Edith Green

November 17, 2007 - 10:55am

Some Tom McCall trivia

Tom McCall was the Governor from 1967 to 1975Tom McCall was the Governor from 1967 to 1975The later Governor Tom McCall was the grandson of Samuel McCall, a Massachusetts newspaper editor who served as a Congressman from 1892 to 1912, and as the Governor from 1916 to 1918. (Calvin Coolidge was Samuel McCall's Lieutenant Governor and succeeded him in 1918.)

McCall was a newspaper, radio and TV reporter – he worked for The Oregonian -- before entering politics in 1954 in a GOP primary against eight-term Congressman Homer Angell. He upset Angell in the primary, but lost the general election to Democrat Edith Green by a 52%-48% margin. Green remained in Congress for twenty years.

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