This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GNE.2ACEB/47 Message Board Post: Oregon Republican League: Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 183. BLAKESLEY, C. M., of St. Helens, was born at Corvallis, Oregon December 9, 1864, and came to St. Helens twenty-two years ago. He is by occupation a fisherman. He was Deputy Sheriff three years under W. H. Meeker, and two years under C. F. Doan. He was the Republican nominee for Sheriff in 1892, and is again the nominee this year. He has been a delegate to conventions, and is an earnest worker in the party ranks. -Tony Larson