John Whiteaker citations

John Whiteaker est un homme politique américain. Démocrate, il sert comme premier gouverneur de l'État de l'Oregon de 1858 à 1862 puis comme représentant de l'Oregon à la Chambre des représentants des États-Unis de 1879 à 1881. Wikipedia

✵ 4. mai 1820 – 2. octobre 1902

John Whiteaker: Citations en anglais

“While our common country has been afflicted, and still suffers, from the greatest calamity a people can experience, our own State has been visited by scourges which, though relieved from the horrors of civil war, has resulted in the loss of immense quantities of property, the depriving of many of our citizens of their homes, or the means of support, and seriously crippling, for the present, the Agricultural interests of the State. Indeed, the high waters of December last did more than destroy property, and desolate homes; and many human lives were lost, while attempting to escape the floods, or generously assisting to relieve others from their perils.”

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John Whiteaker

John Whiteaker (September 8, 1862). Governor John Whiteaker - Governor's Message, 1862 http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/RecordView/6777832. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State. Source: House and Senate Journal, Salem, Oregon, Henry L. Pittock, State Printer, 1862: Proceedings of the House, Appendix to the House Journal, Page 3.