John Rogers McBride (August 22, 1832 – July 20, 1904) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a

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U.S. congressman from

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from 1863 to 1865.

Early life

McBride was born near

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in 1832, the son of James McBride. In 1851, he moved with his family to

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, where he became the superintendent of schools at the age of 22. He studied law and after being admitted to the bar in 1855, he began a law practice in Lafayette.

Oregon politics

In 1857, he served in the

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representing

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. In 1860, he was elected to the

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, and to the

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as a

in 1862. He served one term, and after unsuccessfully seeking the Republican party's nomination for a second term in 1864, he was appointed Chief Justice of Idaho Territory by

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. In 1869, President Grant named him superintendent of the United States assay office in

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. He was a member of

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from the Idaho Territory in 1872, and a member of Republican National Committee from Washington from 1880 to 1892. He practiced law in Boise and in

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before moving his practice to

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, where he died in 1904. He was interred at Germany Hill Cemetery in

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Family

McBride's youngest brother,

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, served as a

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from Oregon. His other younger brother Thomas A. McBride was the chief justice of the

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at ''Crafting the Oregon Constitution'',

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McBride, John R. 1832 births 1904 deaths Republican Party Oregon state senators Politicians from St. Louis People from Lafayette, Oregon People from St. Helens, Oregon Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon 19th-century American politicians Members of the Oregon Constitutional Convention