Notable Alumni of Willamette University [Sorted List]

1. George M. Brown

1864-1934 (aged 70)

lawyer judge

George M. Brown was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. He was the 50th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and the 5th attorney general of the state from 1915 to 1920. An Oregon born and educated attorney, he previously worked as a district attorney in Southern Oregon.

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2. Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle

1835-1894 (aged 59)

writer physician

Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle was an American medical doctor who worked primarily in Oregon. She was also a proponent of women's rights and the editor of the Medico-Literary Journal.

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3. M. Ella Whipple

1851-1924 (aged 73)

physician

M. Ella Whipple was an American physician.

4. Levi L. Rowland

1831-1908 (aged 77)

Levi Lindsey Rowland FRSE was an American educator and physician in the state of Oregon. A native of Tennessee, he served as the Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction, president of what became Western Oregon University, and as the superintendent of Oregon's insane asylum, now the Oregon State Hospital. The Republican was also a pastor and farmer.

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5. Hallie Parrish Hinges

1868-1950 (aged 82)

singer

Hallie Parrish Hinges was an American singer nicknamed "The Oregon Nightingale". She performed for many notable people, including presidents Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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6. John W. Reynolds

1875-1942 (aged 67)

lawyer

John W. Reynolds was an American attorney and educator in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of the state, he was the fourth dean of the Willamette University College of Law, the law school of his alma mater.

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7. Walter C. Winslow

1882-1962 (aged 80)

lawyer judge

Walter Clarence Winslow was an American attorney in Oregon. A native of the state, he practiced law in Salem and later served temporarily on the Oregon Supreme Court. In legal practice he worked for brothers John Hugh McNary and Charles L. McNary in his early years as a lawyer.

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8. Sylvester C. Simpson

1844-1913 (aged 69)

lawyer politician

Sylvester Confucius Simpson was an American educator and attorney in the state of Oregon. A native of Missouri, he served as the first Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction and was later the secretary to Oregon Governor Stephen F. Chadwick before moving to California. A Democrat, he also served as the chief clerk in the Oregon State Senate.

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9. Samuel T. Richardson

1857-1921 (aged 64)

lawyer

Samuel Thurston Richardson was an American attorney and educator in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he was the third dean of the Willamette University College of Law, his alma mater. He also founded the Oregon Law School (not the University of Oregon School of Law) that existed from 1902 until 1922.

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10. E. M. Page

1893-1959 (aged 66)

lawyer judge

Everil Max "E.M." Page was an American lawyer and judge in the state of Oregon. He was appointed as the 63rd justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving for less than a year between 1949 and 1950.

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11. Parish L. Willis

1838-1917 (aged 79)

librarian lawyer politician

Parish Lovejoy Willis was an American attorney and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he served as cavalry in the Rogue River War before becoming a lawyer. A Republican, he served one term in the Oregon State Senate in the early 1890s.

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12. Daniel Jones

1830-1891 (aged 61)

minister

Daniel Jones was a Methodist Episcopal minister (M.E.) in Oregon and other regions of the United States. He was the first African American to attend Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He was a leader in the M.E. church and was presiding elder of the Lexington, Kentucky, district.

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13. Winifred Byrd

1884-1970 (aged 86)

music educator pianist

Winifred Byrd was an American concert pianist and educator.

14. Loyal B. Stearns

1853-1936 (aged 83)

lawyer judge politician

Loyal B. Stearns was an American politician, attorney, and jurist in Oregon. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Oregon, he became a lawyer and practiced in Portland. A Republican, he was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and later a judge for several courts.

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15. John McCourt

1874-1924 (aged 50)

lawyer judge politician

John McCourt was an American attorney and jurist in the state of Oregon. He served as the 51st justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Prior to joining the court, McCourt had worked as United States District Attorney for the District of Oregon. A native of Canada, he was also a state court judge and member of the Oregon House of...

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16. Berkeley Lent

1921-2007 (aged 86)

lawyer judge politician

Berkeley "Bud" Lent was an American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon. He was the 38th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving from 1982 to 1983. Elected to the court in 1976, Lent remained until 1988. Previously, the native Oregonian also was elected to both branches of the Oregon legislature, including time as the Senate Majority...

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17. Winlock W. Steiwer

1852-1920 (aged 68)

politician

Winlock W. Steiwer was an American banker, rancher, and politician in the state of Oregon. Born in the Willamette Valley, he made his name in Eastern Oregon as the founder of a bank and as county judge. A Republican, he twice served in the Oregon State Senate. He pleaded guilty in the Oregon land fraud scandal of the early 1900s.

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18. Robert Eakin

1848-1917 (aged 69)

lawyer judge

Robert Eakin was an American judge and attorney in the state of Oregon. He served as the 19th Chief Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court. Eakin was the head judge of the court from 1911 to 1913, and was on the court overall from 1907 until 1917.

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19. Charles B. Bellinger

1839-1905 (aged 66)

lawyer judge politician

Charles Byron Bellinger was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland, Oregon. A native of Illinois, he also served as a state circuit court judge in Oregon, fought in the Modoc War in 1873, and was a newspaper editor. Politically, he previously served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and...

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20. Charles B. Moores

1849-1930 (aged 81)

politician

Charles Bruce Moores was an American businessman and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Missouri, he came from a family of politicians including his father John H. Moores, his grandfather Isaac R. Moores, and uncle Isaac R. Moores, Jr. who all served in the Oregon Legislature. A Republican, he served as the Speaker of the Oregon House...

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21. Isaac Homer Van Winkle

1870-1943 (aged 73)

lawyer

Isaac Homer Van Winkle was an American attorney in the state of Oregon. A former dean of Willamette University's law school, he served as the 6th Attorney General of Oregon for 23 years.

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22. John Hugh McNary

1867-1936 (aged 69)

lawyer judge

John Hugh McNary was an American attorney and jurist in the state of Oregon. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland. A native of Oregon, he also served as a district attorney and as an assistant district attorney in Salem. His brother Charles would serve as...

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23. Wallace P. Carson, Jr

1934-. (aged 92)

lawyer judge politician

Wallace Preston Carson Jr. is an American attorney and politician from Oregon. He has spent time in both of Oregon's legislative branches and served on the Oregon Supreme Court for 24 years. Carson's fourteen-year tenure as chief justice was longer than that of any of his predecessors.

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24. Charles S. Moore

1857-1915 (aged 58)

lawyer judge politician

Charles Sumner Moore was an American businessman and politician from the state of Oregon. A native of the Pacific Northwest, he held several elected offices in Klamath County, including serving as county judge. A member of the Republican Party, Moore served as Oregon State Treasurer from 1899 to 1907.

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25. Albin W. Norblad

1939-2014 (aged 75)

lawyer judge

Albin Walter Norblad III was an attorney in the U.S. state of Oregon, and a judge of the Oregon Circuit Court for the 3rd judicial district, in Marion County at Salem. He was named for his father, A. Walter Norblad, and grandfather, A. W. Norblad, both prominent Oregon attorneys and politicians.

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26. Bert E. Haney

1879-1943 (aged 64)

lawyer judge

Bert Emory Haney was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

27. Charles A. Johns

1857-1932 (aged 75)

lawyer judge

Charles A. Johns was an American lawyer, jurist and politician who served as the 47th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Johns also served as mayor of Baker City in Eastern Oregon and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines while that archipelago was under U.S. jurisdiction.

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28. Melvin Clark George

1849-1933 (aged 84)

lawyer judge university teacher politician

Melvin Clark George was an American lawyer, educator, and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Oregon from 1881 to 1885.

29. John B. Waldo

1844-1907 (aged 63)

lawyer judge politician

John Breckenridge Waldo was an American politician and jurist from the state of Oregon. A native of Oregon, he grew up near Salem as part of a prominent pioneer political family that included father Daniel and brother William. A trained lawyer, he was elected to the Oregon Supreme Court and served for one term from 1880 to 1886, including as...

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30. Thomas Hemingway

military officer

Brigadier General Thomas Hemingway is an American military lawyer who has served as a legal advisor to the Office of Military Commissions. Thomas Hemingway was a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in November 1962 after earning his undergraduate degree at Willamette University. Upon graduation, he took an educational delay and earned...

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31. L. B. Day

1932-1986 (aged 54)

politician

L. B. Day was an American labor union leader and elected official in the state of Oregon. Day served as an International Brotherhood of Teamsters official, state representative, state senator, and appointed official in both the Oregon state executive office and the U.S. Department of the Interior. A longtime supporter of the Oregon State Fair, the L. B. Day Comcast...

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32. John N. Williamson

1855-1943 (aged 88)

politician

John Newton Williamson was an American rancher and politician in the state of Oregon. A native Oregonian, he served in both chambers of the Oregon Legislative Assembly representing central and eastern Oregon in the late 19th century. A Republican, he then served in Congress from 1903 to 1907 and was involved in the Oregon land fraud scandal.

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33. Leon Rene Yankwich

1888-1975 (aged 87)

lawyer judge

Leon Rene Yankwich was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

34. Carla Piluso

politician

Carla Piluso is an American politician and former police officer. She was the first woman to serve as chief of the Gresham Police Department in Gresham, Oregon. In 2014, she won election as a Democrat to the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 50. Piluso served in the Gresham Police Department for 30 years, beginning in 1979. She is also...

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35. Joseph K. Gill

1841-1931 (aged 90)

businessperson

Joseph Kaye "J.K." Gill was an English-born American retailer and publisher in the state of Oregon. A native of England, he came to the United States with his parents and settled in Oregon where he managed a bookstore in Salem. Later he entered the business and became the owner of the now-defunct J. K. Gill Company that operated in the...

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36. Andy Tillman

1952-. (aged 74)

Andrew Charles Tillman is one of the founders of the llama industry in the United States. He is an expert on llama and alpaca health, selective breeding, and marketing. Tillman is the co-founder of the International Llama Association, and he wrote the halter-class guidelines for the American Llama Show Association. His book, Speechless Brothers, was the first comprehensive study of...

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37. Gordon Faber

1931-2014 (aged 83)

politician

Gordon C. Faber was an American politician and businessman in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he grew up in Hillsboro, Oregon. He joined the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and was a small business owner before becoming a real estate agent and entering politics. He served on Hillsboro's budget committee and city council before...

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38. Larry Phillips

1951-. (aged 75)

politician

Lawrence R. Phillips is an American politician who served as a member of the King County Council in State of Washington. Phillips served on the council from 1992 to 2016, representing the fourth district, which includes the Seattle neighborhoods of Queen Anne, Magnolia, Ballard, Fremont, Belltown, South Lake Union, and Downtown. He served as chair of the council from 2004...

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39. James Martin Fitzgerald

1920-2011 (aged 91)

lawyer judge

James Martin Fitzgerald was an American lawyer and judge. He served as an associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from 1972 to 1975, and resigned that position when he was appointed to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska.

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40. Robert M. Sayre

1924-2016 (aged 92)

diplomat military personnel

Robert Marion Sayre was a United States State Department official and ambassador to Brazil, Panama and Uruguay. A career foreign service officer specializing in Latin American affairs, Sayre served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay from 1968 to 1969, Ambassador to Panama from 1969 to 1974, and Ambassador to Brazil from 1978 to 1981. He also held the position...

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41. Nancy Ryles

1937-1990 (aged 53)

politician

Nancy Ann Ryles was an American politician. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives, the Oregon Senate and as one of three members of the state's Public Utility Commission. She was known as an advocate for education and for equality for women and minorities. An elementary school in Beaverton is named after her.

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42. Merrill Moores

1856-1929 (aged 73)

lawyer writer politician

Merrill Moores was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1915 to 1925.

43. Horace P. Belknap

1856-1936 (aged 80)

politician physician

Horace Preston Belknap was an American pioneer medical doctor, businessman, and a state legislator from the state of Oregon. Belknap was one of the first physicians to establish a medical practice in Central Oregon. He also served three terms in the Oregon House of Representatives as a Republican legislator, representing a large and rural district in central and southern Oregon.

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44. Benjamin Hale Settle

1947-. (aged 79)

lawyer judge

Benjamin Hale Settle is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.

45. Chuck Thomsen

1957-. (aged 69)

horticulturist politician

Charles William Thomsen is an American politician. From 2011 to 2023, he served as a Republican in the Oregon Senate representing District 26, which includes all of Hood River County and parts of eastern Multnomah County and northeastern Clackamas County.

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46. Paul De Muniz

1947-. (aged 79)

jurist lawyer judge university teacher

Paul J. De Muniz is a retired American judge in the state of Oregon. He is the first Hispanic Chief Justice in the history of the Oregon Supreme Court. He was elected to the court in 2000, and elected as chief justice in 2006. He won re-election in May 2006 for another six-year term on the state's highest court. De...

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47. James W. Mott

1883-1945 (aged 62)

lawyer politician

James Wheaton Mott was a U.S. representative from Oregon. A graduate of Columbia University and Willamette University's law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter, city attorney, and was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives.

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48. Rich Vial

politician

Armand Richard Vial is an American lawyer, farmer, small business owner, and Nonpartisan candidate for Oregon's State Senate District 18, which covers parts of Washington County, in the November 2022 midterm election. He previously served in the Oregon House of Representatives in 2016 representing the 26th district. He has served in the state legislature as a Republican.

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49. Patricia Price

musician

Patricia Price is managing director and co-founder of the global public relations and digital marketing firm 8VA Music Consultancy. Price was previously the executive director of Portland Piano International and the Classical Product Manager for Allegro Media Group managing classical record labels.

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50. Greg Zerzan

teacher

Gregory Zerzan is an attorney and former acting assistant secretary of the U.S Treasury under President George W. Bush. He has held several prominent posts in government and is a frequent speaker on markets and public policy matters.

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51. Robert Freeman Smith

1931-2020 (aged 89)

politician

Robert Freeman "Bob" Smith was an American politician from Oregon. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and again from 1997 to 1999.

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52. Theodore Thurston Geer

1851-1924 (aged 73)

journalist politician

Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Governor of Oregon (the first born in the territory of the state), serving from January 9, 1899, to January 14, 1903. The Republican politician was in office when the legislature adopted the "Oregon System", Oregon's system of initiative and referendum. He also served in the Oregon House of Representatives, including time as its Speaker.

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53. Bob Mionske

1962-. (aged 64)

lawyer sport cyclist

Robert Charles Mionske (born August 26, 1962) is a two-time U.S. Olympic racing cyclist (1988 and 1992) and U.S. National Champion (1990). In the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul, South Korea, he placed fourth in the Individual Road Race. He retired from professional cycling in 1993 and is now an attorney based in Portland, Oregon, with a practice in...

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54. Bruce Botelho

1948-. (aged 78)

lawyer politician

Bruce M. Botelho is an American attorney and politician in the U.S. state of Alaska. He served as the mayor of Juneau from 1988 to 1991 and from 2003 to 2012. Born and raised in Juneau, where his father was a top official of the Alaska Highway Patrol, Botelho has pursued concurrent careers in law and politics, largely with success....

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55. Fern Hobbs

1883-1964 (aged 81)

lawyer

Fern Hobbs was an American attorney in the U.S. state of Oregon, and private secretary to Oregon Governor Oswald West. She was noted for her ambition and several accomplishments as a young woman, and became the highest-paid woman in public service in America in her mid-twenties.

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56. David Gomberg

1953-. (aged 73)

politician

David William Gomberg is a Democratic member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 10 on the state's central coast since January 14, 2013. Prior to his election to the legislature, he was co-owner of a kite design, manufacturing, and sales business.

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57. Scotty Iseri

1979-. (aged 47)

video game developer artist

Scotty Iseri is an American web series and mobile application creator and director, as well as a freelance sound designer, producer, and theater artist. Iseri's web series, Scotty Got an Office Job brought him to national prominence in which he secretly filmed the goings-on in his office job in Chicago. "Using a Flip camera and his laptop’s webcam, Iseri manages...

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58. Sandy Baruah

1965-. (aged 61)

politician

Santanu K. "Sandy" Baruah is an American politician from the state of Oregon and is the president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Regional Chamber.

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59. Frank K. Wheaton

1951-. (aged 75)

television producer television actor lawyer actor

Frankert Kahlil Wheaton is an American attorney, agent, and actor.

60. Amanda Marshall

lawyer politician

Sally Amanda Marshall is an American lawyer in the U.S. state of Oregon. She was, most immediately, the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, the top federal prosecutor position in the state. She resigned her position on April 24, 2015, amid an internal review, citing unspecified health issues.

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61. Billy J. Williams

1956-. (aged 70)

lawyer

Billy John Williams is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney for the District of Oregon from 2015 to 2021. He was most recently confirmed to the position by the U.S. Senate in March 2018. Williams was originally named Acting U.S. Attorney of the district in April 2015 and was appointed to the position by Chief U.S....

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62. Lesil McGuire

1971-. (aged 55)

politician

Lesil Lynn McGuire is an American politician in the state of Alaska. She served as a Republican member of the Alaska Senate from 2007 until 2017, after her tenure as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 2000 through 2006. She served Senate District N until redistricting in 2012 placed her in District K for 2013.

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63. Douglas H. Bosco

1946-. (aged 80)

lawyer journalist editor politician

Douglas Harry Bosco is an American lawyer, politician, and newspaper owner from California. He is a former U.S. representative, serving four terms as a Democrat from 1983 to 1991.

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64. Jeff Kruse

1951-. (aged 75)

politician

Jeff Kruse is a former Republican member of the Oregon Senate, representing the 1st District from 1996 until his resignation for sexual harassment in 2018.

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65. Kevin Clarkson

1959-. (aged 67)

Kevin G. Clarkson is an American attorney from the state of Alaska who was the 32nd Alaska Attorney General from 2018 to 2020.

66. Jennifer Williamson

politician

Jennifer Williamson is an American attorney, Democratic politician, and political strategist who represented Oregon's 36th District in the Oregon House of Representatives. She served as Majority Leader from 2015 to 2019.

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67. Conde Balcom McCullough

1887-1946 (aged 59)

university teacher lawyer architect engineer civil engineer

Conde Balcom McCullough was an American civil engineer who is primarily known for designing many of Oregon's coastal bridges on U.S. Route 101. The native of South Dakota worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation from 1919 to 1935 and 1937 until he died in 1946. McCullough also was a professor at Oregon State University.

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68. John Haglelgam

1949-2024 (aged 75)

politician

John Richard Haglelgam was a Micronesian politician who served as the second President of the Federated States of Micronesia.

69. Chuck Bennett

1948-. (aged 78)

politician

Chuck Bennett is an American politician who formerly served as mayor of Salem, Oregon, and is a former state representative.

70. James F. Albaugh

1958-. (aged 68)

businessperson

James F. Albaugh is the former executive vice president of The Boeing Company and chief executive officer of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes business unit. He served in these capacities for Boeing Commercial Airplanes from September 1, 2009, until his retirement on June 26, 2012. He retired from the company on October 1, 2012. He previously served as president and chief...

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71. Denny Smith

1938-. (aged 88)

military officer aircraft pilot politician

Dennis Alan Smith is an American businessman, publisher, Vietnam War veteran, and former United States congressman from the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he served in the Air Force before working in the airline industry and taking over the family's newspaper business. A Republican, he served 5 terms in Congress from 1981 until 1991. His father was...

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72. Harry Lane

1855-1917 (aged 62)

politician physician

Harry Lane was an American politician in the state of Oregon. A physician by training, Lane served as the head of the Oregon State Insane Asylum before being forced out by political enemies. After a decade practicing medicine, the progressive Democrat won election as the mayor of Portland in 1905, gaining re-election in 1907. Lane's tenure in office was largely...

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73. Frederick Schwatka

1849-1892 (aged 43)

writer explorer botanist physician

Frederick Gustavus Schwatka was a United States Army lieutenant with degrees in medicine and law, and was a noted explorer of northern Canada and Alaska.

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74. Joshua M. Kindred

1977-. (aged 49)

lawyer

Joshua Michael Kindred is an American former lawyer and former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. He served on the court from 2020 to 2024. He resigned after being accused of sexual misconduct and was subsequently disbarred.

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75. Edith Green

1910-1987 (aged 77)

teacher politician

Edith Louise Starrett Green was an American politician and educator from Oregon. She was the second Oregonian woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served a total of ten terms, from 1955 to 1974, as a Democrat.

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76. Jay Bowerman

1876-1957 (aged 81)

lawyer politician

Jay Bowerman was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 13th Governor of Oregon, for the final few months of the term of Frank Benson, who retired due to illness.

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77. Vic Snyder

1947-. (aged 79)

politician physician

Victor Frederick Snyder is an American physician, lawyer, and politician who was the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district from 1997 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War at the rank of corporal.

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78. Norma Paulus

1933-2019 (aged 86)

lawyer politician

Norma Jean Paulus was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Nebraska, she was raised in Eastern Oregon before becoming a lawyer. A Republican, she first held political office as a representative in the Oregon House of Representatives, and then became the first woman elected to statewide public office in Oregon when she became...

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79. Shemia Fagan

1981-. (aged 45)

teacher lawyer politician

Shemia Patricia Fagan is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Oregon secretary of state from 2021 to 2023. She previously served as a Democratic member of the Oregon Senate, representing Senate District 24 from in 2019 to 2021. She also represented House District 51 from 2013 to 2017. In 2020, Fagan was elected as Oregon Secretary of...

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80. Willis C. Hawley

1864-1941 (aged 77)

lawyer politician

Willis Chatman Hawley was an American politician and educator in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he served as the president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he earned his undergraduate and law degrees before entering politics. A Republican, he served 13 terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon, from...

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81. Sam Farr

1941-. (aged 85)

Peace Corps politician

Samuel Sharon Farr is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for California's 17th (1993–2013) and 20th congressional districts (2013–17). He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected to Congress in a 1993 special election when longtime Democratic Rep. Leon Panetta resigned to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He retired from Congress...

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82. Tobias Read

1975-. (aged 51)

politician

Tobias Read is an American politician who is currently serving as the 30th Oregon Secretary of State since 2025. As a member of the Democratic Party he served as the 29th Oregon State Treasurer from 2017 to 2025. Before that, he was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing the 27th district from 2007 to 2017, which comprised...

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83. Bob Packwood

1932-. (aged 94)

lawyer member politician

Robert William Packwood is an American retired lawyer and politician from Oregon who served as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives representing the 6th district from 1963 to 1969 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1969 to 1995. He resigned from the U.S. Senate under threat of expulsion, in 1995 after allegations of sexual...

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84. Neil Everett

1962-. (aged 64)

journalist

Neil Everett Morfitt is an American sportscaster. From 2009 until 2023, he was the co-anchor of the late-night Los Angeles edition of SportsCenter alongside Stan Verrett. He served as the Television Studio Host on the broadcast team of the Portland Trail Blazers for four NBA seasons from 2021 to 2025.

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85. Charles L. McNary

1874-1944 (aged 70)

lawyer judge politician prosecutor

Charles Linza McNary was an American Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Senate Minority Leader from 1933 to 1944. In the Senate, McNary helped to pass legislation that led to the construction of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, and worked on agricultural and forestry issues. He also supported many...

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86. Lisa Murkowski

1957-. (aged 69)

lawyer politician

Lisa Ann Murkowski is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from the state of Alaska, having held the seat since 2002. She is the first woman to represent Alaska in the U.S. Congress and is the Senate's second-most senior Republican woman. Murkowski became dean of Alaska's congressional delegation upon Representative Don Young's death.

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87. Nick Symmonds

1983-. (aged 43)

athletics competitor middle-distance runner

Nicholas Boone Symmonds is an American YouTube personality and retired middle-distance runner from Boise, Idaho, who specialized in the 800 meters and 1500 meters. At Willamette University, he won seven NCAA Division III titles outdoors. Symmonds is a 6-time US national 800 meters champion. He has competed in the 800m at two Olympic Games, reaching the semi-finals in Beijing 2008,...

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88. Punit Renjen

1961-. (aged 65)

businessperson chief executive officer

Punit Renjen is an Indian-American businessman who has been chief executive officer of the multinational professional services firm Deloitte since June 1, 2015. Previously, Renjen was chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP, and later, held the role of chairman of Deloitte LLP (United States) from 2011 to 2015. Effective December 31, 2022, Renjen became Global CEO Emeritus of Deloitte.

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89. Stan Bunn

1946-. (aged 80)

lawyer politician

Stan Bunn is an American politician and lawyer in the U.S. state of Oregon. Born and raised in Yamhill County, he is part of a political family that includes his brother Jim Bunn who served in Congress. A self-described moderate Republican, Stan served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, including a successful run for the Oregon House of...

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90. Mark Hatfield

1922-2011 (aged 89)

political scientist writer dean peace activist military officer

Mark Odom Hatfield was an American politician and educator from the state of Oregon. A moderate Republican, he served eight years as Governor of Oregon, followed by 30 years as one of its United States senators, including time as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. A native Oregonian, he served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater during...

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91. John F. Steelhammer

1909-1974 (aged 65)

politician

John F. Steelhammer was an American politician in the state of Oregon. Born in Woodburn, Oregon, the son of the community's longtime mayor. He attended Oregon Normal College (now Western Oregon University) in Monmouth, and was a teacher in Boardman, Oregon for two years. Receiving an LL.B from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, Steelhammer began practicing law. Later he was...

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92. Dan Rayfield

1979-. (aged 47)

lawyer politician

Daniel Adam Rayfield is an American politician and attorney who has been the 18th attorney general of the state of Oregon since 2024, after his predecessor Ellen Rosenblum resigned a week before her term expired. He was speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2022 to 2024. In the House, he represented the 16th district, which included Corvallis and...

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93. Laurie Monnes Anderson

1945-. (aged 81)

nurse politician

Laurie Monnes Anderson is an American Democratic politician who most recently served in the Oregon Senate, representing District 25 in eastern Multnomah County, Oregon, including parts of the cities of Fairview, Gresham, Troutdale, and Wood Village. She previously served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives.

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94. Jay Inslee

1951-. (aged 75)

prosecutor lawyer politician

Jay Robert Inslee is an American politician and attorney who served as the 23rd Governor of Washington from 2013 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2012. Inslee was also a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.

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95. Grace Crunican

1955-. (aged 71)

Grace Crunican is a mass transportation specialist who most recently served as general manager of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District. She had previously worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation, the Federal Transit Administration (under the Clinton administration), and the Seattle Department of Transportation, and also at the mass transit lobbying organization called the Surface Transportation...

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96. Teresa Miller

politician

Teresa Miller is the president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Health Foundation, and is also a member of the Kansas Governor’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice.

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97. Richard Williams

1836-1914 (aged 78)

lawyer politician

Richard Edmund Williams was a Canadian and British animator, voice actor, and painter. A three-time Academy Award winner, he is best known as the animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)—for which he won two Academy Awards—and as the director of his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler (1993).

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98. Chris Hoy

politician peace officer

Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.

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99. Dale T. Mortensen

1939-2014 (aged 75)

university teacher economist professor

Dale Thomas Mortensen was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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