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1962 United States Senate election in Oregon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7891903 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1962 United States Senate election in Oregon was held on November 8, 1962, to select the U.S. Senator from the state of Oregon. Democratic Senator Wayne Morse decided to seek re-election for a fourth term. He defeated Republican candidate Sig Unander in the general election. This would be the last time Democrats won the Class 3 Senate seat from Oregon until Ron Wyden's victory in the 1996 special election.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1962 United States Senate election in Oregon” as election. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where United, States and Senate can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as election. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7891903. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1962 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “1962 United States Senate election in Oregon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.