Oregon. Provisional Government.

Asa Lawrence Lovejoy (1808-1882) was a legislator and Portland founder.

He was born at Groton, Mass. He arrived at the Whitman Mission in 1842. He left Oregon and returned in 1843 and practiced law at Oregon City. He took land claim at the site of Portland and in 1845, with Francis W. Pettygrove laid out sixteen blocks as a townsite. He served as mayor of Oregon City. He was in the Oregon legislature from 1847 to 1848. In 1848 he was a Supreme Court Judge. He went on to work in and with Oregon government until 1857 holding various positions. He married Elizabeth McGary and had five children.