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
The Provisional Government of Oregon was a popularly elected settler government created in the Oregon Country, in the Pacific Northwest region of the western portion of the continent of North America.
George Abernethy, Governor from 1845 to 1849
Morton M. McCarver, Speaker in 1844 and 1845
James W. Nesmith, Supreme Judge in 1844 and 1845