- Ben Cannon
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name = Rep. Ben Cannon
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state = Oregon
state_house = Oregon
district = 46th
term_start = 2007
term_end = present
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successor = Incumbent
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party = Democratic
birth_date = 1976
birth_place =Springfield, Illinois
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alma_mater =Oxford University ,Washington University
profession =educator
spouse = Liz Cannon
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residence =Portland, Oregon
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website = [http://www.votebencannon.com/ votebencannon.com]Ben Cannon is an American teacher and politician from
Oregon . He was elected in 2006 to theOregon House of Representatives , representing the state's 46th District, which covers portions of southeast and northeast Portland. He is unopposed for re-election in 2008.Cannon was educated at Washington University in
St. Louis, Missouri , where he edited the campus newspaper and co-authored "Walking Historic Downtown St. Louis" (2000). He won aRhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in 1999, and went toCorpus Christi College, Oxford . There he served in the position of Bar Steward, and studiedPhilosophy, Politics, and Economics before taking a graduate degree in Comparative and International Education.Cannon returned to Oregon to become a middle school teacher at the Arbor School of Arts and Sciences in Tualatin, where he still teaches.
External links
* [http://www.leg.state.or.us/cannon/ Oregon State House - Ben Cannon] official government website
* [http://www.repbencannon.com/ Legislative website]
* [http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=59653 Project Vote Smart - Representative Ben Cannon (OR)] profile
*"Follow the Money" - Ben Cannon
** [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=80609 2006] campaign contributions
* [http://www.votebencannon.com/ Campaign website]
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