Earl T. Newbry

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Earl T. Newbry

|image = Earl T. Newbry 1950.jpg

|imagesize = 125px

|caption = Newbry in 1950

|office =15th Secretary of State of Oregon

|term_start = November 3, 1947

|term_end = January 7, 1957

|governor = John H. Hall
Douglas McKay
Paul L. Patterson
Elmo Smith

|predecessor = Robert S. Farrell, Jr.

|successor = Mark O. Hatfield

|office2 = Member of the Oregon House of Representatives

|term2 = 1939–1942

|predecessor2 =

|successor2 =

|constituency2 = Jackson County

|office3 =

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|birth_date = April 15, 1900

|birth_place = Rocky Ford, Colorado, U.S.

|death_date ={{Death date and age|1995|9|2|1900|4|15}}

|death_place =Ashland, Oregon, U.S.

|party = Republican

|occupation =Businessman

}}

Earl T. Newbry (April 15, 1900 – September 2, 1995) was an American businessman and politician from the state of Oregon. A native of Colorado, he served as the twenty-fifth Secretary of State of Oregon after appointment by Oregon Governor John Hubert Hall. A Republican, he previously served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives and three terms in the Oregon State Senate.

Early life

Earl Newbry was born in Rocky Ford, Colorado, on April 15, 1900.{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Earl T. Newbry|work=Social Security Death Index|publisher=MyFamily.com Inc.|accessdate=2008-11-19}} He and his family came to Oregon in the early 1920s. They established themselves in Jackson County in the city of Ashland. Newbry managed a fruit growing and packing firm in the Rogue River Valley before entering politics.{{cite web|url=http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/RecordView/7589712|title=Oregon Secretary of State Agency History, page 15 |work=Oregon Blue Book|publisher=Oregon Secretary of State|accessdate=April 28, 2021}}

Political career

Newbry ran for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives and won the House District 19 seat which at the time was Jackson County in 1938.Snell, Earl. Oregon Blue Book. Salem, Oregon: Office of the Secretary of State, 1938 He served in the Oregon House for the 1939 and 1941 legislative sessions. A Republican from Ashland, he was then elected to the Oregon Senate representing District 6 in 1942.{{cite web|url=https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/records/legislators_guide.aspx|title=1943 Regular Session (42nd)|work=Oregon Legislators and Staff Guide|publisher=Oregon State Archives|accessdate=2008-11-20}} Newbry served in the state senate during the 1943, 1945, and 1947 sessions of the Oregon Legislature.

In late October 1947, Governor Earl Snell, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., and Senate President Marshall Cornell were killed in a plane accident near Dog Lake, Oregon, while on their way to a hunting trip.{{cite news|url=http://www.articlearchives.com/government/elections-politics-politics/557288-1.html|title=Crash changed Oregon|date=October 28, 2007|work=The Register-Guard|accessdate=2008-11-20}} As the first two successors were killed along with the Oregon Governor, the Speaker of the House, John Hubert Hall, became governor.{{cite news|title=GOP pipeline to top office trickles; Columns|last=Sadler|first=Russell|date=March 14, 2005|work=The Register-Guard|pages=A9}} Hall's first act as governor was to appoint Newbry as Oregon Secretary of State.{{cite web|url=https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/records/governors_guides.aspx|title=Governor John H. Hall's Administration: Governor's Message, 1949|publisher=Oregon State Archives|accessdate=2008-11-20}}

In office, Newbry was responsible for creating branch offices of the Department of Motor Vehicles across the state and implementing the use of permanent license plates in the state.{{cite news|title=History-making ex-legislators recall old times|last=Ellis|first=Barnes C.|date=August 31, 1987|work=The Oregonian|pages=B3}} He won election to a full term in office in 1948 and then won re-election in 1952, defeating Edith Green;{{cite journal

|title=The 1954 Election in Oregon

|first=John M.

|last=Swarthout

|volume= 7| issue = 4

|date=December 1954

|pages=620–625

|jstor=442815

|journal=The Western Political Quarterly

|doi=10.2307/442815

}} in 1949 he declined to seek the Republican nomination for governor.{{cite news |title=1950 Race Eschewed by Newbry |work=The Oregonian |page=1 |date=September 17, 1949 }}

Newbry remained in office until January 7, 1957.{{cite web|url=https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/explore/notable/secretaries-of-state.aspx|title=Secretaries of State of Oregon|work=Oregon Blue Book|publisher=Oregon Secretary of State|accessdate=2008-11-20}}

He was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1954, losing the Republican primary to Paul L. Patterson.

Later years

After leaving office, he returned to Southern Oregon and resumed his business career. Earl T. Newbry died on September 2, 1995, in Ashland, Oregon.

Electoral history

class="wikitable" ! colspan="3" \| 1952 Republican primary
Candidate Name ! colspan="2" \| Votes Newbry, Earl.Oregon Blue Book, Office of the Secretary of State, 1954
Earl T. Newbry \|230,232

class="wikitable"

! colspan="3" | 1952 Republican primary

Candidate Name

! colspan="2" | Votes Newbry, Earl.Oregon Blue Book, Office of the Secretary of State, 1954

Earl T. Newbry

|230,232

class="wikitable" ! colspan="3" \| 1952 General Election
Candidate Name ! colspan="2" \| Votes Newbry, Earl.Oregon Blue Book, Office of the Secretary of State, 1955
Earl T. Newbry (R) \|370,216
Edith Green (D) \|301,894

class="wikitable"

! colspan="3" | 1952 General Election

Candidate Name

! colspan="2" | Votes Newbry, Earl.Oregon Blue Book, Office of the Secretary of State, 1955

Earl T. Newbry (R)

|370,216

Edith Green (D)

|301,894