George Abernethy was an American politician, pioneer, entrepreneur, and first governor of Oregon under the provisional government based in the Willamette Valley, an area later a part of the American state of Oregon. He traveled to Oregon Country as a secular member of the Methodist mission, where he became involved in politics and helped found the first American newspaper west of the Rocky Mountains.
- Occupation
- entrepreneur, politician
- Position held
- Governor of Oregon
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 7, 1807
- Died
