Lew Frederick (born December 1951) is an American
Democratic politician, currently representing District 22 in the
Oregon Senate
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.
Early life and education
Born in
Pullman, Washington, Frederick grew up in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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, and
Atlanta
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,
Georgia
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. Frederick is the son of botanist Dr.
Lafayette Frederick
Lafayette Frederick (9 March 1923 - 29 December 2018) was an American plant pathologist, mycologist, and specialist in myxomycete ecology and systematics.
Career
In 1943, Frederick earned his bachelor's degree at the Tuskegee Institute in Alaba ...
, Professor Emeritus
Howard University
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, and his wife Antoinette Reed Frederick. Frederick has lived in northeast
Portland since 1974.
Career
Throughout his career, he was a teacher at the
Metropolitan Learning Center for two years, a radio and television reporter with
KGW for seventeen years, Director of Public Information at
Portland Public Schools for thirteen years, Assistant to the President at
Portland Community College
Portland Community College (PCC) is a public community college in Portland, Oregon. It is the largest post-secondary institution in the state and serves residents in the five-county area of Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill, Clackamas, and Colum ...
, and held a position on the State Board of Education.
In October 2013, Frederick was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award at
Earlham College
Earlham College is a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. The college was established in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and has a strong focus on Quaker values such as integrity, a commitment to peace and social ...
.
Frederick was sworn into the Oregon House of Representatives in October 2009 and began serving on the House Interim Human Services Committee and House Interim Sustainability & Economic Development Committee.
According to the ''
Portland Tribune
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'', he was Oregon's "highest-ranking black leader and the only black man serving in the Oregon Legislature" as of 2010.
Commissioner
Amanda Fritz and ''
The Skanner'' endorsed Frederick during his campaign for District 43.
Frederick, formerly a member of the House Joint Committee on Legislative Audits, Information Management and Technology, has moved into the leadership ranks through his new Committee assignments. Frederick's 2013 Regular Session assignments are as Vice-Chair, Land Use Committee; and both the Ways and Means Committee, per se, as well as the Ways and Means Subcommittee On Education.
Lew Frederick maintains a research and strategy affiliation with the California and
Washington, D.C.
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-based company, The Rand Reed Group, an applied anthropological consultancy run by Kathleen Rand Reed.
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Cultural Systems Analysis Group (CUSAG), University of Maryland, College Park.
Fredrick supports reparations for the descendants of slaves, and on January 11, 2021 proposed Oregon State Bill 619 to direct the Oregon Department of Revenue to pay individuals who could demonstrate heritage in slavery $123,000 as an annual annuity. Despite misreporting and misreading to the contrary, SB 619 would create an annuity of $123,000 which is paid annually, rather than a sum of $123,000 paid annually.
See also
*
76th Oregon Legislative Assembly
The 76th Oregon Legislative Assembly convened beginning on , for the first of its two regular sessions. All 60 seats of the House of Representatives and 16 of the 30 state senate seats were up for election in 2010. The general election for those s ...
References
External links
Official site
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1951 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
African-American state legislators in Oregon
Journalists from Portland, Oregon
Democratic Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives
Democratic Party Oregon state senators
Portland Community College faculty
21st-century African-American politicians
20th-century African-American people