People and the Land: An Oral History of Oregon’s Statewide Land Use Planning Program
Interview with Chief Justice Wallace P. Carson, Jr.
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Interview Date
6-29-2015
Publication Date
2015
Subjects
Land use -- Oregon -- Planning
Abstract
Interview with Chief Justice Wallace P. Carson, Jr. by Katherine Daniels on July 1, 2015. Chief Justice Wallace Carson was the longest-serving Chief Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court (fourteen years, 1991-2005). He served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives and was an Oregon Senator from 1970-77. He helped to pass the Oregon bottle bill, greenway bill, and other land use legislation.
Biographical
Chief Justice Wallace Carson was the longest-serving Chief Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court (fourteen years, 1991-2005). He served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives and was an Oregon Senator from 1970-77. He helped to pass the Oregon bottle bill, greenway bill, and other land use legislation. He was appointed to the Circuit Court of Marion County by Governor Robert Straub and to the Oregon Supreme Court by Governer Vic Atiyeh in 1982.
Katherine Daniels is the Farm and Forest Lands Specialist for the Department of Land Conversation and Development.
Rights
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Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16315
Disciplines
Urban Studies and Planning
Recommended Citation
Carson, Wallace P. Jr. and Daniels, Katherine, "Interview with Chief Justice Wallace P. Carson, Jr." (2015). People and the Land: An Oral History of Oregon’s Statewide Land Use Planning Program. 17.