William Edwin Markham (October 9, 1922 – April 5, 2021) was an American politician who was a member of the

Oregon House of Representatives The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, the upper house being the Oregon State Senate. There are 60 members of the House, representing 60 districts across the state, each with a population of ...

. He served from 1969 to 1999 as a Republican. Markham was a small business owner in the construction,

timber Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, window frames). ...

and

logging Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidder, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or trunk (botany), logs onto logging truck, trucksUniversity of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

. He died at the age of 98 in 2021.World War II veteran and popular legislator Bill Markham has died at 98
/ref>

References

1922 births 2021 deaths Republican Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives People from Chehalis, Washington Politicians from Roseburg, Oregon University of Washington Foster School of Business alumni Businesspeople from Oregon 20th-century members of the Oregon Legislative Assembly {{Oregon-politician-stub