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32 A. A. Hemingway, M. Wilkins; Benton, A. N. Withan, C. P. Blair; Linn, H. D. Brown, John Smith, William McCoy, A. .A. McCully; Marion, I. R. Moores, Joseph Engle, C. A. Reed, John Minto; Polk, B. Simpson, G. W. Richardson; Yamhill, Joel Palmer, John Cummings; Washington, R. Wilcox; Washington and Columbia, E. W. Conyers; Clackamas, F. A. Collard, M. Ramsby, J. T. Kean; Multnomah, A. J. Dufur, P. Wasserman; Clatsop and Tillamook, P. W. Gillette; Wasco, 0. Humason. Joel Palmer was elected speaker, and S. T. Church chief clerk.

A joint convention was held for the election of a senator to fill the unexpired term of Colonel Baker. The vote for a long time was about equally divided between B. F. Harding and George H. Williams, with a few votes for the Rev. Thomas H..Pearne, but the Salem clique was too much for me again, and on the thirtieth ballot Harding was elected.

Public attention was absorbed by the war in 1863, and there were no political movements of any note in Oregon in that year. In March, 1864, a union convention was held at Albany, of which Wilson Bowlby was president and W. C. Whitson secretary. J. H. D. Henderson was nominated for congress; George L. Woods, N. H. George and J. F. Gazley for presidential electors. Delegates to the national convention were Thomas H. Pearne, J. W. Souther, M. Hirsch, Josiah Failing, H. Smith and T. Charman. They were instructed to vote for the renomination of Abraham Lincoln. R. E. Stratton was nominated for Judge of the Second Judicial District and James F. Watson for District Attorney. In the third district, R. P. Boise -was named for Judge and Rufus Mallory for District Attorney, and in the fifth district, J. G.Wilson for Judge and C. R. Meigs for District Attorney.