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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonWilliam Russell ELLIS
(1850-1915)
ELLIS, William Russell, a
Representative from Oregon; born near Waveland, Montgomery County,
Ind., April 23, 1850; moved with his parents to Guthrie County,
Iowa, in 1855; attended the district schools and the Iowa State
Agricultural College at Ames; was graduated from the law department
of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1874; was admitted to the
bar and commenced practice in Panora, Iowa; mayor of Panora for one
term; moved to Hamburg, Iowa, where he continued the practice of
law, and also engaged in newspaper work; served two years as city
attorney; mayor of Hamburg in 1880 and 1881; moved to Heppner,
Oreg., in 1884; superintendent of schools of Morrow County in 1885
and 1886; district attorney of the seventh judicial district of
Oregon 1886-1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3,
1899); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of
Justice (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Irrigation of Arid
Lands (Fifty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1898; circuit judge of the sixth judicial district
of Oregon from July 10, 1900, to July 1, 1906; moved to Pendleton
in 1901 and practiced law; elected to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first
Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1910; resumed the practice of law in Pendleton,
Oreg.; in July 1914 moved to Portland, Oreg., where he died January
18, 1915; interment in a mausoleum in Portland Crematorium.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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