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Columbia Lancaster

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31: 309:. Lancaster was the sole member of the Council who attempted to establish this minority faction as the legitimate Oregon Territorial Legislature in a session held at the Territorial Library in Oregon City. The rival minority assembly continued to meet in Oregon City for two weeks, marked by the spectacle of Lancaster making and seconding his own motions in the "Council" himself. 593: 301:(Senate) from 1850 to 1852. During the tumultuous 1851-52 session of the Oregon Territorial Legislature Lancaster gave his allegiance to a rump group consisting of four members of the House who refused to participate with the 608: 116: 603: 543: 549: 618: 588: 633: 628: 613: 239: 526: 210: 108: 643: 638: 598: 511: 623: 259: 202: 320: 302: 271: 53: 30: 363: 312:
Lancaster resigned his Council seat in the fall of 1852 and was replaced at a special election held December 7 of that year.
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Congress and served from April 12, 1854 to March 3, 1855. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination.
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in 1862. He was also connected with the Puget Sound & Columbia River Railroad project in 1862.
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from 1847 to the end of that government in 1849. He took up his residence near the mouth of the
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The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: Volume XXX: History of Oregon: Volume II, 1848-1888.
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Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Washington Territory
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He was appointed prosecuting attorney of Michigan Territory by Governor
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Oregon Blue Book: Earliest Authorities in Oregon - Supreme Court Judges
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Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress, 1774-Present,
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Congress from Oregon before the separation of the Territories of
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Vancouver, WA: Fort Vancouver Historical Society, 1993; pg. 33.
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History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington
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San Francisco, CA: The History Company, 1888; pg. 161.
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Exploring Washington's Past: A Road Guide to History
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was admitted to representation, he was elected as a
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7th
Provisional Government of Oregon
George Abernethy
J. Quinn Thornton
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington Territory
at-large district
James Patton Anderson
New Milford, Connecticut
Vancouver, Washington
Delegate
Territory of Washington
United States House of Representatives
New Milford, Connecticut
Canfield, Ohio
Detroit, Michigan Territory
admitted to the bar
Centreville, Michigan
Lewis Cass
Michigan House of Representatives
Willamette Valley
Oregon Country
Provisional Government of Oregon
Lewis River
Oregon Territory
State of Washington
Thirty-first
Washington
Oregon Territorial Council

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