1. Hardy Myers was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served three terms as the 15th attorney general of the state of Oregon, United States.
19 Facts About Hardy Myers
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Hardy Myers moved with his family to Bend in central Oregon in 1943 where his father, a lumberman, became manager of the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company, one of the two large mills that used to operate on the Deschutes River.
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Hardy Myers attended public schools until graduation from high school.
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Hardy Myers returned to Oregon to continue on to law school at the University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, earning a LL.
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Hardy Myers was on the Board of Editors of the Oregon Law Review.
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Hardy Myers first came to the firm in 1965, when it was known Davies, Biggs, Strayer, Stoel and Boley.
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Hardy Myers was a member of the Oregon State Bar and Multnomah County Bar Association and was admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Oregon and United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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Hardy Myers first ran for, and was elected to, the Oregon House of Representatives in the 1974 elections representing what was then House District 19.
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Hardy Myers twice served as chair for the Committee on Judiciary, first from 1977 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1984.
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Hardy Myers left elected office for a time in 1985 and was elected Councilor to the Metropolitan Service District, serving from 1985 to 1986.
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Hardy Myers went on to become chairman of the Oregon Criminal Justice Council in 1987 and was appointed to the State Sentencing Guidelines Board by then Governor Neil Goldschmidt.
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Hardy Myers appointed by Metropolitan Service District Executive Officer Rena Cusma to serve as chair of the Metro Charter Committee.
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Hardy Myers defeated Kevin Mannix of Salem in the 1996 primary, when Mannix was a Democrat.
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Hardy Myers drew headlines in 2001 when Oregon went to federal court to defend the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, the state's physician-assisted suicide law, against John Ashcroft who was then United States Attorney General, who opened the way for federal prosecution of doctors who prescribed lethal doses of medication.
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Under Hardy Myers, Oregon has been a leader in a series of multistate lawsuits against and settlements with big drug manufacturers in the past five years, as recently as October 22,2008.
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The university, represented by Hardy Myers, refused to provide the information, questioning the tactics used in the investigation.
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Hardy Myers has received the highest honors from his peers at the National Association of Attorneys General and the Oregon State Bar.
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Hardy Myers died of complications of pneumonia in Portland on November 29,2016.
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Hardy Myers had lung cancer for the final two years of his life.