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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonRobert Blackford DUNCAN
(1920- )
DUNCAN, Robert Blackford,
a Representative from Oregon; born in Normal, McLean County, Ill.,
December 4, 1920; was raised in Bloomington, Ill., and attended
public schools there; attended University of Alaska, College,
Alaska, 1939-1940; B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington,
Ill., 1942; took University of California correspondence courses in
1940; LL.B., University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Mich.,
1948; United States Merchant Marine; United States Naval Air Force,
1942-1945; United States Naval Reserve; worked in the placer gold
fields of Alaska, with a seed corn company in Illinois, and with a
bank in Chicago; was admitted to the bar in October 1948; lawyer,
private practice; nominated in 1954 as a write-in candidate for the
Oregon state legislature, but declined for business reasons;
elected to the Oregon state house of representatives,1956-1962;
elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the Eighty-ninth
Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate
for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966; unsuccessful
candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1968 and
1972; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the
Ninety-fourth, Ninety-fifth, and Ninety-sixth Congresses (January
3, 1975-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful candidate for renomination
to the Ninety-seventh Congress in 1980; Northwest Power Planning
Council, 1984-1988, and served as chairman in 1987; is a resident
of Portland, Oreg.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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