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Slater, James Harvey

lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 28, 1826, in Sangamon county, Ill. He was a member of the Oregon territorial assembly in 1857 and 1858, and of the state assembly immediately after the admission of Oregon as a state. He was elected district attorney in 1866; and was a presidential elector in 1868. He was elected a representative from Oregon to the forty-second congress; and was elected a United States senator from Oregon for the term of six years from March 4, 1879. In 1887 he was appointed railroad commissioner for Oregon.