Willamette University
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The Willamette University is a private university in Salem, the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon. The university has about 2,500 students, of which about 700 attend postgraduate programs. The university has faculties of arts, law, business, and teacher training.
History
The University describes itself as the first university in the U.S. West region, it carries out its history back to a company that in 1842 higher school for the children there resident missionaries and settlers who called university since 1853, initially Wallamet University. The law school, founded in 1883, is the oldest of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, which merged with the University of Oregon Medical School today was also the first in the region.
Known graduates
- Jay Bowerman 13th Governor of Oregon
- Sam Farr, politicians
- Theodore Thurston Geer, tenth Governor of the State of Oregon
- Melvin Clark George, politicians
- Edith Green, politician
- Mark Hatfield, 29, Governor of Oregon
- Willis C. Hawley, politician and president of the University from 1893 to 1902
- Matthew Hindman, a political scientist
- Remote Hobbs
- Jay Inslee, politicians
- Harry Lane, politicians
- Richard Laymon, author of horror novels
- Conde McCullough, Civil
- Lisa Murkowski, American politician
- James W. Mott, politicians
- Merrill Moores, politicians
- Dale Mortensen, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2010
- Bob Packwood, politicians
- Frederick Schwatka, a lieutenant in the United States Army and explorer in Alaska and Canada
- Vic Snyder, politicians
- Dick Weisgerber, U.S. American football player
- Richard Williams, politicians
- John N. Williamson, politicians