...that Thomas Milton Gatch (pictured), an Ohioan educator and politician, was the first president of Oregon State University to hold a doctorate degree?
...that The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening’s father was a founding director of the American Advertising Museum in Portland, Oregon?
...that though Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Oregon Governor, he was the first native Oregonian to serve in that office?
... that Oregon judge Marco A. Hernandez was nominated to serve in the federal courts by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama?

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