Robert N. Stanfield

Robert Nelson Stanfield ( born July 9, 1877 in Umatilla, Umatilla County, Oregon, † April 13, 1945 in Weiser, Idaho ) is an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Oregon in the U.S. Senate.

A native of the Eastern Oregon Robert Stanfield attended the public schools of his home and following the State Normal School in Weston. After he had finished his education, he began to press to the livestock sector; He also got into the cities echo and a Baker into the banking sector. As a rancher he put his attention first on cattle, but then increased with time over to sheep. According to an estimate made ​​during the First World War his flock consisted of approximately 350,000 animals, which made it the largest sheep farmer in the world.

Stanfield's political career began in 1912 with the election to the House of Representatives from Oregon, where he represented the 22th District of the State; this included the Morrow County and Umatilla County. He remained until 1917 in this chamber of parliament; in his last year in office, he served as the Speaker. In 1918 he wrote his first application for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, but was defeated Charles L. McNary. Two years later Stanfield stepped up to the election to the second Senate seat of Oregon and was successful, and he his mandate in Washington DC perceived from March 4, 1921. He spent a six -year term and during this time was one of the Chairmen of the Committee for the control of the public service.

During his time in the Senate Stanfield strengthened himself, especially for the states in the western U.S.. His greatest success, he later described the creation of the Owyhee Dam in eastern Oregon and the establishment of irrigation facilities in Malheur County, which is one of the first projects for the fertilization of wasteland was created. He caused a sensation when he was arrested at the time of Prohibition, because he had been beaten while drunk in a bar in Baker. 1926 When he applied for the re- nomination of his party, he met with opposition from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Ku Klux Klan; he lost the primary to Frederick Steiwer. He succeeded indeed to compete as an Independent, but he was defeated Steiwer in the actual election one more time. Stanfield then returned to Oregon, where he pursued his business commitments until his death in 1945.