Executive Committee (Oregon Country)

An Executive Committee was the title of a three-person committee which served as the executive Branch of the Provisional Government of Oregon in the disputed Oregon Country. This arrangement was announced on July 5, 1843, after three months of study by the Provisional Legislature at Champoeg.

Seal of the Provisional Government

Powers edit

The executive committee was empowered to grant reprieves and pardons, recommend legislation, and call out the militia.[1]

Members of the First Executive Committee (1843–1844) edit

Members of the Second Executive Committee (1844–1845) edit

Further reading edit

  • Klooster, Karl. Round the Roses II: More Past Portland Perspectives, p. 94, Portland, 1992. ISBN 0-9619847-1-6

References edit

  1. ^ "History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington": Embracing an Account of the Original Discoveries on the Pacific Coast of North America, Volume 1, (1889), p. 240.
Preceded by
None (Government established)
Executive Committees of the Oregon Country
1843–1845
Succeeded by