John R. McBride, b. 1832 Missouri to Oregon
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 241.
MCBRIDE, HON. JOHN R., an attorney of Spokane Falls, Washington, and brother of George W. and Thomas A., came to Oregon with his parents in1845. HE was secretary of the first meeting in Yamhill County, in 1856, to organize the Republican party in Oregon, and in 1858 was the first republican nominee for congress. He was elected to the constitutional convention in 1857, the only person in that body elected as a strait Republican. In 1862 he was again nominated for congress and elected. He was a member of the state conventions of 1857, 1858, and 1859.
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