Champoeg Meetings
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The Champoeg Meetings were the first attempts at formal governance by European-American and French Canadian pioneers in the Oregon Country on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America. Between 1841
Oregon Institute building circa 1844 in present-day Salem
District boundaries drawn in 1843, showing modern U.S. state and international borders
Joseph Meek
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Joseph Lafayette Meek was an American pioneer, mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States. A trapper involved in the f
Champoeg Meetings
…O'Neil, and William M. Doughty. Other offices elected on May 2 were Albert E. Wilson as Supreme Judge, George W. LeBreton as Court Clerk and Recorder, Joseph L. Meek as Sheriff and William H. Willson as Treasurer. A gathering was held on July 5 to vote on the work of the legislative committee. The original Organic…
Joseph L. Meek
Meek as a young man