Robert Straub

Tom 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.