Charles Byron Bellinger
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| Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
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In office April 15, 1893 – May 12, 1905 |
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| Nominated by | Grover Cleveland |
| Preceded by | Matthew Deady |
| Succeeded by | Charles E. Wolverton |
| Member of the Oregon House of Representatives | |
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In office 1868–1869 |
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| Constituency | Benton County |
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| Born | November 21, 1839 Maquon, Illinois |
| Died | May 12, 1905 (aged 65) Portland, Oregon |
| Political party | Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret S. Johnson |
Charles Byron Bellinger (November 21, 1839 – May 12, 1905) was a federal district court judge in Portland, Oregon, United States. A native of Illinois, he also served as a state circuit court judge in Oregon, fought in the Modoc War in 1873, and was a newspaper editor. Politically, he previously served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and as clerk to the Oregon Supreme Court.
Charles Bellinger was born in Maquon, Illinois on November 21, 1839. In 1847, with his parents, Edward H. Bellinger and Eliza Howard Bellinger, Charles moved to Oregon Country. The following year the region became the Oregon Territory, and was admitted to the Union in 1859. Bellinger received his education at a school near the Santiam River where his teacher was Orange Jacobs, later a judge and politician in Washington. Later, Bellinger enrolled at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he attended for two years. He left Willamette in order to read law under attorney and later judge Benjamin F. Bonham, after which he passed the bar in 1863. Bellinger practiced law briefly before moving to the newspaper business and was an editor for the Salem paper, The Arena. He later worked for the Salem Argus before becoming a merchant in Monroe, Oregon, in 1866.
In 1868, Bellinger began one term in the Oregon House of Representatives, representing Benton County. The next year he moved to Albany, Oregon, where he worked as editor of the States Rights Democrat newspaper, now Albany Democrat-Herald. In 1870, he left the paper and moved to Portland where he edited the Portland Daily News, and the following year served as a prosecuting attorney for the state. Bellinger remained with the newspaper until 1890, but worked as a prosecuting attorney until 1872.
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