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William M. La Force, b. 1853 Missouri to Oregon
Posted by: Tony Larson (ID *****4612)	Date: May 25, 2006 at 20:17:16
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Oregon Republican League:

Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 232.

LA FORCE, WILLIAM M,. an attorney of Astoria, was born in Carthage, Missouri, September 11, 1853. Went to Greene County, Illinois, in 1861, but returned to Carthage in 1866. In 1873 he began teaching school and entered the University of Missouri in 1874, graduating in 1880. Was principal of the high school at Carrollton, Illinois, in 1880, and at Carthage, Missouri, from 1881 to 1883, when he was admitted to the bar, and began practicing at Carthage. In 1884 he was secretary of the congressional central committee, and in 1885 was elected secretary of the congressional central committee, and in 1885 was elected City Attorney. He soon removed to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he took an active part in politics as a Republican till 1892, where he came to Oregon and began practicing in Astoria.

-Tony Larson

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