# Jan Wyers

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{{Short description|American politician (born 1939)}}
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| name          = Jan Wyers
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| state_senate  = Oregon
| district      = 6th
| term_start    = January 10, 1977
| term_end      = January 9, 1989
| predecessor   = [Loyal Lang](/source/Loyal_Lang)
| successor     = [Dick Springer](/source/Dick_Springer)
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| party         = [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States))
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1939|1|2}}
| birth_place   = [Hood River, Oregon](/source/Hood_River%2C_Oregon)
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| profession    = attorney
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'''Jan Gerbrand Wyers''' (born January 2, 1939), is a retired American politician who was a member of the [Oregon State Senate](/source/Oregon_State_Senate).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://library.state.or.us/repository/2011/201101131436324/index.pdf|title=Alphabetical List of Oregon's representatives|website=state.or.us|access-date=11 March 2024|archive-date=July 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724115642/https://library.state.or.us/repository/2011/201101131436324/index.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=legislators1977>{{cite web|title=Oregon Legislators and Staff Guide, 1977 Regular Session (59th)|publisher=Oregon State Archives|url=http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/Recordpdf/6785340|access-date=June 19, 2016}}</ref> He also worked as an attorney.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v7eOAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Wyers,+Jan%22+AND+%221939%22|title=Oregon Blue Book|access-date=10 October 2014|year=1982}}</ref>  He later served as a [judge](/source/judge) in the [Multnomah County](/source/Multnomah_County%2C_Oregon) [Circuit Court](/source/Circuit_Court),<ref>{{cite news|last1=Valdez|first1=Angela|title=Running Free: Will fleeing from the cops become sound legal advice?|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-5189-running-free.html|access-date=2016-05-09|work=[Willamette Week](/source/Willamette_Week)|date=January 3, 2006}}</ref> until retiring in 2006.<ref name="mbabar2006dec">{{cite news|last1=Madkour |first1=Stephen |title=Judges Gernant and Wyers Retire from Bench |url=http://www.mbabar.org/assets/documents/multnomah%20lawyer/ml_dec2006.pdf |work=Multnomah Lawyer |publisher=Multnomah Bar Association |date=December 2006 |page=9 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906131634/http://www.mbabar.org/assets/documents/multnomah%20lawyer/ml_dec2006.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-06 }}</ref>

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Category:1939 births
Category:Living people
Category:Politicians from Hood River, Oregon
Category:Lawyers from Portland, Oregon
Category:Politicians from Portland, Oregon
Category:Circuit court judges in the United States
Category:Democratic Party Oregon state senators
Category:20th-century members of the Oregon Legislative Assembly

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