People from Pendleton, Oregon: Bob Jenson, Charles Samuel Jackson, Connie McCready, Cork Hubbert, Dan Straily, Dave Cockrum, Dave Kingman, David Nels

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Bob Jenson, Charles Samuel Jackson, Connie McCready, Cork Hubbert, Dan Straily, Dave Cockrum, Dave Kingman, David Nelson (politician), Elaine Miles, Frances Moore Lappe, George Amundson, George Augustus La Dow, George Christensen, George Hackathorne, Gordon H. Smith, Hank Vaughan, Harold J. Warner, James Alger Fee, James Lavadour, John Bunnell, John Kilkenny, John M. Gearin, Kenneth Snelson, Lee Moorhouse, Levi Branson Reeder, Mark Temple, Marty Wood, Michael J. Kopetski, Milan Smith, Quade Winter, Roy Schuening, Tracy Baker, William C. Perry. Excerpt: Gordon Harold Smith (born May 25, 1952) is a former United States Senator and businessman from the state of Oregon. A Republican, he served two terms in the Senate. Born in Eastern Oregon, Smith was raised there and in Maryland before attending Brigham Young University and Southwestern University School of Law. Prior to election to the U.S. Senate he served in the Oregon State Senate including one session as President of Oregon's Senate in 1995. Smith was defeated for reelection in 2008 by Democrat Jeff Merkley. On September 18, 2009, he was named as President of the National Association of Broadcasters. Smith was born in Pendleton, Oregon, to Jessica Udall Smith and Milan Dale Smith on May 25, 1952. Smith's family moved to Bethesda, Maryland during his childhood, when his father became an Assistant United States Secretary of Agriculture. He was involved with the Boy Scouts of America and earned the rank of Eagle Scout. After graduating from high school, Smith served for two years as a Mormon missionary to New Zealand. On March 31, 2012, Smith was called as an Area Authority Seventy for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Smith then went to college at Brigham Young University, received his Juris Doctor from Southwestern University School of Law, and became an attorney in New Mexico and Arizona. He moved back to Oregon in the 1980s to become director of the family owned Smith Frozen Foods company in Weston, Oregon. Smith and his wife Sharon adopted several children in the 1980s, including sons Morgan and Garrett and daughter Brittany. On September 8, 2003, Garrett, then a 21 year old college student majoring in culinary arts, committed suicide. Smith wrote a book entitled Remembering Garrett, One Family's Battle with a Child's Depression. In 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, authorizing $82 million for suicide-prevention and awareness programs at colleges. Smith is also a member of the Udall political family. His m