constituency relations death_date death_place birth_place imagesize office termstart termend birth_date spouse image article_title name
marion county marion county homer davenport 9 january 1895 waldo hills , oregon windham county , connecticut 125px member of the oregon territorial legislature county clerk 1854 july 1868 1855 june 1870 march 13 , 1816 mary catherine willard ralph c. geer.jpg ralph carey geer
 ralph carey geer
ralph carey geer

ralph carey geer -lrb- march 13 , 1816 -- january 9 , 1895 -rrb- 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 .
at times a republican and later a democrat , he served in the oregon house of representatives and as the clerk for the county .
he was related to both homer davenport and t. t. geer .
