Oral history interviews with Gus J. Solomon. [1976]

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 ...

Zell, Janet,

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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...

Feldman, Marianne L.,

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