Transcripts, 1950.

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Transcripts, 1950.

Transcripts (typescript) of confirmation hearings (May 4, June 5, and June 9, 1950) before the Senate Judiciary Sub-committee, considering the nomination of Gus J. Solomon to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Oregon. Includes numerous statements by colleagues, including Wayne Morse and Guy Cordon.

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Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman), 1900-1974

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Wayne Lyman Morse (October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon. Morse is well known for opposing his party's leadership and for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota Law School, Morse moved to Oregon in 1930 and began teaching at the University of Oregon School of Law. During World War II, he was elected to the U.S....

Solomon, Gus J. (Gus Jerome), 1906-1987.

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Gus J. Solomon was born in Portland, Oregon on August 29, 1906. He received his law degree from Stanford University and worked in private practice until his appointment to the federal bench by President Harry S. Truman in 1950. Recipient of many honors and awards over his career, he was best known as a civil rights advocate. He died in Portland at the age of eighty. From the description of Transcripts, 1950. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 36432160 ...

Cordon, Guy, 1890-1969.

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United States. District Court (Oregon)

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Jacob Vanderpool was an African American owner of a saloon, restaurant, and boarding house living in Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon Territory at a time when the Oregon Territoral government enforced an exclusion law it had passed in 1844 preventing blacks from living in Oregon. In 1851, Vanderpool's neighbor brought suit against him, and Judge Thomas Nelson expelled him from the territory. From the description of Theophilus Magruder v. Jacob Vanderpool case documents, 1851. (U...