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Packwood, Bob

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Robert "Bob" William Packwood was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1932. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology before transferring to Willamette University, where one of his professors was Mark Hatfield. It was at Willamette that Packwood became involved in the Young Republicans and started working on political campaigns. He majored in political science and graduated in 1954. He then attended law school at New York University. After graduating in 1957, he returned to Oregon, where he began a long political career. As chairman of the Multnomah County Republican Party, he was known for his effective campaigns, and was often called upon to help other Oregon Republicans win their elections. In 1962, he was elected to the Oregon Legislature. In 1964, he married Georgie Ann Oberteuffer Crockatt. He defeated Wayne Morse for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1968 and served five terms. He was involved in political events at the state, national, and international level from the 1960s throughout the 1990s. Finance and tax law, the Middle East, and women's issues were among his greatest interest and specialty areas. Although he was known for his strong advocacy of women's rights, he was also accused of numerous instances of sexual harassment. After an investigation into the allegations, the Senate Ethics Committee recommended that Packwood be expelled from the Senate, and he resigned from his seat in 1995.

Green, Alan, 1925-

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  • 1925-2001

Alan "Punch" Green, Jr. was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1925. He got an early start in politics when he was elected student body president at Lincoln High School. He attended the University of Oregon in 1943 before enlisting in the U.S. Army, where he served as a theodylite observer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He was discharged after an injury and returned to Portland in 1945. He majored in political science at Stanford University and graduated in 1949. While at Stanford, he began dating Joan Irwin, whom he had met in high school. They married in 1949 and later had three children. He worked as an insurance salesman and later started a battery company. He was a lifelong member of the Republican Party, serving as chair of the Oregon presidential campaigns for Presidents Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush, as well as statewide candidates such as Governor Vic Atiyeh and U.S. Senator Gordon Smith. He was president of the Port of Portland for two terms. President Reagan named him chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission in 1981. He was appointed as the ambassador to Romania by President George H. W. Bush in 1989 and served during the Romanian Revolution. After his ambassadorship ended in 1992, Green retired but continued his involvement in Republican politics. He died in 2001.

Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896

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  • 1823-1896

Brady first learned the art of photography in 1841, where he studied with Samuel B. Morse at the New York Academy of Design and at Morse's own daguerreotype school. Brady opened a daguerreotype studio in New York City, New York in 1844, where over the years he concentrated on portraits, most notably famous contemporary Americans, such as the statesman Henry Clay. In 1847, with his business flourishing, Brady opened another portrait studio in Washington, D.C. In 1860, Brady opened the largest of his galleries, called the National Portrait Gallery, and in that year took his first of many famous portraits of Abraham Lincoln. In 1861, Brady requested permission to document the Civil War. From 1861 to 1865, he organized teams of photographers attached to all parts of the United States Army who documented battles, officers and equipment. Brady and his team were able to cover all the battles and events of the war, which include portraits of Generals Grant and Lee, as well as unflinching images of dead soldiers. Brady approached the state concerning purchasing his collection, but it wasn't until 1875, after a vote in Congress, that the War Department of the United States purchased part of his Civil War collection of glass negatives. The purchase came too late, as Brady was reduced to poverty, selling the last of his galleries in 1895.

Brodie, Donald W.

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Donald W. Brodie is a professor of law at University of Oregon.

Ross, Marion Dean

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  • 1913-1991

Marion Dean Ross was born in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1913. He earned a master's degree in architecture from Harvard University. He taught architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being drafted during World War II. He was sent for training in Oregon, then served in the European theater. After his discharge, he briefly returned to his position at Tulane University. In 1946, he began teaching architecture at Pennsylvania State University, and the next year he began his career as a professor of architecture at University of Oregon. He served as the dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the university from 1963 until his retirement in 1978. He died in 1991.

Rice, Clyde, 1903-1998

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  • 1903-1998

Clyde Harvey Rice was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903. He attended the Portland Art Museum School, now the Pacific Northwest College of Art. In 1921, he moved to San Francisco, California. In 1922, he and Marguerite Evelyn "Nordi" Nordstrom were married; they later had one child. In 1934, the couple returned to Oregon and homesteaded in Clackamas County. In 1937, the couple returned to Portland, where Rice helped his father run a flavor extract business until 1958. Clyde Rice and Nordi Rice were divorced in 1945, and the same year, Clyde Rice married Nordi's niece, Virginia Lee "Ginny" Broms. Later in his life, Rice became a writer. He published his first book, "A Heaven in the Eye," when he was 81 years old. He died in 1998.

Granberg-Michaelson, Wesley

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  • 1945-

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, nee Wesley Michaelson, was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1945. Through his involvement with the Young Republicans, he met Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield as a teenager at the 1960 Republican National Convention. He attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan, graduating in 1967. He continued his studies at the Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1968, he attended the National Prayer Breakfast, where he once again met Hatfield. Soon after, he joined the senator's staff as an intern, and was made a full-time foreign policy advisor in 1969. In the late 1970s, he and Karen Granberg were married, and both changed their surnames to Granberg-Michaelson. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson left Hatfield's staff in 1976 to become managing editor of the social justice magazine Sojourners, a position he held until 1980. He was also general secretary for the Reformed Church in America.

Hobson, Howard, 1903-

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  • 1903-1991

Howard Andrew "Hobby" Hobson was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903. He was a basketball player and a coach of college football, basketball, and baseball. He attended the University of Oregon with the intent to study law. After being told by the dean of the law school that he would have to choose only one sport to play, he switched his major to economics with a minor in education. Just before his graduation in 1926, he and Jenny Christin Noren were married; they later had two children. In 1949, he earned a master's degree from Columbia University. Hobson was head basketball coach at Southern Oregon University from 1932 to 1935, at the University of Oregon from 1935 to 1947, and at Yale University from 1947 to 1956. He was also head football coach at Southern Oregon University from 1932 to 1934, and head baseball coach at the University of Oregon from 1936 to 1947. In 1945, he earned a doctorate from Columbia University. He was president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1948, spent 12 years on the U.S. Olympic Committee, including four years as chairman, and in 1952, managed the U.S. Olympic basketball team at the Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland. He died in 1991.

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