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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonCharles Orlando PORTER
(1919-2006)
PORTER, Charles Orlando, a
Representative from Oregon; born in Klamath Falls, Klamath County,
Oreg., April 4, 1919; moved to Eugene, Lane County, Oreg., in 1923
and attended the public schools; graduated from Harvard University
in 1941 and from Harvard Law School in 1947; served with the United
States Air Force from private to first lieutenant 1941-1945, with
overseas service in Europe; major in the Air Force Reserve
(retired); law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals in San
Francisco in 1947 and 1948; was admitted to the bar in 1948;
assistant to the director, American Bar Association’s Survey
of the Legal Profession, Boston, Mass., 1948-1951; practiced law in
Eugene, Oreg., 1951-1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth
and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1961);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-seventh
Congress in 1960; resumed the practice of law; consultant, Food for
Peace, The White House, 1961; unsuccessful candidate for nomination
to the Eighty-ninth Congress in 1964; unsuccessful candidate for
election to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966; unsuccessful candidate
for election to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972; unsuccessful
candidate for nomination to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976;
unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate
in 1980; died on January 1, 2006, in Eugene, Oreg.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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