Earl Blumenauer
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon's 3rd district |
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Assumed office May 21, 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Ron Wyden |
| Member of the Portland City Commission for Position 2 |
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In office January 5, 1987 – May 25, 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Mildred Schwab |
| Succeeded by | Erik Sten |
| Member of the Oregon House of Representatives from the 11th district |
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In office January 8, 1973 – January 1, 1979 |
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| Preceded by | John W. Anunsen |
| Succeeded by | Rick Bauman |
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August 16, 1948 Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Kirkpatrick |
| Alma mater | Lewis and Clark College |
Earl Blumenauer /ˈbluːmənˌaʊər/ (born August 16, 1948) is the U.S. Representative for Oregon's 3rd congressional district, serving since 1996. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes most of Portland east of the Willamette River. He previously spent over 20 years as a public official in Portland, including serving on the Portland City Council from 1987 to 1996.
Blumenauer was born in Portland on August 16, 1948. In 1966, he graduated from Centennial High School on the eastside of Portland and then enrolled at Lewis & Clark College in the southwest part of the city. He majored in political science and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lewis & Clark in 1970. Blumenauer completed his education in 1976 when he earned a Juris Doctor degree from the school's Northwestern School of Law (now Lewis & Clark Law School). Starting before law school in 1970 and continuing until 1977, he worked as an assistant to the president of Portland State University.
In 1969–70, Blumenauer organized and led Oregon's "Go 19" campaign, an effort to lower the state voting age (while then unsuccessful it supported the national trend which soon resulted in the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution which lowered the voting age to 18). In 1972, he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives as a Democrat representing District 11 in Multnomah County. He won re-election in 1974 and 1976, and continued representing Portland and Multnomah County until the 1979 legislative session. From 1975 to 1981 he served on the board of Portland Community College. Following his time in the Oregon Legislature, he served on the Multnomah County Commission from 1979 to 1986. He lost a race for Portland City Council to Margaret Strachan in 1981. He left the county commission in March 1986 to run again for city council.
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