent their district, returning him to the State Senate.
I. L. Patterson 
 Patterson attempted to secure the Republican nomination for Governor in 1922, coming in a distant third in the primary in a six-man race.
I. L. Patterson 
 He won the Chairmanship of the Oregon State Republican Party Central Committee in 1924, going on to chair Calvin Coolidge's Presidential campaign in Oregon.
I. L. Patterson 
 Using President Coolidge as an inspiration, Governor Patterson would govern the state in a financialy conservative manner; streamlining agencies of the state and vetoing legislation which would threaten balancing the state's finances.
I. L. Patterson 
 His administration notably continued improving state roads and highways, established the state's system of higher education, and directed the state prison system to house adult and juvinile criminals seperately.
I. L. Patterson 
 He was considered a popular and well-respected figure by rivals and supporters alike, but suddenly died in office of Pneumonia on December 21, 1929.
I. L. Patterson 
 Oregon State Archives: I.L. Patterson Administration-Photo and some public speeches of Governor I.L. Patterson.
A. W. Norblad 
 March 18, 1881-April 17, 1960) was a prominent citizen of Astoria, Oregon and the Republican Governor of Oregon from 1929 to 1931.
A. W. Norblad 
 He was the father of Representative A. Walter Norblad (Albin Walter Norblad, Jr.), Member of the United States House of Representatives, from the 1st Congressional District of Oregon between 1946 and 1964.
A. W. Norblad 
 The family's last name was changed by the Swedish Government to avoid confusion in military records.
A. W. Norblad 
 The family emigrated to the United States while Albin was very young, settling in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A. W. Norblad 
 He would later recount that the most notable jobs held during this time were newsboy, hot dog vendor, and clairinetist for the circuis.
A. W. Norblad 
 He managed to earn enough money to return to Grand Rapids, taking night classes at the Grand Rapids Business College.
A. W. Norblad 
 After earning enough credits there, Norblad was able enroll at the Chicago Law School, supporting himself as a reporter for the Chicago American newspaper's crime beat.
A. W. Norblad 
 While visiting Oregon on business in 1908, Norblad met with an old friend who invited him to live in Astoria.
A. W. Norblad 
 He would also become a member of the local school board, and President of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce.
A. W. Norblad 
 With a prominent local political profile, Norblad went on to run for a seat in the Oregon State Senate, in 1918.
A. W. Norblad 
 He was elected President of the Oregon State Senate in 1927, placing him as second in the state's then-official line of gubernatorial succession.
A. W. Norblad 
 As soon as he was inaugurated, he declared his intent to run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
A. W. Norblad 
 Taking office during the Great Depression, Norblad's first attempts to improve conditions in the state were largely ineffective.
A. W. Norblad 
 Lacking a political identity statewide, and considered a Progressive by conserrvative elements in control of the state Republican party, Norblad was defeated in his primary bid in May 1930, coming in second-place.
A. W. Norblad 
 When the winner of the primary unexpectantly died a month later, Norblad took his name out of the running for the nomination, giving the Republican state central committee his blessing to choose a new candidate.
A. W. Norblad 
 Freed from having to contest an election, Norblad began focusing his attention on the economic situation in the state.
A. W. Norblad 
 In order to put men back to work, he authorized $2 million worth of road construction, and succeeded in employing 5,000 workers.
A. W. Norblad 
 In matters involving the rest of the nation, Norblad accepted federal help in solving a long-simmering dispute between Eastern Oregon's cattle and sheep ranchers.