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in 1857. The convention drafted and ratified a proposed constitution to allow Oregon to become a state, which the citizens then approved later that year. Waymire represented the farming contingent at the convention and was characterized as a "sort of Far West David
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in 1858. However, the U.S. Senate did not admit Oregon into the Union, and those legislators which included
Waymire did not pass any laws and adjourned until news of statehood arrived. Oregon was admitted as a state on February 14, 1859, and Waymire and the rest of the legislature meet later that
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District 13 and Polk County as a Democrat at that first session of the Oregon State Legislature. Waymire returned to the legislature in 1868 as a member of the Oregon House from Polk County and District 34.
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