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Former Oregon Gov. Neil Goldschmidt, who as mayor of Portland was credited with starting the city on its path to becoming a magnet for the young, hip and liberal but whose reputation unraveled ...
On March 7, 2011, the Oregon Senate President and Co-Speakers of the House released a statement that Goldschmidt's Governor's portrait had been removed from the walls of the State Capitol building in Salem and put into storage, out of respect for his victim, Elizabeth Lynn Dunham, who died from cancer on January 16, 2011, at the age of 49. [58]
The state of Oregon was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859. [26] The 1857 Constitution of Oregon provided for the election of a governor every four years, to serve no more than eight out of any twelve years. [27] This length and limit have never been changed. It is one of the few states without a lieutenant governor.
Oregon: March 3, 1919 64 heart condition Salem, Oregon: City View Cemetery, Salem, Oregon: Ernest Lister: Democrat: ... List of United States governors who died in ...
John Albert Kitzhaber (born March 5, 1947) is an American former politician and physician who served as the 35th and 37th governor of Oregon from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2011 to 2015. In February 2015, shortly after beginning his fourth term, Kitzhaber resigned from office and was replaced by Secretary of State Kate Brown .
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.
On September 8, 1998, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber appointed Riggs as the ninety-fourth justice to the state supreme court. [6] [7] He replaced Susan P. Graber who had resigned in April. [7] That fall Riggs won election to a full six-year term, and then re-election in 2004. [7] While on the court he authored the majority opinion in State v.
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