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... that Bert Haney (pictured) lost an election to the U.S. Senate, but was later confirmed by the Senate for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit?
... that eleven U.S. presidents stayed at the Portland Hotel, a Queen Anne-style, Châteauesque hotel which opened in Portland, Oregon in 1890?
... that the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon is home to a small population of wolverines, which are rare within the United States?
... that Hillsboro, Oregon, based Acumed, a medical device company, once built a motorcycle that included titanium body parts?

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