Robert N. Stanfield
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| Robert N. Stanfield, Jr. | |
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| In office March 4, 1921–March 3, 1927 |
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| Preceded by | George E. Chamberlain |
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| Succeeded by | Frederick Steiwer |
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| In office 1917–1918 |
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| Preceded by | Ben Selling |
| Succeeded by | Seymour Jones |
| Constituency | Umatilla County |
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| Born | July 9, 1877 near Umatilla, Oregon |
| Died | April 13, 1945 (aged 67) Weiser, Idaho |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Inez Hill |
| Profession | sheep and cattle rancher |
| Religion | nominally Epsicopalian |
Robert Nelson Stanfield (July 9, 1877 - April 13, 1945) was a United States Senator from Oregon. Born near Umatilla, Oregon, he attended the public schools and the State normal school at Weston. He engaged in the livestock industry and was also interested in banking in Echo and Baker. From 1913 to 1917 he was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, serving as speaker in 1917.
In 1920, Stanfield was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1927. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee to Examine Branches of the Civil Service (Sixty-eighth Congress) and a member of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Sixty-ninth Congress).
He ran for the Republican nomination in 1926. He lost in the May primary election to Frederick Steiwer. He then earned a position on the general election ballot as an independent candidate.[1] He lost to Steiwer a second time.
R.N., as he was known, was the eldest son of Robert N. Stanfield, a pioneer settler from Illinois, by his second wife. Following in his father's footsteps, he expanded the family landholdings through astute deals and grazing rights on public lands. At one time the family firm ran the world's largest bands of sheep, selling lambs in Omaha and Chicago, mutton in the Northwest, and wool. He was involved in founding the Pendleton Woolen Mills. He was widely admired as smart, handsome and personable. Also he was a true son of the frontier West.[2] During his time in Congress, he took hearings about public land use to the western states for the first time. He considered his greatest success the construction of the Owyhee Dam and irrigation projects in Malheur Co., OR, one of the first desert land reclamation projects. His p.r. was rough and ready: in the midst of prohibition, he was arrested following a drunken bar fight in Baker, OR. When he ran for re-election, his major opponents were the WCTU and the KKK. His admiring cowboy constituency could not elect him.[3]
He resumed his former business pursuits, although without success, having lost his assets to an untrustworthy collegue while inh D.C., and in 1945 died in Weiser, Idaho; interment was in Hillcrest Cemetery. He was survived by his wife and one daughter.
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| Preceded by George E. Chamberlain |
U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Oregon 1921-1927 |
Succeeded by Frederick Steiwer |
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