James Weaver

March 18, 2008 - 8:09am

Oregon's oldest living Congressman, and how Les AuCoin got to Washington

By Wally Edge
Tags: Richard Nixon, Robert Smith, Tom McCall, Darlene Hooley, Ron Wyden, Jim Bunn, Les AuCoin, Denny Smith, Mike Kopetski, Wendell Wyatt, Diarmuid O’Scannlain, Wes Cooley, Robert Duncan, Elizabeth Furse, James Weaver, Ralph Bunch

In January, Darlene Hooley will become the twelfth  living former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon.  Oregon’s oldest living former Congressman is Wendell Wyatt, a Republican who will celebrate his 91st birthday on June 15.  Wyatt, an ex-FBI agent and the Republican State Chairman from 1955 to 1957, won election to Congress in a 1964 special election and easily held the seat in subsequent races; Wyatt won 69% in 1972, running twelve percentage points ahead of GOP presidential candidate Richard Nixon.

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