Charles Linza McNary LAST NAME: McNary FIRST NAME: Charles MIDDLE NAME: Linza NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Honorable GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN: 12 June 1874 DIED: 25 Feb 1944 BURIED: aft 25 Feb 1944 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Attorney; U. S. Senator BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co., Oregon DEATH PLACE: Fort Lauderdale, Broward Co., Florida NOTES:  Charles McNary is not buried here, contrary to published records, he is buried in Belcrest Memorial Cemetery.. We added his biography to point researchers to the correct burial site in Belcrest, where his wife Jessie Breyman McNary was buried in 1918. NOTE - He is listed in the J. Plant Register as a burial here - but either he was briefly interred here and then moved, or he was entered in the register in anticipation of a burial which did not take place. Short bio and photo are on p. 180 of HISTORY of the BENCH and BAR in OREGON. See also: CAPITOL'S WHO'S WHO FOR OREGON, 1942 - 1944, pg 290-91.  See also: LOOKING BACK: People and Places in Early Keizer Area by Ann Lossner, May 1990. OBITUARY:  McNary, Charles Linza, a Senator from Oregon; born on a farm near Salem, Marion County, Oregon, June 12, 1874; attended the public schools and Leland Stanford Junior University, California; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice in Salem, Oregon; deputy district attorney of the third judicial district 1904 - 1911; dean of the law department of Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 1908 - 1913; associate justice of the State supreme court 1913 - 1915; appointed as Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1919, caused by the death of Harry Lane and served from May 29, 1917, until November 5, 1918, when Frederick W. Mulkey was elected to fill this vacancy; again appointed to the United States Senate, on December 12, 1918, to become effective December 18, 1918, to fill the vacancy in the same term caused by the resignation of Frederick W. Mulkey, having been previously elected for the term beginning March 4 1919; reelected in 1924, 1930, 1936, and again in 1942, and served from December 18, 1918 until his death in 1944; chairman of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-second Congresses), Republican Conference (Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket in 1940; died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 25, 1944; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Salem, Oregon. Bibliography: DAB; Johnson, Roger T. "Charles L. McNary and the Republican Party During Prosperity and Depression." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1967; Neal, Steve. McNary of Oregon: A Political Biography. Portland: Western Imprints, 1983.  BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS 1774 - 1989, pg. 1482. INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS 1774 - 1989, pg 1482. CONTACTS:  LOT: Not SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: