Other High Offices Held
This is a table of congressional seats, other federal offices, and other governorships held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Oregon except where noted.
- * Denotes those offices that the governor resigned to take.
| Name | Gubernatorial term | U.S. Congress | Other offices held | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House | Senate | ||||
| Joseph Lane | 1848–1850 1853–1853 |
S | Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon Territory | ||
| John P. Gaines | 1850–1853 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky | |||
| John W. Davis | 1853–1854 | U.S. Representative from Indiana; United States Commissioner to China | |||
| John Whiteaker | 1859–1862 | H | |||
| George L. Woods | 1911–1915 | Governor of Utah Territory | |||
| La Fayette Grover | 1866–1877 | H | S* | ||
| William Paine Lord | 1895–1899 | United States Minister to Argentina | |||
| George Chamberlain | 1903–1909 | S* | |||
| Walter M. Pierce | 1923–1927 | H | |||
| Charles H. Martin | 1935–1939 | H | |||
| Douglas McKay | 1949–1952 | United States Secretary of the Interior* | |||
| Mark Hatfield | 1959–1967 | S | |||
| Neil Goldschmidt | 1987–1991 | United States Secretary of Transportation | |||
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