Burt Barker
Burt Brown Barker (November 3, 1873 – January 29, 1969) was a lawyer, arts advocate, university administrator, federal program administrator, regional historian and preservationist. Over the course of his long life he extensively researched the people and places of his home state and was described as the "grand old man of Oregon history." Born in Waitsburg, Washington, and raised in Salem in northwestern Oregon, Barker was a school friend of future U.S. president Herbert Hoover. Educated at Willamette University, University of Chicago, and Harvard Law School, Barker worked as a lawyer in Chicago and New York before he joined University of Oregon in 1928 as vice president and acting president. He was heavily involved in organizing and funding the creation of the campus' Dads' Gates. Barker commissioned or purchased the campus statue '' Pioneer Mother'' from artist Alexander Phimister Proctor. ''Pioneer Mother'' was either dedicated to or modeled after Barker's mother, El ...
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