John R. McBride

John Rogers McBride ( born August 22, 1832 in St. Louis, Missouri, † July 20, 1904 in Spokane, Washington ) is an American politician ( Republican). Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John McBride attended the common schools and later in Oregon, where he had moved in 1851 with his parents. There the family settled near Lafayette. After studying law and his 1855 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Lafayette in this profession.

In 1857 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of Oregon and 1860-1862 he was a member of the Senate of Oregon. In 1862 he was elected as the first Republican from Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced George K. Shiel on March 4, 1863. McBride was not nominated in 1864 by his party for another term in Congress. Therefore, he resigned from the Parliament on 3 March 1865.

After the end of his time in Congress McBride was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to the Supreme Judge in Idaho Territory. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him in 1869 to head the United States Assay Office in Boise. In 1872 and 1880-1892 McBride was a member of the Republican National Committee. He also worked in Boise and later in Salt Lake City, Utah and finally in Spokane as a lawyer. He is also passed in 1904.

John McBride was an older brother of George W. McBride, who was sitting 1895-1901 for Oregon in the U.S. Senate. His other brother, Thomas, was chief judge in Oregon.