1. Guy F Cordon was an American author, politician and lawyer from the state of Oregon.
11 Facts About Guy Cordon
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Guy Cordon was born in Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, on April 24,1890.
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Guy Cordon moved with his family to Roseburg, Oregon, in 1896, and attended the public schools in that city.
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In 1914, Cordon married Ana Allen, and they had two children.
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Guy Cordon studied law and then passed the bar in 1920.
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Guy Cordon then began working as the lawyer for a group of 18 counties suing the federal government as an outgrowth of the Oregon land fraud scandal involving land grants for the Oregon and California Railroad.
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In 1944, Cordon was appointed to a seat in the United States Senate from Oregon by Governor Earl Snell following the death of Senator Charles L McNary.
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Guy Cordon served as chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs from 1954 until his term expired in 1955.
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Guy Cordon visited Hawaii to conduct hearings on possible statehood for the then-territory.
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Guy Cordon was in the Senate from March 4,1944, to January 3,1955.
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Guy F Cordon died in Washington, DC, on June 8,1969, at the age of 79 and was buried in Roseburg at the Roseburg Memorial Gardens.