Walter M. Pierce
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Walter Marcus Pierce was an American politician, a Democrat, who served as the 17th governor of Oregon and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 2nd congressional distri
Walter M. Pierce, Governor of Oregon The Oregana 1926 yearbook of the University of Oregon
Walter M. Pierce between 1920 and 1925
I. L. Patterson
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Isaac Lee Patterson was the 18th governor of Oregon from 1927 to 1929. An Oregon native, he served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly from 1918 to 1922, and was a farmer in the Willamette Valley. He w
Walter M. Pierce
…in 1924. The Ku Klux Klan, which had endorsed him only a few years earlier, began an unsuccessful recall effort. In the 1926 elections, Republican I. L. Patterson defeated Pierce. Upon leaving the Governor's office, Pierce returned to his ranch in La Grande, Oregon. The Compulsory Education Act was later struck…
Isaac L. Patterson