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Rh Thomas R. Cornelius; Wasco and Clackamas, Aaron E. Wait; Yamhill and Clatsop, Thomas Scott. House—Benton, Reuben C. Hill, James H. Slater; Clackamas, George Reese, F. A. Collard, S. P. Gilliland; Clatsop, Joseph Jeffries; Coos and Curry, T. J. Kirkpatrick; Columbia, Francis M. Warren; Douglas, Albert A. Matthew; Jackson, H. H. Brown, William M. Hughes; Josephine, J. G. Spear; Jackson and Josephine, R. S. Belknap; Linn, Anderson Cox, A. H. Cranor, H. M. Brown; Lane, John Whiteaker, J. W. Mack; Marion, Jacob Woodsides, George M. Able, Eli C. Cooley; Multnomah, William M. King; Polk and Tillamook, Benjamin Hayden; Polk, Ira F. M. Butler; Umpqua, James Cole; Washington and Multnomah, Thomas J. Dryer; Washington, H. V. N. Johnson; Wasco, N. H. Gates; Yamhill, Andrew Shuck, William Allen.

James Buchanan was inaugurated March 4, 1857. His message to congress was largely devoted to the absorbing slavery question, the fugitive slave law, and the government of Kansas. His cabinet was as follows: Lewis Cass, of Michigan, Secretary of State; R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, Secretary of the Treasury; John Appleton, of Maine, Secretary of the Interior; Ho well Cobb, of Georgia, Secretary of the Navy; James A. Bayard, of Delaware, Secretary of War; James D. Bright, of Indiana, Postmaster-General.

I was reappointed Chief Justice of Oregon by Mr. Buchanan, but soon after resigned. Buchanan's appointments for Oregon, under the new state government, were as follows: M. P. Deady, United States District Judge; A. J. Thayer, United States District Attorney; D. B. Hannah, United States Marshal. James W. Nesmith was Superintendent of Indian affairs in 1857.

In February, 1857, there was a free state convention at Albany, of which W. T. Matlock was president, and