The meetings eventually culminated on May 2, 1843, with the creation of the Provisional Government of Oregon. Among the actions to come out of the May 2 session was the election of three public ...

In June of 1845 -- 170 years ago this month -- he was the first and only person ever elected to serve as the governor of the Provisional Government of Oregon.

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He later became a justice of the peace for the local government in the Willamette Valley. Cannon was one of 52 men who voted in 1843 for the Provisional Government of Oregon at the famous meeting ...

The European Union voiced disapproval on Wednesday of the Taliban's provisional government in Afghanistan after the Islamist militants named several leaders, saying they had not kept a promise to ...

In theory, Oregon officials have some 40 billion reasons to be anxious about federal funding from the Trump administration. That’s roughly how much money lawmakers expected from federal funds ...