Biography

Hector "Huck" Macpherson, Jr. was born in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1918. His family moved to a dairy farm in Oakville, Oregon, when he was around 6 years old. He graduated from Oregon State College (now Oregon State University) with a degree in agricultural technology in 1940. He signed up for the Reserve Officer Training Corps while still in college, and served as an aerial photographer and then a bombing navigator until 1945. He and Katharine “Kitty” Brownell Smith were married in 1943; they had five children. He was a dairy farmer and a Republican politician. He represented Linn County in the Oregon Senate from 1971 to 1974. He was appointed to the Land Conservation and Development Commission by Governor Neil Goldschmidt, serving from 1990 to 2000. He died in 2015.

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