Governors of Oregon, 1858-2008(May be incomplete!) JohnWhiteaker 1859-62A.C. Gibbs 1862-66GeorgeL. Woods 1866-70LaFayette Grover 1870-77StephenF. Chadwick 1877-78W.W. Thayer 1878-82ZenasFerry Moody 1882-87SylvesterPennoyer 1887-95WilliamP. Lord 1895-99TheodoreT. Geer 1899-1903GeorgeE. Chamberlain 1903-09FrankW. Benson 1909-10JayBowerman 1910-11OswaldWest 1911-15JamesWithycombe 1915-19BenW. Olcott 1919-23WalterM. Pierce 1923-27I.L. Patterson 1927-29A.W. Norblad 1929-31JuliusL. Meier 1931-35CharlesH. Martin 1935-39CharlesA. Sprague 1939-43EarlSnell 1943-47JohnH. Hall 1947-49DouglasMcKay 1949-52PaulL. Patterson 1952-56ElmoSmith 1956-57RobertD. Holmes 1957-59MarkO. Hatfield 1959-67ThomasLawson McCall 1967-75RobertW. Straub 1975-79VictorAtiyeh 1979-87NeilGoldschmidt 1987-91BarbaraRoberts 1991-95JohnA. Kitzhaber 1995-TedKulongoski 2003-08 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1858:JohnWhiteaker (Dem), elected. 1862:A.C. Gibbs (Rep), elected. 1866:GeorgeL. Woods (Rep), elected. 1870:LaFayette Grover (Dem), elected. 1874:LaFayette Grover (Dem), elected. 1877 Feb 1:LaFayette Grover, resigned. 1878:W.W. Thayer (Dem), elected. 1882:ZenasFerry Moody (Rep), elected;JosephS. Smith (Dem), defeated. 1886:SylvesterPennoyer, elected. 1890:DavidP. Thompson (Rep), defeated;SylvesterPennoyer, elected. 1894:WilliamP. Lord (Rep), elected. 1898:TheodoreT. Geer (Rep), elected;WilliamR. King (Dem), defeated. 1902:GeorgeE. Chamberlain (Dem), elected. 1906:GeorgeE. Chamberlain (Dem), elected. 1906 Jun 4:JamesWithycombe (Rep), defeated in primary. 1909 Feb 28:GeorgeE. Chamberlain, resigned. 1910 Nov 8:OswaldWest (Dem), elected;JayBowerman (Rep), defeated;W.S. Richards (Socialist), defeated;A.E. Eaton (Prohibition), defeated. 1914 Nov 3:JamesWithycombe (Rep), elected;C.J. Smith (Dem), defeated;W.J. Smith (Socialist), defeated;W.S. U'Ren (Ind), defeated;F.M. Gill (Progressive), defeated;WillE. Purdy (Nonpartisan), defeated. 1918 Nov 5:JamesWithycombe (Rep), elected;WalterM. Pierce (Dem), defeated;B.F. Ramp (Socialist), defeated. 1919 Mar 3:JamesWithycombe, died in office. 1922 Nov 7:WalterM. Pierce (Dem), elected;BenW. Olcott (Rep), defeated. 1926 Nov 2:I.L. Patterson (Rep), elected;WalterM. Pierce (Dem), defeated;H.H. Stallard (Ind), defeated. 1929 Dec 21:I.L. Patterson, died in office. 1930 Nov 4:JuliusL. Meier (Ind), elected;EdwardF. Bailey (Dem), defeated;PhilMetschan, Jr. (Rep), defeated;AlbertStreiff (Socialist), defeated. 1934:CharlesH. Martin (Dem), elected. 1938 May 20:HenryL. Hess (Dem), nominated;CharlesH. Martin (Dem), defeated in primary;O.Henry Oleen (Dem), defeated in primary. 1938 May 20:CharlesA. Sprague (Rep), nominated;SamH. Brown (Rep), defeated in primary;ClarenceR. Wagoner (Rep), defeated in primary;CharlesL. Paine (Rep), defeated in primary;HenryM. Hanzen (Rep), defeated in primary;J.W. Morton (Rep), defeated in primary;M.S. Schrock (Rep), defeated in primary;R.J. Hendricks (Rep), defeated in primary. 1938 Nov 8:CharlesA. Sprague (Rep), elected;HenryL. Hess (Dem), defeated. 1942:EarlSnell (Rep), elected;LewWallace (Dem), defeated. 1946:EarlSnell (Rep), elected. 1947 Oct 28:EarlSnell, died in office. 1948:DouglasMcKay (Rep), elected;LewWallace (Dem), defeated. 1950:DouglasMcKay (Rep), elected. 1952 Dec 27:DouglasMcKay, resigned. 1954 Nov 2:PaulL. Patterson (Rep), elected;JosephK. Carson, Jr. (Dem), defeated. 1956 Jan 31:PaulL. Patterson, died in office. 1956 May 18:ElmoSmith (Rep), nominated. 1956 Nov 6:RobertD. Holmes (Dem), elected;ElmoSmith (Rep), defeated. 1958:MarkO. Hatfield (Rep), elected. 1962:MarkO. Hatfield (Rep), elected. 1962 May 18:DanielN. Cox (Dem), defeated in primary. 1962 May 18:HerbertGeorge Altvater (Rep), defeated in primary. 1966:RobertW. Straub, defeated. 1974:RobertW. Straub, elected;VictorAtiyeh (Rep), defeated. 1978:RobertW. Straub, defeated. 1982 May 18:WalterHuss (Rep), defeated in primary. 1998 May 23:WalterHuss (Rep), defeated in primary. | |