EPISODE · Feb 9, 2026 · 10 MIN
Legislators shut down Salem with a raging party
from Offbeat Oregon History podcast · host Finn J.D. John
The six-week-long drunken party was thrown by the notoriously rascally Jonathan Bourne Jr. to keep the state Legislature from convening, so it couldn't elect John H. Mitchell to the U.S. Senate. It worked — well, sort of.(For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1201e-bourne-40-day-party-stopped-legislature.html)
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