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    The Provisional Government of Oregon was a popularly elected settler government created in the Oregon Country, in the Pacific Northwest region of North...
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  • A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, a transitional government or provisional leadership, is a temporary...
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    The Russian Provisional Government was a provisional government of the Russian Empire and Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately...
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    The Provisional Legislature of Oregon was the single-chamber legislative body of the Provisional Government of Oregon. It served the Oregon Country of the...
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    occupancy" of the land west of the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. In 1843, settlers established their government, called the Provisional Government of Oregon. A...
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    William Cannon (pioneer) (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    who voted in favor of forming a provisional government in the Oregon Country. Cannon died in 1854 and was buried at St. Paul, Oregon. Laidlaw, Tom (2005)...
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  • of the Provisional Government of Oregon. In 1846, the Oregon boundary dispute between the U.S. and Britain was settled with the signing of the Oregon...
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  • state of Oregon. The first such law took effect in 1844, when the Provisional Government of Oregon voted to exclude black settlers from Oregon's borders...
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    Joseph Meek (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    at meetings in Champoeg, Oregon called to form a provisional government, his was one of the foremost voices on the side of the American settlers. In...
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    state of Washington has 39 counties. The Provisional Government of Oregon established Vancouver and Lewis Counties in 1845 in unorganized Oregon Country...
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    renamed for William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1849. It was created by the Provisional Government of Oregon in Oregon Country on August 20...
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  • years the Provisional Government of Oregon and later the United States Army battled the Native Americans east of the Cascades. This was the first of several...
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    George Abernethy (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    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...
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    Retrieved July 11, 2022. Oregon Legislative Assembly History. Oregon State Archives. Accessed February 17, 2012. The History of Pennsylvania's Capital....
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    James Nesmith (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    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...
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    Asa Lovejoy (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    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...
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    a colonel who commanded the forces of the provisional government of Oregon after the Whitman Massacre. The Oregon Legislative Assembly created Gilliam...
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    Stephen Meek (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    California with Thomas McKay. In 1841, Meek bought the first lot of the Oregon City, Oregon, townsite from John McLoughlin, and helped to survey the land...
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  • of the state. These include judges that served prior to statehood on February 14, 1859, including the judges of the Provisional Government of Oregon....
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    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...
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    Peter Hardeman Burnett (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    in Oregon Country, he became Supreme Judge of the Provisional Government of Oregon. While in Oregon politics, he pushed for the total exclusion of African-Americans...
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    John H. Couch (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    2019-01-10. Brown, J. Henry (1892). Brown's Political History of Oregon: Provisional Government. Wiley B. Allen. Portland Public Schools Board Members 1851...
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    of a government in the Oregon Country. At the last Champoeg Meeting in May 1843, the majority voted to create what became the Provisional Government of...
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    Samuel Thurston (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    (1893). An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon. The Lewis Publishing Co.: Chicago. Oregon State Archives: Provisional Legislature Mclagan, Elizabeth...
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  • Ewing Young (category People from Oregon Country)
    citizen in Oregon, his death was the impetus for the assemblies that several years later established the Provisional Government of Oregon. Ewing Young...
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  • Peter G. Stewart (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    first in Oregon City and later in what became Washington. He was served on the Second Executive Committee of the Provisional Government of Oregon, and his...
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  • American pioneer and settler of what became Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. He served in the Provisional Government of Oregon in both the executive and...
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    Ralph Wilcox (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    Portland, Oregon. He also served in the Provisional Government of Oregon, was a legislator during both the territorial period and when Oregon became a...
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    Jesse Quinn Thornton (category Republican Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives)
    settler of Oregon, active in political, legal, and educational circles. He served as the 6th Supreme Judge of the Provisional Government of Oregon, presented...
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    1849." Oregon Historical Quarterly 33, No. 1 (1932), pp. 25-30 Brown, Henry J. Brown's Political History of Oregon: Provisional Government. Portland...
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