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Organic Laws of Oregon

Organic Laws of Oregon
Document NameOrganic Laws of Oregon
Image Width200px
Image CaptionSection II of the Organic Laws
Date Created1843
Date RatifiedJuly 5, 1843
Location Of DocumentOregon Country
WriterLegislative Committee
PurposeFramework for the Provisional Government of Oregon

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The Organic Laws of Oregon were two sets of laws passed in the 1840s that established a structure for government in the Oregon Country in the northwest corner of North America. These laws were created by a legislative committee formed after the Champoeg Meetings. At the last Champoeg Meeting in May 1843, the majority of voters from among the settlers of the Oregon Country voted to create what became the Provisional Government of Oregon. Laws were drafted by the committee and accepted by a popular vote in July. These laws were reformed by a second version in 1845.

The Organic Laws were based on the laws of Iowa Territory and compartmentalized the government into three branches consisting of an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judiciary. Once the Oregon Territory was formed in 1848, the territorial government took control of the laws and invalidated only one provision of the Organic Laws. On February 14, 1859, Oregon became a state and the Oregon Constitution became the legal framework for the state.

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Pioneer History of Oregon (1806 �1890)

TopicsAmerican Fur Company * Columbian Exchange * Executive Committee * Ferries * Hudson's Bay Company * Oregon & California Railroad * Oregon boundary dispute * Oregon Country * Oregon Lyceum * Oregon missionaries * Oregon Spectator * Oregon Territory * Oregon Trail * Oregon Treaty * Organic Laws * Pacific Fur Company * Provisional Government
EventsAstor Expedition * Treaty of 1818 * Russo-American Treaty * Willamette Cattle Company * Champoeg Meetings * Star of Oregon * Whitman massacre * Cayuse War * Donation Land Claim Act * Holmes v. Ford * Rogue River Wars * Constitutional Convention * Modoc War * Great Gale of 1880
PlacesApplegate Trail * Albina * Barlow Road * Canemah * Champoeg * Fort Astoria * Fort Dalles * Fort Vancouver * Fort William * French Prairie * Linn City * Meek Cutoff * Methodist Mission * Oregon City * Oregon Institute * Philip Foster Farm * Thomas and Ruckle Road * Tualatin Academy * Whitman Mission * Willamette Trading Post
PeopleGeorge Abernethy * Jesse Applegate * Ira Babcock * Sam Barlow * François Blanchet * Tabitha Brown * Matthew Deady * Abigail Scott Duniway * Thomas Lamb Eliot * Philip Foster * Peter French * Joseph Gale * Cornelius Gilliam * David Hill * Chief Joseph * Joseph Kellogg * H.A.G. Lee * Jason Lee * David Thomas Lenox * Asa Lovejoy * John McLoughlin * Joseph Meek * Ezra Meeker * James D. Miller * John Minto * Robert Newell * Joel Palmer * Osborne Russell * Sager orphans * Levi Scott * Henry Spalding * Elijah White * Marcus Whitman * Narcissa Whitman * Geo. H. Williams * Ewing Young
TransportationColumbia * Lot Whitcomb * Canemah * Colonel Wright * Gazelle * Oregon Steam Navigation Company
Oregon HistoryNative Peoples History * History to 1806 * Pioneer History * Modern History



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