Osborne Russell

Osborne Russell
Second Executive Committee
In office
1844–1845
Preceded by First Executive Committee
Succeeded by George Abernethy
Constituency Oregon Country
Personal details
Born 1814
Maine
Died August 2, 1892(1892-08-02) (aged 77–78)

Osborne Russell (1814 August 2, 1892) was a mountain man and politician who helped form the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. He was born in Maine.[1]

Russell first came to the Oregon Country in 1834 as a member of Nathaniel J. Wyeth's second expedition. He returned to the country in 1842 with the Elijah White party. He participated in the May 2, 1843 Champoeg Meeting, voting in favor of forming a government.[1] In October of that year he was selected by the First Executive Committee to serve as the supreme judge for the Provisional Government of Oregon and served until May 14, 1844.[2] In 1844, he was elected to the second Executive Committee of the Provisional Government of Oregon. He was allied with the group that planned to create an independent Republic of the Pacific and thus was unsuccessful in his run for governor of the Provisional Government in 1845, losing to George Abernethy. Russell eventually went to California.[1]

Although not published until well after the establishment of Yellowstone National Park, Osborne's Journal of a Trapper contains an early description of the Lamar Valley or Osborne's Secluded Valley in Yellowstone.[3][4]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 Cogswell, Jr., Philip (1977). Capitol Names: Individuals Woven Into Oregon's History. Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society. p. 61.
  2. "Oregon Supreme Court Justices". Oregon Blue Book. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved 2007-03-14.
  3. Haines, Aubrey L. (1996). Yellowstone Place Names-Mirrors of History. Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado. pp. 106107. ISBN 0-87081-382-X.
  4. Russell, Osborne (1921). Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains (1834-1843). Boise, Idaho: Symes-York Company. p. 31.
Preceded by
First Executive Committee

with Alanson Beers
David Hill
Joseph Gale
Second Executive Committee
Provisional Government of Oregon

1844-1845
with William J. Bailey
Peter G. Stewart
Succeeded by
Governor of Provisional Government
George Abernethy


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