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Senate Years of Service: 1905-1907 Party: Democrat
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Library of Congress
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GEARIN, John McDermeid, a Senator from Oregon; born near Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oreg., August 15,
1851; attended the country schools, St. Marys College, San Francisco, and graduated from Notre
Dame University, Indiana, in 1871; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice
in Portland, Oreg.; member, State house of representatives 1874; city attorney of Portland in 1875;
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; district attorney
for Multnomah County 1884-1886; appointed by President Grover Cleveland in 1893 as special
prosecutor for the government concerning cases of opium fraud; appointed as a Democrat to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John H. Mitchell and served from
December 13, 1905, until January 23, 1907, when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for
election in 1907 to fill the vacancy; resumed the practice of law in Portland, Oreg., until his death there
November 12, 1930; interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
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