Theodore Thurston Geer (12 March 1851-21 February 1924) was the Republican Governor of Oregon from 9 January 1899 to 14 January 1903, succeeding William Paine Lord and preceding George Earle Chamberlain.
Biography[]
Theodore Thurston Geer was born in the Waldo Hills east of Salem, Oregon in 1851. He farmed in the Waldo Hills before serving as a state legislator and a Republican presidential elector in 1896, and he went on to serve as Governor of Oregon from 1899 to 1903. He created a state network of bicycle paths amid the "bicycle craze" of the 1890s, after which he served as editor of the Oregon Statesman from 1903 to 1905, owner of the Pendleton Tribune from 1905 to 1908, and publisher of Fifty Years in Oregon in 1911. He worked in real estate in Portland until his death in 1924.