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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonMathew Harris ELLSWORTH
(1899-1986)
ELLSWORTH, Mathew Harris,
a Representative from Oregon; born in Hoquiam, Grays Harbor County,
Wash., September 17, 1899; moved with his parents to Eugene and
later to Wendling, Oreg.; attended the public schools; served in
the Student Army Training Corps during the First World War; was
graduated in journalism from the University of Oregon at Eugene in
1922; advertising manager of a newspaper in Eugene, Oreg., in 1923;
engaged in the lumber business 1923-1925; manager of a
lumber-industry publication 1926-1928; associate professor in
journalism at the University of Oregon in 1928 and 1929; publisher
and part owner of the Roseburg (Oreg.) News-Review since 1929;
served by appointment in the State senate in 1941; elected as a
Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the six succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1957); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress;
appointed by President Eisenhower as chairman of the Civil Service
Commission for a two-year term and served from April 18, 1957, to
February 28, 1959; resumed newspaper business profession; real
estate broker; moved to Albuquerque, N.Mex., in 1975 and lived
there until his death on February 7, 1986; interment in Gate of
Heaven Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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