Jonathan Bourne

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Jonathan Bourne, Jr. (February 23, 1855 - September 1, 1940) was a United States Senator from Oregon. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he attended private schools and Harvard University. He settled in Portland in 1878, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1881 and practiced in Portland from 1881 to 1886. He had interests in mining, farming, cotton mills, and commercial enterprises.

Bourne was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1887 to 1899, and was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate, serving from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1913; he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1912. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Fisheries (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses) and a member of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads (Sixty-second Congress). He was president of the National Republican Progressive League, and resumed his former pursuits in Oregon and Massachusetts. He engaged in newspaper work in Washington, D.C. until his death there in 1940; interment was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.