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The Provisional Government of Oregon was a popularly elected settler government created in the Oregon Country, in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Its formation had been advanced at the Champoeg Meetings since February 17, 1841, and it existed from May 2, 1843 until March 3, 1849, and provided a legal system and a common defense amongst the mostly American pioneers settling an ...
- Republic
- Part of the United States (1846–1849)
The Provisional Government, created in May-July 1843, was the first governmental structure created by non-Natives on the Pacific Coast of North America. Launched in an effort to secure an American rule of law in the Oregon Country, the Provisional Government was formed at a time when the region was open to eventual control by either Great ...
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The Oregon Provisional Government was formed with the passing of the Organic Law on July 5, 1843, following the Champoeg meetings that May, where Euro-American emigrants and Hudson's Bay Company employees voted on whether to establish a provisional government for the Oregon country.
Public Meeting at Champoeg, 1843. On May 2, 1843, Willamette Valley settlers met at Champoeg to vote on the formation of a provisional government. The minutes recorded by George Le Breton recount the vote in favor of the provisional government (which historians later estimated to be 52-50) and the subsequent appointments of settlers to fill the ...
The Provisional Legislature of Oregon was the single-chamber legislative body of the Provisional Government of Oregon. It served the Oregon Country of the Pacific Northwest of North America from 1843 until early 1849 at a time when no country had sovereignty over the region. This democratically elected legislature became the Oregon Territorial ...
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- 9 (1843–1844), 13 (1845), 17 (1846), 19 (1847–1849)
- 1843
- Unicameral
The Provisional Government was established July 5, 1843. Executive power was given to a 3-person committee elected by popular vote. The Organic Act of 1845 replaced the executive committee with an elected "Executive of Oregon," also known as governor. The first governor of the provisional government, George Abernethy, was in office July 14 ...
A new territorial government was formed after 1848 when Oregon was organized as an official United States territory. The presidentially appointed governor of the Oregon Territory, Joseph Lane, arrived March 3, 1849, and he officially ended the provisional government by declaring that U.S. laws and government were in effect over the territory.
