Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Aaron Elling, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Andrew Dufur, Augustus C. Kinney, Calvin Leroy Van Pelt, Crystal Aikin, Daniel Gault, Edward B. Watson, Frank L. Roberts, George Wallace (poet), Gordon Haller, Harvey W. Scott, Jason Boe, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jim Brazeau, Joseph C. Hare, Kerry Cohen, Leslie What, Les AuCoin, Liz Heaston, Loren Cordain, Marianne Monson, Michelle Bitting, Nancy Wilson (rock musician), Newton K. Wesley, Olaus Murie, Paul Barnard (politician), Rick Dancer, Steven Beckingham, Thomas H. Tongue, Tommy Walter, William A. Barton, William A. Hilliard, William G. Hare, William N. Barrett. Excerpt: Walter Leslie "Les" AuCoin (; born October 21, 1942), is an American politician and the first Democrat elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st congressional district since it was formed in 1882. The seat has been held by a Democrat ever since. AuCoin's 18-year tenure-from the 94th United States Congress through the 102nd-is the sixth-longest in Oregon history. In his career, AuCoin took a prominent role in abortion rights, local and national environmental issues, multiple use management of federal forests, and national security. During the presidency of Ronald Reagan, he wrote the ban to stop Interior Secretary James Watt's plan to open the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf to oil exploration. AuCoin was an early advocate of diplomatic relations with The People's Republic of China and arms control with the Soviet Union, and a critic of U.S. support for the Nicaraguan Contras and the rightist government of El Salvador in the 1980s. At the time of his retirement in 1993, he was 84th in overall House seniority, dean of the Oregon House delegation, a majority whip-at-large, and a veteran member of the House Appropriations Committee. AuCoin previously was a two-term member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1974). In his second term, he was House Majority Leader, at the age of 31. He is a full-time author, writer, lecturer and occasional blogger. He and his wife, Susan live in Bozeman, Montana. AuCoin was born in Portland, Oregon on October 21, 1942 to Francis Edgar AuCoin, a short order cook from Portland, Maine, and Alice Audrey Darrar, a waitress from Madras, Oregon. When he was four, his father abandoned the family. Les and his brother Leland moved with their mother to Redmond, Oregon, then a small Central Oregon sawmill and farming town, living on her restaurant wages and tips. AuCoin attended Redmond High School, where he was elected most valuable player on the school's basketball team. He also joined the staff of the school newspape