George LeBreton

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office = Recorder for the Provisional Government of Oregon
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term_end = 1844
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successor = Overton Johnson
constituency = Oregon Country
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birth_date = 1810
birth_place = Massachusetts
death_date = March 4 1844
death_place = Oregon
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George W. LeBreton (1810-1844) was a pioneer politician in the Oregon Country and served as the official recorder in the Provisional Government of Oregon.

LeBreton was born in 1810 in Massachusetts. [http://bluebook.state.or.us/notable/notsos.htm Oregon Blue Book: Oregon Secretaries of State Biographical Sketches, 1841-Present.] Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on March 10 2008.] He then moved to Oregon along with Captain John H. Couch, an early sea merchant in Portland, Oregon.cite book
last = Brown
first = J. Henry
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title = Brown’s Political History of Oregon: Provisional Government
publisher = Wiley B. Allen
date = 1892
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doi = ] He arrived in Oregon aboard Couch’s vessel "Maryland" in 1840.Flora, Stephenie. [http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1840.htm Emigrants to Oregon in 1840.] Oregon Pioneers. Retrieved on September 25 2007.] In Oregon on February 18 1841, he was elected as the recorder for the Champoeg Meetings and for the probate court that was created. Then in 1843 when the provisional government was formed he was again elected as the recorder, the forerunner to the office of Secretary of State. He was still the government recorder when he was killed by a Native American named Cockstock on March 4 1844.Horner, John B. (1921). "Oregon: Her History, Her Great Men, Her Literature". The J.K. Gill Co.: Portland.] Cockstock had stabbed and shot LeBreton along with another before being killed himself by Winslow Armstrong, but the incident lead the creation of the Oregon Rangers as a militia.

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