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Portland, Oregon. Political party. Republican. Josiah Failing (July 9, 1806 – August 14, 1877) was a businessman and the fourth mayor of Portland, Oregon, United States. Born in New York, he moved to Portland when it was still a small town of a few hundred. He and his son Henry, who also became a noted businessman and mayor of the city ...
Henry Failing (January 17, 1834 – November 8, 1898) was a banker, and one of the leading businessmen of the Pacific Northwest of the United States.He was one of Portland, Oregon's earliest residents, and served as that city's mayor in two non-consecutive periods, two-and-a-half years (two 15-month terms) starting in 1864 and later a two-year term starting in 1873.
The historic building that has served as NCNM's main campus since 1996 was built in 1912 as an elementary school named Failing School (in honor of former mayor Josiah Failing) and from 1961 until the 1990s was a Portland Community College campus. [3] In 2009, these clinics were consolidated into one location on campus, the NCNM Clinic.
The Failing Office Building is a building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 31, 2007. The building was built during the rapid growth in Portland's business district after the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in 1905. It was built with six stories in 1907, with ...
The mayor of Portland, Oregon is the official head of the city of Portland, ... Josiah Failing (1806–1877) 1853–1854 5 William S. Ladd (1826–1893) 1854–1855 6
Death (s) 1. Injuries. Unknown. Arrested. 970+ [1] Starting in May 2020, protests following the murder of George Floyd were held in the city of Portland, Oregon, concurrent with protests in other cities in the United States and around the world. By July 2020, many of the protests, which had been held every day since May 28, drew more than 1,000 ...
Portland in 1853. The site of the future city of Portland, Oregon, was known to American, Canadian, and British traders, trappers and settlers of the 1830s and early 1840s as "The Clearing," [5] a small stopping place along the west bank of the Willamette River used by travelers en route between Oregon City and Fort Vancouver.
The KOIN Center building on SW 3rd. Portland architecture includes a number of notable buildings, a wide range of styles, and a few notable pioneering architects.. The scale of many projects is relatively small, as a result of the relatively small size of downtown-Portland blocks (200 feet by 200 feet) and strict height restrictions enacted to protect views of nearby Mount Hood from Portland's ...