Executive Committee (Oregon Country)

Seal of the Provisional Government

An Executive Committee was the title of a three-person committee which served as the executive Branch of the Provisional Government of Oregon in the disputed Oregon Country. This arrangement was announced on July 5, 1843, after three months of study by the Provisional Legislature at Champoeg.

## Powers

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The executive committee was empowered to grant reprieves and pardons, recommend legislation, and call out the militia.[1]

## Members of the First Executive Committee (1843–1844)

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* David Hill – Pioneer from Connecticut, went on to become founder of Hillsboro, Oregon.
* Alanson Beers – Also from Connecticut. Methodist missionary with the Reverend Jason Lee's mission. Later a business partner of George Abernethy.
* Joseph Gale – Ship builder, sea captain and accomplished trader.

## Members of the Second Executive Committee (1844–1845)

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* Peter G. Stewart – New York pioneer.
* Osborne Russell – Helped build Fort Hall in Idaho, fur trader, later candidate for Provisional Governor.
* William J. Bailey – Trapper and trader, later became a doctor.

## Further reading

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* Klooster, Karl. Round the Roses II: More Past Portland Perspectives, p. 94, Portland, 1992. ISBN 0-9619847-1-6

## References

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1. ^ "History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington": Embracing an Account of the Original Discoveries on the Pacific Coast of North America, Volume 1, (1889), p. 240.

Preceded by

None (Government established)

|  Executive Committees of the Oregon Country
1843–1845  | Succeeded by

George Abernethy

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Pioneer history of Oregon (1806–1890)

Topics|

* American Fur Company
* Columbian exchange
* Executive Committee
* Ferries
* Hudson's Bay Company
* Oregon & California Railroad
* Oregon boundary dispute
* Oregon Country
* Oregon Lyceum
* Oregon missionaries
* Oregon Spectator
* Oregon Territory
* Oregon Trail
* Oregon Treaty
* Organic Laws
* Pacific Fur Company
* Provisional Government

Events|

* Treaty of 1818
* Russo-American Treaty of 1824
* Willamette Cattle Company
* Champoeg Meetings
* Star of Oregon
* Whitman massacre
* Cayuse War
* Donation Land Claim Act
* Holmes v. Ford
* Rogue River Wars
* Constitutional Convention
* Modoc War
* Great Gale of 1880

Places|

* Albina
* Applegate Trail
* Barlow Road
* Canemah
* Champoeg
* Elliott Cutoff
* Fort Astoria
* Fort Dalles
* Fort Vancouver
* Fort William
* French Prairie
* Linn City
* Meek Cutoff
* Methodist Mission
* Oregon City
* Oregon Institute
* Philip Foster Farm
* Thomas and Ruckle Road
* Tualatin Academy
* Whitman Mission
* Willamette Trading Post

People|

* George Abernethy
* Jesse Applegate
* Ira Babcock
* Sam Barlow
* François Blanchet
* William H. Boring
* Elijah Bristow
* Tabitha Brown
* Matthew Deady
* Abigail Scott Duniway
* Thomas Lamb Eliot
* Philip Foster
* Peter French
* Joseph Gale
* Cornelius Gilliam
* David Hill
* Chief Joseph
* Joseph Kellogg
* H.A.G. Lee
* Jason Lee
* David Thomas Lenox
* Asa Lovejoy
* Morton M. McCarver
* John McLoughlin
* Joseph Meek
* Ezra Meeker
* James D. Miller
* John Minto
* Robert Newell
* Joel Palmer
* Osborne Russell
* Sager orphans
* Levi Scott
* Eliza Hart Spalding
* Henry Spalding
* William Vandevert
* Elijah White
* Marcus Whitman
* Narcissa Whitman
* Geo. H. Williams
* Ewing Young

Transportation|

* Columbia
* Lot Whitcomb
* Canemah
* Colonel Wright
* Gazelle
* Oregon Steam Navigation Company

Oregon history|

* Native peoples history
* History to 1806
* Pioneer history
* Modern history

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