Robert Y. Thornton

Robert Y. Thornton (January 28, 1910 – November 29, 2003) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist in the

His ultimate defeat by Republican Lee Johnson, who garnered some 80,000 more votes than Thornton in the 1968 general election, became a matter for the courts. Thornton challenged the outcome by bringing a suit charging that Johnson had violated campaign spending limits and falsified a report by signing the blank form. Johnson admitted he had done so in anticipation of being out of the country when the report was to be filed. A three-judge panel in Marion County ruled in favor of Thornton, invalidating the election results and awarding Thornton an additional term. The Oregon Supreme Court overturned that decision and awarded the office to Johnson, on the grounds that neither violation was deliberate and that both had occurred after the election.^[3]

Education

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• AB, Stanford University, 1932
• Postgraduate study, University of Oregon, 1933–35
• JD, George Washington University, 1937^[2]

Career

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• 1971-1983 - Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals
• 1953-1969 - Oregon Attorney General
• 1951-1953 - Oregon State Representative^[5]
• 1946-1953 - Private practice of law (Tillamook, Oregon)
• 1941-1946 - U.S. Army, World War II, Japan, attaining rank of Lieutenant Colonel
• 1939-1941 - Private practice of law (Tillamook)
• 1938-1939 - Assistant Solicitor,
  U.S. Department of the Interior
• 1937-1938 - Law Clerk, District of Columbia Court of Appeals^[2]

Publications

• Thornton, Robert Y. (March–April 1956). "Organized Crime in the Field of Prostitution". Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science. 46 (6): 775–779.
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