Hardy Myers
| Hardy Myers | |
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Myers in 1998
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| 15th Attorney General of Oregon | |
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In office January 24, 1997 – January 4, 2009 |
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| Governor |
John Kitzhaber Ted Kulongoski |
| Preceded by | Ted Kulongoski |
| Succeeded by | John Kroger |
| 55th Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives | |
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In office 1979–1983 |
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| Preceded by | Philip D. Lang |
| Succeeded by | Grattan Kerans |
| Constituency | Multnomah County |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 25, 1939 Electric Mills, Mississippi |
| Died | November 29, 2016 (aged 77) Portland, Oregon |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Ann |
| Profession | attorney |
Hardy Myers (October 25, 1939 – November 29, 2016) was a lawyer and Democratic politician who served three terms as attorney general of the state of Oregon, United States. Prior to taking office in 1997, he served from 1975 to 1985 in the Oregon House of Representatives, the last four of those years as its speaker, and was also a Metro councilor and chaired the Oregon Criminal Justice Council.
Myers was born October 25, 1939, in Electric Mills, Mississippi. He moved with his family to Bend in central Oregon in 1943 where his father, a lumberman, became manager of the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company, one of the two large mills that used to operate on the Deschutes River. His family then moved to Prineville in 1951. He attended public schools until graduation from high school.
After high school he went back east, attending the University of Mississippi, where he received his undergraduate degree with distinction in 1961.
Myers returned to Oregon to continue on to law school at the University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, earning a LL.B. in 1964. While at the University of Oregon he became Phi Eta Sigma (freshman scholastic honorary), Phi Kappi Phi (undergraduate scholastic honorary), Omicron Delta Kappa (undergraduate leadership honorary). He was also on the Board of Editors of the Oregon Law Review.
Myers clerked for a year to United States District Judge William G. East in 1964–65. During that time, East made national headlines for ordering U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to show why an Oregon lawyer should not be paid for defending a criminal defendant he had been ordered to defend by the federal court. In what Time magazine said was "may be the neatest constitutional argument of the year", East justified the expenditure under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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