George LeBreton
George LeBreton | |
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Recorder for the Provisional Government of Oregon | |
In office 1841–1844 | |
Preceded by | position created |
Succeeded by | Overton Johnson |
Constituency | Oregon Country |
Personal details | |
Born | 1810 Massachusetts |
Died | March 4, 1844 Oregon | (aged 33–34)
George W. LeBreton (1810 – March 4, 1844) was a pioneer politician in the Oregon Country and served as the official recorder in the Provisional Government of Oregon.
LeBreton was born in 1810 in Massachusetts.[1] He then moved to Oregon along with Captain John H. Couch, an early sea merchant in Portland, Oregon.[2] He arrived in Oregon aboard Couch’s vessel Maryland in 1840.[3] In Oregon on February 18, 1841, he was elected as the recorder for the Champoeg Meetings and for the probate court that was created.[1] Then in 1843 when the provisional government was formed he was again elected as the recorder, the forerunner to the office of Secretary of State.[1] He was still the government recorder when he was killed by a Native American named Cockstock on March 4, 1844.[4] Cockstock had stabbed and shot LeBreton along with another before being killed himself by Winslow Armstrong, but the incident lead to the creation of the Oregon Rangers as a militia.[2][4]
References
- ^ a b c Oregon Blue Book: Oregon Secretaries of State Biographical Sketches, 1841-Present. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on March 10, 2008.
- ^ a b Brown, J. Henry (1892). Brown’s Political History of Oregon: Provisional Government. Wiley B. Allen.
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(help) - ^ Flora, Stephenie. Emigrants to Oregon in 1840. Oregon Pioneers. Retrieved on September 25, 2007.
- ^ a b Horner, John B. (1921). Oregon: Her History, Her Great Men, Her Literature. Corvallis, Oregon: John B. Horner. pp. 125, 153–4, 176. OCLC 2959122. OL 13573540M. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
- Secretaries of State of Oregon
- Champoeg Meetings
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- 1844 deaths
- People from Massachusetts
- Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon
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- Deaths by firearm in Oregon
- Deaths by stabbing in Oregon
- 19th-century American politicians
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