Speaker of the Oregon Territory House of Representatives
In office July 16, 1849 – September 29, 1849
Preceded by
Levi A. Rice (Provisional Legislature)
Succeeded by
Ralph Wilcox
Constituency
Clackamas County
Delegate to the Oregon Constitutional Convention
In office August 17, 1857 – September 18, 1857
Constituency
Clackamas County
Personal details
Born
(1808-03-14)March 14, 1808 Groton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
September 10, 1882(1882-09-10) (aged 74) Oregon, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Elizabeth McGary
Asa Lawrence Lovejoy (March 14, 1808 – September 10, 1882) was an American pioneer and politician in the region that would become the U.S. state of Oregon. He is best remembered as a founder of the city of Portland, Oregon. He was an attorney in Boston, Massachusetts before traveling by land to Oregon; he was a legislator in the Provisional Government of Oregon, mayor of Oregon City, and a general during the Cayuse War that followed the Whitman massacre in 1847. He was also a candidate for Provisional Governor in 1847, before the Oregon Territory was founded, but lost that election.
Lovejoy continued his political career during territorial period as a member of both chambers of the Oregon Territorial Legislature; he served as the first Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in 1849. He was also a delegate to the Oregon Constitutional Convention held in 1857 that paved the way for Oregon's entry into the Union. He was part owner of the Oregon Telegraph newspaper, and worked on railroad development in the Willamette Valley after leaving politics.[1] Lovejoy Street in Northwest Portland and the Lovejoy Fountain in Downtown Portland are named in his honor.
^Lovejoy Fountain Park. Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine Portland Parks & Recreation. Retrieved on September 28, 2007.
Asa Lawrence Lovejoy (March 14, 1808 – September 10, 1882) was an American pioneer and politician in the region that would become the U.S. state of Oregon...
Groening has indicated that Lovejoy is named after Lovejoy Street (which in turn is named for Portland co-founder AsaLovejoy) in Portland, Oregon, the...
Portland's two founders, Francis Pettygrove from Portland, Maine and AsaLovejoy from Boston, Massachusetts, both wanted to name the fledgling site—then...
electronically by the scoring apparatus.[citation needed] In the United States AsaLovejoy and Francis W. Pettygrove, who each owned the claim to the land that...
land claim on which he and AsaLovejoy laid out a town named Portland after the port city in Pettygrove's home state. Lovejoy preferred Boston, but Pettygrove...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
named in honor of AsaLovejoy, one of the first landowners of the Portland town site. The Portland Penny, which was used by Lovejoy and Pettygrove to...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
1847 with the endorsement of the influential Dr. John McLoughlin over AsaLovejoy, co-founder of Portland. Among the more interesting prerogatives of Abernethy...
of statehood. The convention assembled at the Salem Courthouse, with AsaLovejoy named president pro tem of the gathering. On the following day Judge...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
Americans could not reside in the Oregon Country, only David Hill and AsaLovejoy voting against the bill. The punishment for any freemen was to be administered...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
Chief Joseph Joseph Kellogg H.A.G. Lee Jason Lee David Thomas Lenox AsaLovejoy Morton M. McCarver John McLoughlin Joseph Meek Ezra Meeker James D. Miller...
wrong. Whitman had opposed closing the Waiilatpu Mission, as suggested by Asa Bowen Smith in 1840, because he thought it would allow "the Catholics to...
in 1845. That same year, the settlement was named by early residents AsaLovejoy and Francis Pettygrove. Filing a provisional land claim of 640 acres...
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