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  Online NewsHour | Vote 2004 | Key Races | Oklahoma Senate Race | Brad Carson
Carson is a sixth-generation Oklahoman, whose mother's Cherokee ancestors were forced west on the Trail of Tears in 1830, and settled in the county that came to bear their name - Adair.
Carson won by a 55 percent to 42 percent margin.
Carson was reelected to office in November 2002 with 74 percent of the vote, the second highest margin in the history of the 2nd District.
www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2004/key-races/ok_carson.html   (745 words)

  
 Dan Boren - Congresspedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Boren received a B.S. from Texas Christian University in 1997 and a MBA from the University of Oklahoma in 2000.
Boren served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004.
In the 2004 elections, Boren ran as the Democratic candidate for Oklahoma's second congressional district, succeeding Rep. Brad Carson, who was retiring for an unsuccessful bid for the United States Senate.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Dan_Boren   (647 words)

  
 Dan Boren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
David Daniel Boren (born August 2, 1973) is a Democratic U.S. politician from the state of Oklahoma, representing Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives (map).
Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Boren received a B.S. from Texas Christian University in 1997, and an MBA from the University of Oklahoma in 2000.
Boren is married to Andrea Heupel, the sister of OU football player Josh Heupel, and attends the Methodist Church.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Boren   (503 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay:Boren, Carson Dobbins (1824-1912)
Carson Boren was a member of the Denny party, which arrived in 1851.
Carson Boren was born on December 12, 1824, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Carson Boren and David Denny went aboard for her continuing journey southward to retrieve stock they had left in the Willamette Valley.
www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=1936   (1372 words)

  
 Sequoyahcountytimes.com
County voters showed their support for U.S. Rep. Brad Carson (D-Claremore) who was running for the U.S. Senate seat, but the support he received in the 2nd Congressional District wasn't strong enough to overcome former U.S. Rep. Tom Coburn, Republican from Muskogee.
Boren was up against Wayland Smalley, Republican, of Chelsea, for the seat being vacated by Congressman Brad Carson.
Boren received 65.04 percent of the county vote, while Smalley received 34.96 percent.
www.sequoyahcountytimes.com /articles/2004/12/29/news/2topstories.txt   (2766 words)

  
 Oklahoma State University - Okmulgee : Home
Boren was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives at age 29 after defeating an eight-year incumbent.
Boren's service on this committee led to legislation that enhanced the efforts of law enforcement in their battle against methamphetamines.
Boren and his sister, Carrie, were born to former Governor and Senator David L. Boren and the late Janna L. Robbins of Madill.
www.osu-okmulgee.edu /news_and_events/view_news.php?news_id=135   (792 words)

  
 Indianz.Com > News > Senate race pits tribal member against conservative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Carson's victory on primary night sets him up for a November battle against a Republican Tom Coburn, a former Congressman whose entry in the race roiled state GOPs who were supporting former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys.
Kalyn Free, a member of the Choctaw Nation, was vying for Carson's seat but on Tuesday, she lost the Democratic nomination to Dan Boren, a state representative and the son of a former U.S. Senator.
Boren has been criticized for his ties to one of the founders of One Nation, an anti-Indian group fighting tribal sovereignty in Oklahoma.
www.indianz.com /News/2004/003571.asp   (658 words)

  
 Sabato's Crystal Ball - Oklahoma Senate 2004
The Sooner State has not had a Democratic senator since David Boren retired his seat in 1994 and it is a solid state for George W. Bush.
Carson has managed to paint Coburn as too conservative with the Republican's own words, such as Coburn's statement that the election is a choice between good (Coburn) and evil (Carson) and that he would support the death penalty for "abortionists" if Roe v.
Oklahoma's demographic tendencies may eventually be overcome as Carson continues to press on smartly against the bumbling Coburn.
www.centerforpolitics.org /crystalball/article.php?id=SOK2004102201   (414 words)

  
 MyDD :: Free vs Boren,OK Dem 2nd
Boren's grandfather, the late Lyle Boren, was a House member from 1937 to 1947.
Boren's campaign has tried to reverse the spin on the Dean endorsement, suggesting that Free appears to think she is running for Congress in liberal Vermont rather than conservative Oklahoma.
Apparently, the feeling in Seminole county is one of betrayal by Boren who is a State Rep. However he hasn't been seen in the county since the campaign started.
www.mydd.com /story/2004/7/23/10457/4640   (623 words)

  
 The Economic History of Seattle
Denny and the two men of his group, his brother-in-law/step-brother Carson Boren and a man recruited by Denny, William N. Bell, each staked out 320 acre parcels along the coast of the Bay.
The north parcel was Bell's, the south parcel was Boren's and the middle parcel went to Denny.
Maynard was given land at the expense of Carson Boren.
www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/seattle.htm   (8706 words)

  
 The Boren identity: young Dan Boren makes his way in Washington Weekly Standard, The - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Boren was grateful that his opponent was so endorsed.
Boren points out that much of his constituency is made up of blue-collar workers, retirees, and young people--all traditional Democratic voters.
Boren says he appealed to Bush's values voters and Republicans generally by emphasizing his commitment to traditional values and by reassuring the business community of his anti-tax positions.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RMQ/is_21_10/ai_n11836394   (888 words)

  
 Boren for Congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dan Boren considers the loss of quality jobs in Eastern Oklahoma the number one challenge facing the district, and it will be his top priority as your next U.S. Congressman.
He’ll fight for incentives for employers looking to relocate in the 2nd District, and he’s promised to go the extra mile to bring good jobs back home so our kids can stay home and raise their own children around the values we grew up with.
Boren believes that both sides must give in order to arrive at meaningful and workable international treaties.
www.borenforcongress.com /qualityjobs.htm   (500 words)

  
 Carson or Coburn? In a close call, we recommend ... (Oklahoman Endorsement -- GREAT NEWS)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For his part, Carson has pledged to vote in similar fashion to David Boren when Boren was in the Senate for 16 years -- and he'd have to, if he had any hope of surviving more than a single term in conservative Oklahoma.
Carson that most of the people that attend NASCAR races or maybe just a fan are in the 50,000.00 plus a year category.
Carson is a REAL hard-core conservative, not a moderate who CLAIMS to be "conservative" even though he votes for "hate crimes" legislation, CFR, and Dasshole for "Majority" Leader.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1255351/posts   (2696 words)

  
 Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia, Publication 10 - 1976
Bazel Boren, probably the eldest son of Charles and Mary Boren, was born between 1745 and 1750 and resided during his early years in Orange County, North Carolina.
Bazel Boren's grave has never been located, and while his widow was residing in Union County, Illinois in 1818, she was absent from the 1820 census.
Francis Boren, brother of Bazel Boren, was the grandfather of Carson Dobbins Boren, founder of Seattle, Washington.
www.newrivernotes.com /swva/hssv-10.htm   (16179 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay: Seattle and King County's First White Settlers
Carson Boren left the Alki settlement on March 23, 1852, to get livestock and probably started building his family's cabin when he returned in late April.
On April 27, 1852, Carson Boren purchased six pounds of nails and a wood stove from Charles Terry, which he undoubtedly used for his cabin.
On papers Carson Boren filed for his Donation Land Claim, he stated his claim was settled on May 13, 1852.
www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=1660   (3588 words)

  
 OurCongress.org :: Oklahoma
Boren is heavily favored to defeat GOP nominee Wayland Smalley for the right to replace Brad Carson (D) in the House.
The 16 percentage point loss is a blow to national progressive power brokers who invested heavily in her candidacy against the moderate Boren.
Boren held a slight advantage in the money race, though both candidates received substantial PAC contributions.
www.ourcongress.org /race/Oklahoma   (213 words)

  
 Louisa Boren Park information information - Search.com
Louisa Boren Park is a 7.2 acre park in Seattle, Washington.
A heavily wooded hillside and lookout with views to the northeast of the city, Lake Washington, and the Eastside, it is located at the north end of Capitol Hill just south of Interlaken Park, out of which it was created in 1913.
It was named after Louisa Boren Denny, wife and sister of Seattle pioneers David Denny and Carson Boren, respectively.
search.com.com /reference/Louisa_Boren_Park   (121 words)

  
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Arthur A. Denny, his wife Mary Ann (Boren) Denny (1822-1912), their children Louisa C. Denny (b.1844), Lenora Denny (1847-1915), and Rolland H. Denny (b.
Carson D. Boren (1824-1912), his wife Mary Boren (1831-1906), their daughter Gertrude Boren (1850-1912), and Carson's younger sister Louisa Boren (1827-1918);
Early in 1852, Arthur Denny, Carson Boren, and William Bell explored Elliott Bay and decided that its eastern shore offered a better harbor than Alki Beach.
www.infinitesouls.com /page8.html   (1088 words)

  
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Carson Boren arrived in Seattle in 1851 as part of the founding Denny party.
He built a cabin at what is now the corner of Second and Cherry in downtown Seattle.
Scanned from original print as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
content.lib.washington.edu /cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/imlsmohai&CISOPTR=2719&CISORESTMP=&CISOVIEWTMP=   (154 words)

  
 Belltown Messenger
Relatively little is known about the pioneer Bell, according to the librarian in the Seattle Room, on the tenth-floor of the new library and Roger Sale, author of Seattle: Past and Present.
Sale said, comparatively "he remains faceless" like his compatriot Carson Boren who became a recluse in 1856, Bell disappeared from the scene in 1856 when he left for California.
In January, 1852, Bell, Boren and the Dennys headed back out on the waters of Elliot Bay to scout their claims.
www.belltownmessenger.com /082005/082005-megan.html   (940 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Seattle, Washington
The more northerly plats of Arthur A. Denny and Carson D. Boren, however, which encompassed Pioneer Square and the western slope of First Hill, had street grids that more or less followed the shoreline.
Henry Yesler established a sawmill on the waterfront where Maynard and Boren's plats met.
The road leading down the hill to that mill, for a while Mill Street and now known as Yesler Way, was originally known as the Skid Road (the route for skidding logs down to the mill), hence the term "Skid Row" for a seamy red light district.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Seattle   (3139 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay: Yesler, Henry L. (1810-1892) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
After talking to Maynard and Boren, and realizing that their cleared waterfront land was not available, he started back to Alki.
According to Speidel, Maynard and Boren were prepared in advance of Yesler's arrival to donate portions of their claims to accommodate his mill (Speidel, p.
Maynard and Boren's donation to Yesler included a narrow strip of land between the waterfront and upland forests.
www.historylink.org.cob-web.org:8888 /_output.CFM?file_ID=286   (1643 words)

  
 Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish, Statue--Seattle, Washington: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
Through Maynard, Sealth met the three men now considered Seattle's original settlers, Carson Boren, William Bell and Arthur Denny.
In 1855, Sealth led the American Indian council that ceded all of what is now Seattle to the United States.
In spite of several years of friction between American Indians and incoming settlers, Sealth, still the leader of the Puget Sound tribes, managed to maintain friendly relationships with Maynard, Boren, Bell and Denny.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/seattle/s9.htm   (333 words)

  
 Pioneer Square Hotel History
Most of the families lived in long cabins erected the year before on the land where Arthur Denny a surveyor by trade, had planned a town that later he named Seattle.
On hearing that Yesler had a sawmill on route, they welcomed him warmly and, to ensure that he situated the mill in their settlement, Dr. David Maynard and Carson Boren separated their land claims by a couple of hundred yards to allow Yesler access to his forested claim on the hill above his mill sitel.
Today the strip of access Maynard and Boren provided Yesler is known as Yesler Way.
www.trainweb.com /cities/sea/pioneersquarehotel.html   (2305 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine
Its first historical exhibit was an array of costumes draped on the women attending.
Surviving pioneer Carson Boren stands before the pylon dedicated on "Founders Day" Nov. 13, 1905, near the Alki Beach site where the Denny Party landed in the fall of 1851.
On that day, Carson Boren, Arthur Denny and William Bell explored the protected eastern shore of Elliott Bay, and to the forested hill behind it they soon moved.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /pacificnw/2001/1111/nowthen.html   (841 words)

  
 HistoryLink- Pioneer Square Cybertour
Yesler Way also divided the pioneer claims of Arthur Denny and Carson Boren on the north and David "Doc" Maynard on the south.
When Denny and Maynard sat down to draw up the first plats for Seattle in May 1853, they could not agree on the orientation of the street grid.
Denny later grumbled that Maynard, "stimulated with liquor," had decided he was "not only monarch of all he surveyed, but of what Boren and I surveyed, too." Their spat survives in the tangled intersections along Yesler Way.
www.cityofseattle.net /tour/HistoricDistricts/pioneer/pioneer-02.htm   (210 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Today the strip of access Maynard and Boren provided Yesler is known as
Land claims were not yet registered at the land office in distant Oregon City, so Dr. David Maynard and
Boren separated their properties by 450 feet to give Yesler a strip of land running from the shoreline to his timbered claim of 320 acres atop the hill.
www.pioneersquarehotel.com /profile.html   (2735 words)

  
 Battlegrounders on National Review Online
This morning's weekly Daily Oklahoman poll has Tom Coburn at 42.2% and Brad Carson at 39%, which is the first decent, though still narrow, lead for Coburn in some weeks.
In the five congressional races, the four GOP incumbents are shoo-ins with minimal opposition, and State Rep. Dan Boren (son of former U. Senator David Boren) is sure to capture Carson's former congressional seat in NE Oklahoma.
And at the local battleground level, legislative term limits will assure turnover in at least 51 of 148 state House and Senate seats.
www.nationalreview.com /battleground/2004/battleground200410191604.asp   (279 words)

  
 HistoryLink- Pioneer Square Cybertour
Maynard returned the favor by convincing Seattle's settlers to rename the village, first called "Duwamps," in the Chief's honor.
Arthur Denny, Carson Boren, and William Bell staked claims on the ridges to the north and east, but later disagreed with their neighbor over the new town's street grid.
Seattle's early success was guaranteed when Henry Yesler chose the village as the site of Puget Sound's first steam-powered lumber mill (in exchange for generous chunks of the settler's claims).
www.seattle.gov /tour/HistoricDistricts/pioneer/index.htm   (608 words)

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