| Oregon Republican Party | |
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| Chairman | Allen Alley |
| Senate leader | Minority Leader Ted Ferrioli |
| House leader | Co-House Speaker Bruce Hanna |
| Founded | 1859 |
| Headquarters | 311 B Ave, Suite N (2nd Floor); Lake Oswego, OR 97034[1] |
| National affiliation | Republican Party |
| Seats in the Upper House |
14 / 30
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| Seats in the Lower House |
30 / 60
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| Website | |
| www.orgop.org | |
| Politics of the United States Political parties Elections |
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The Oregon Republican Party is the state affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Oregon, headquartered in Lake Oswego.[2] The first state party convention was held in Salem on April 21, 1859, and its first nominee for Congress, Portland attorney David Logan.[3] The Oregon Republican Party is currently chaired by former gubernatorial candidate Allen Alley.[4]
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In May 1856, the first Republican meeting in Oregon was held in Jackson County to nominate county officers and to adopt a platform declaring freedom throughout the United States. On August 20th 1856, Republicans in the Oregon Territory met in Albany and organized the Oregon Republican Party. At this meeting steps were taken to organize county and precinct conventions.[5]
Originally from Illinois and a good friend to Abraham Lincoln, Edward Dickinson Baker moved to Oregon and became a U.S. Senator in 1860. When the Civil War started in 1861 he raised his own militia and liked to dress in full uniform in front of colleagues in Congress. On October 21, 1861, with Congress out of session, Colonel Baker and his men met Confederate forces on a hill called Ball's Bluff just outside of Washington, D.C. Shortly after the battle started Baker was killed along with nearly 1,000 other men. The disaster sparked the formation of the toughest investigation committee in history, the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War.
During World War II congressmen were commonly seen serving with their units in combat zones but the War Department quickly banned all congress members from serving on active duty, forever making Edward Dickinson Baker the only U.S. congressman to ever lose his life in a military engagement.[6]
The party believes that the death penalty should be enforced, mandatory minimum sentencing for violent offenders, victims rights and in truth in sentencing.[7]
The party believes in lower taxes, free market, individual control and non government involvement.[8]
The party believes that all children should have a right to have access to a quality education, parents have the responsibility to educate their children, and that basic skills and fluency in English should be emphasised.[9]
The party believes in minimal government intervention and that all regulation should strive to cause the least harm on business.[10]
The party believes that legal recognition of marriage should be restricted to those between one man and one woman, that government involvement in family matters should be kept at a minimum, and that local governments have the right to intervene when parents are deemed unfit. The party opposed human trafficking.[11]
The party believes that foreign relations should be based on the security of the United States.[12]
The party believes that the government should exercise fiscal responsibility and there should be no unfunded mandates or bailouts.[13]
The party supports health care reforms that lower costs, eliminate government barriers and allow citizens to make their own health care decisions.[14]
The party recognizes the benefits of legal immigration, opposes amnesty, supports English as the official language, supports a simplified guest worker program. It believes the right to vote should only be earned through naturalization, and that citizenship for children should be granted if one or more of their parents are a U.S. citizen.[15]
The party stands for the protection of individual rights.[16]
The party believes supports a renewable and sustainable timber industry, ahealthy and productive agricultural and tourist industries, and that water rights are real property.[17]
The party opposes mandatory retirement, age-based discrimination and taxation of Social Security income. It supports permanent separation of Social Security funds from the general fund, and believes that all pensions except Social Security should be taxed equally.[18]
The party supports only those regulations that support free enterprise and personal freedoms.[19]
The party supports the individual's right to keep and bear arms.[20]
The party believes that voters should prove U.S. citizenship, supports transparency, opposes voting by mail, and supports the Electoral College.[21]
Republican nominees have won 25 of Oregon's 38 Presidential popular votes.[22]
Chairman: Allen Alley
Vice Chairman: Tim Smith
Treasurer: Rob Kremer
Secretary: Darlien France
National Committeeman: Solomon Yule
National Committeewoman: Donna Cain
The Oregon Republican Party holds split control over the Oregon House of Representatives and 14 of the 30 Oregon Senate seats. It also holds one of the state's five U.S. House seats and neither of the two U.S. Senate seats.
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