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Oregon Votes!
The history of voting in Oregon is unique. The state was first to pass a comprehensive initiative and referendum system—The Oregon System—in 1902. In 1998, voters approved the first vote-by-mail system in the country. Not all Oregonians, however, have had access to the vote. When the state constitution was drafted in 1857, women, African Americans, and Chinese were banned from voting. Oregon voters kept the exclusion laws in the constitution until 1927, long after the 15th Amendment passed in 1870—an amendment Oregon did not ratify until 1959. Women were not granted the vote in Oregon until 1912, after over 40 years of activism by suffragists. Read the history of voting in Oregon here, in the pages of the Oregon History Project.
 McNary
Charles McNary: Oregon’s most renowned political figure during the first half of the twentieth century was Salem-born Charles McNary, a Republican with Progressive credentials. McNary’s political ideology bridged both William U’Ren’s direct legislation reform measures and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. Read More |
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