Hector Macpherson, Jr.

Hector Huck Macpherson, Jr. was an American dairy farmer and politician in the state of Oregon. Macpherson was a member of the Oregon State Senate from 1971 to 1974 and is best remembered as a primary author of the seminal 1973 Land Conservation and Development Act which established the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission and statewide land use planning regulation.

Hector Macpherson, Jr., known to family and personal friends from his earliest years by the nickname Huck, was born September 19, 1918 in Corvallis, Oregon. He was the third of three children of the Canadianborn Hector Macpherson, Sr., a professor of agricultural economics at Oregon Agricultural College and his Chicagoborn wife, the former Margaret Buchanan Dupee. His father, an academic expert on the cooperative movement, resigned his academic position in 1926 to dedicate his time to politics. His father was elected in 1926, 1928, and 1938 as a progressive Republican member the Oregon Legislative Assembly and was instrumental in a controversial highprofile initiative campaign for education reform in Oregon.

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