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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonJames Harvey SLATER
(1826-1899)
Senate Years of Service:
1879-1885Party: DemocratSLATER, James Harvey, a
Representative and a Senator from Oregon; born near Springfield,
Sangamon County, Ill., December 28, 1826; attended the common
schools; moved to California in 1849; settled in Corvallis, Oreg.,
in 1850; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1854; clerk of the
district court of the Territory of Oregon for Benton County
1853-1856; member, Territorial assembly 1857-1858; member, State
house of representatives 1859; published the Oregon Weekly Union at
Corvallis 1859-1861; district attorney for the fifth judicial
district of Oregon in 1868; presidential elector on the Democratic
ticket in 1868; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress
(March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1885;
resumed the practice of law in La Grande, Oreg.; member of the
State railroad commission 1889-1891; died in La Grande, Oreg.,
January 28, 1899; interment in Masonic Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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