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List Of People From Hillsboro, Oregon
The following is a partial list of notable residents, past and present, from Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. A separate list of people from Oregon is available.
Mayors
*Harry T. Bagley"Mayors: City of Hillsboro", ''The Hillsboro Argus'', October 19, 1976, The Hub, p. 6.
*William N. Barrett
*Steve Callaway
*Benjamin P. Cornelius
*Rodolph Crandall
*Miller M. Duris
*Gordon Faber [Mayors]
. City of Hillsboro. Retrieved on June 20, 2015.
*Joseph C. Hare [
*William D. Hare][
*Shirley Huffman][
*Tom Hughes (Oregon politician), Tom Hughes][Anderson, David R. "How to Grow: The big question for Hillsboro", ''The Oregonian'', October 19, 2000, West Zoner p. 19.]
*Samuel B. Huston[
*Thomas H. Tongue][
*Charles T. Tozier][
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Hillsboro, Oregon
Hillsboro ( ) is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. Situated in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city hosts many high-technology companies, such as Intel, locally known as the Silicon Forest. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 106,447.
For thousands of years the Atfalati tribe of the Kalapuya lived in the Tualatin Valley near the later site of Hillsboro. The climate, moderated by the Pacific Ocean, helped make the region suitable for fishing, hunting, food gathering, and agriculture. Settlers founded a community here in 1842, later named after David Hill, an Oregon politician. Transportation by riverboat on the Tualatin River was part of Hillsboro's settler economy. A railroad reached the area in the early 1870s and an interurban electric railway about four decades later. These railways, as well as highways, aided the slow growth of the city to about 2,000 people ...
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