Records, 1860.

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Records, 1860.

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Handscript copy of proceedings of the 1860 United States senatorial election in Oregon; contains names of senatorial candidates and state legislators; certified October 12, 1860, by Luther Elkins, presiding officer of the joint convention of the two houses, at which time James W. Nesmith and Edward D. Baker were elected.

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Oregon. Legislative Assembly

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Baker, Edward Dickinson, 1811-1861

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Born in London in 1811 to schoolteacher Edward Baker and Lucy Dickinson Baker, poor but educated Quakers, the boy Edward Baker and his family left England and emigrated to the United States in 1816, arriving in Philadelphia, where Baker's father established a school. Ed attended his father's school before quitting to apprentice as a loom operator in a weaving factory. In 1825, the family left Philadelphia and traveled to New Harmony, Indiana, a utopian community on the Ohio River led by Robert O...

United States. Congress. Senate

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Elkins, Luther, 1809-1887.

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Nesmith, James Willis, 1820-1885

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James Willis Nesmith was born July 23, 1820 in New Brunswick, Canada. He arrived in Oregon in 1843 with pioneer missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman. Nesmith held several public offices, including provisional government supreme court judge, state legislator, captain in the Cayuse, Rogue River, and Yakima Indian Wars, U.S. marshall, superintendent of Indian affairs, and U.S. senator. From the description of James Willis Nesmith papers, 1845-1885. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library)....