James H. Slater

James Harvey Slater ( born December 28, 1826 Springfield, Illinois; † January 28, 1899 in La Grande, Oregon ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Oregon in both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

Slater attended the schools of his home in Sangamon County. In 1849 he first moved to California, before settling in 1850 in Corvallis Oregon Territory. There he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1854. From 1853 to 1856 he was employed as a clerk at the District Court of Benton County.

As a politician, he was first a member of the Territorial Legislature from 1857 to 1858, before the Union from 1859 to 1860 he belonged to the House of Representatives of the new state after the recording of Oregon. During the same period, he served as postmaster of Corvallis; He also gave the newspaper out there Corvallis Union. Until 1863 Slater worked in the result again as a lawyer before he moved on to Washington Territory to Walla Walla; later he returned to Oregon, where he first lived in Auburn and finally in La Grande in Union County. There in 1868 he was District Attorney for the Fifth Judicial District of Oregon; In the same year he was a member of the Electoral College, but not in his State of the victorious Horatio Seymour, but the Republican Ulysses S. Grant elected to the U.S. President for the Democrats.

On March 4, 1871 James Slater took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. After a two -year term, he left the Congress again and worked as a lawyer in La Grande. In 1878 he won the election for U.S. Senator for Oregon, he held on 4 March 1879 to 3 March 1885. He then worked as a lawyer again and was from 1889 to 1891 the state railway commission of Oregon.