Wayne Morse Historical Park Corporation

06/09/2025

Photos from the May 18th Open House at Wayne Morse Family Farm. Hot dogs and ice cream were a hit!

04/03/2025

Congratulations to Senator Cory Booker Senator Cory Booker for his highly impressive and inspiring speech, which set a historic U.S. Senate record of 25 hours. Senator Wayne Morse would be happy and proud that he broke the prior record set by Strom Thurmond, who, in 1957, beat Morse's record set in 1953.

Read more history in the Washington Post article.

Civil rights, health care and a local factory are among the topics to have compelled lawmakers to break the 20-hour mark on the Senate floor in past decades.

02/14/2025

Morse poster from 72 or 74 on eBay. This same type of poster was displayed for years at Cameron's book store in Portland on 3rd and Stark.

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12/12/2024

Former Congressman Jim Leach was the 1997 recipient of the Wayne Morse Integrity in Politics Award. He was presented with the award at a well-attended banquet in Eugene, Oregon in November 1997. Leach's former colleague and fellow moderate Republican Pete McCloskey from CA was one of the honored guests.

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Leach, a Republican, won election to the U.S. House in 1976 and went on to represent parts of eastern Iowa in Congress for 30 years.

10/01/2024

Happy 100th birthday JIMMY CARTER!

An interesting Oregon anecdote; the late State Senator and Oregon Supreme Court Justice Betty Roberts ran a strong race for Governor in the 1974 primary, finishing second to Bob Straub in a close three way primary (Jim Redden was third.) Senator Wayne Morse was attempting a second US Senate comeback and won the primary, but died in July. Betty was nominated by the Democratic Central Committee to replace him. In her memoir "With Grit and By Grace" she recalled that she had two choices for a national Democrat to appear at an event late in the campaign: Bob Strauss- the Chair of the DNC and Jimmy Carter in his last term as Governor of Georgia. She chose Strauss because he was better known (Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, who was head of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, also made an appearance for Roberts.)

Two years later Roberts was the co-chair of Carter's Presidential campaign in Oregon campaign, along with State Senator Fred Heard. She described the family rivalry- with her husband, State Rep Keith Skelton, supported Senator Frank Church of Idaho, who won the Oregon primary; Carter third (Governor Jerry Brown of CA finished second as a write in candidate). The rivalry apparently continued because, in Robert's' book, she stated that Carter won the primary.

Carter lost to President Ford by a very narrow margin in November, largely because Eugene McCarthy won 4%—his best national showing—as a spoiler third-party candidate. In 1980, Carter beat Ted Kennedy in the primary. His final two rallies in the 1980 General election campaign were held in Portland and Seattle the night before Election Day, but Reagan won 48% to 38%, close to the national results. Independent John Anderson won almost 10% in Oregon, one of his strongest showings.

President Carter has returned to Oregon a number of times over the years for fishing and book signings at Powell's Books, Inc. I regret I never attended one. Carter is often called our best ex-president, but he didn't get enough credit for his accomplishments as president.

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05/10/2024

Pete McCloskey attended the 1997 Wayne Morse Integrity in Politics Award banquet in support of his fellow liberal Republican- and winner of the award- U.S. Rep Jim leach from Iowa

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Colorful Republican called for Nixon’s resignation, opposed Vietnam War, co-founded Earth Day

05/07/2024

https://www.kezi.com/video/annual-open-house-celebrates-oregon-senator-who-fought-for-civil-rights/video_b3184f3b-f015-5800-91e0-7cbc30db53f0.html

From KEZI 9 News

Eugene residents took a step back in time with a celebration at the historic Wayne Morse Family Farm in the South Hills.

04/19/2024

04/16/2024

https://www.registerguard.com/obituaries/pore0786291

July 11, 1930 - April 7, 2024 Nancie Peacocke Fadeley lived her life in service to her community and to her state. She was an amazing Oregonian....