1. John Whiteaker was an American politician, soldier, and judge.
21 Facts About John Whiteaker
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John Whiteaker was president of the Oregon State Senate and Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.
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John Whiteaker was born in Dearborn County in the southeast corner of Indiana to farmers on May 4,1820.
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John Whiteaker's parents were John and Nancy, and he had four siblings.
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John Whiteaker then was elected as a legislator in the Territorial Legislature in 1857 representing Lane County in the House of Representatives.
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John Whiteaker was selected as a Democratic faction's nominee in the first state gubernatorial election, held in June 1858.
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John Whiteaker won by a margin of 1,138, and was inaugurated July 8,1858.
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John Whiteaker did not assume office until word that Congress had passed Oregon's statehood bill on February 14,1859.
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John Whiteaker promoted economic policies favoring home industries, products that Oregonians could make self-sufficiently.
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John Whiteaker held pro-slavery views which did not sit well with a population that largely opposed slavery in Oregon.
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In 1859 Governor John Whiteaker proclaimed the fourth Thursday of December as the Thanksgiving holiday for Oregon.
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John Whiteaker was not nominated again by the Democrats in the 1862 election, and thus left office.
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John Whiteaker stayed in local politics, winning three terms as a state representative, and election to the state senate in 1876.
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John Whiteaker was president of the Oregon Senate during the 1876 and 1878 sessions.
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John Whiteaker was elected to Congress in 1878, as Oregon's Representative-at large.
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The regular transcontinental train was 25 hours out of Oakland, but John Whiteaker's train managed to catch up with it.
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In 1880, John Whiteaker ran for re-election to Congress, but was defeated by Republican Melvin Clark George by 1,379 votes.
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John Whiteaker was called back into politics one more time, in 1885 when President Grover Cleveland appointed him as Oregon's Collector of Revenues at the US Customs House in Portland.
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John Whiteaker moved back to Eugene after 1890, purchasing 10 city blocks in the central city.
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The plat, John Whiteaker's Addition, is commonly known as the John Whiteaker neighborhood.
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John Whiteaker remained in Eugene, Oregon until his death on October 2,1902.