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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonWalter Marcus PIERCE
(1861-1954)
PIERCE, Walter Marcus, a
Representative from Oregon; born on a farm near Morris, Grundy
County, Ill., May 30, 1861; attended the common schools, Morris
(Ill.) Academy, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; taught
school in Grundy County, Ill., 1877-1880, and in Franklin County,
Kans., in 1881; moved to Oregon and taught school in Milton and
Weston, Umatilla County, 1883-1890; superintendent of schools of
Umatilla County, Oreg., 1886-1890; county clerk of Umatilla County
1890-1894; was graduated from the law department of Northwestern
University, Evanston, Ill., in 1896; was admitted to the bar and
practiced in Pendleton, Oreg., 1895-1907; engaged in banking and in
the power and light business 1898-1907; operated stock and wheat
farms 1907-1937; served in the Oregon senate 1903-1907 and
1917-1921; Governor of Oregon 1923-1927; member of the board of
regents of Oregon State College 1905-1927; delegate to all
Democratic State conventions from 1890 to 1908; delegate to the
Democratic National Conventions in 1920, 1932, and 1936; Democratic
National committeeman from Oregon 1932-1936; elected as a Democrat
to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1933-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; died at his home in Eola
Hills, west of Salem, Oreg., March 27, 1954; remains were cremated
and the ashes deposited in Mount Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem,
Oreg.
Bibliography
Pierce, Walter M. Oregon Cattleman-Governor-Congressman: Memoirs
and Times of Walter M. Pierce. Edited by Arthur H. Bone.
Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1981; Schwartz, Gerald.
“Walter M. Pierce and the Tradition of Progressive Reform: A
Study of Eastern Oregon’s Great Democrat.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Washington State University, 1969.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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