US Congressman, Lawyer. He was a United States Representative from the State of Oregon. He was born one of ten children as John Rogers McBride in St. Louis, Missouri, to James McBride (1802-1875), and his wife Mahala Miller McBride (1811-1876), on August 22, 1832. He was educated locally and then moved with his family to Lafayette, Oregon, where he became the superintendent of schools at the age of twenty-two. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855, and commenced his practice of law in Lafayette, Oregon, shortly thereafter. He then entered politics and served as a Delegate to the Oregon State Constitutional Convention from Yamhill County, Oregon, in 1857. He also served as a Member of the Oregon State Senate from 1860 to 1862. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative George Knox Shiel (1825-1893), on March 4, 1863. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served Oregon as an At-Large Delegate (Thirty-Eighth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1863, to March 3, 1865. In total, he was elected in 1862. He was an unsuccessful Candidate for renomination for a second term in 1864. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative James Henry Dickey Henderson (1810-1885), on March 4, 1865. After leaving the United States Congress, he served a term as the Chief Justice of the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court after being personally appointed to that post by then-President of the United States Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), in 1864. He served in the position of the Chief Justice of the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court from 1865 to 1869. He was also personally appointed by the then-President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), as the Superintendent of the United States Assay Office in Boise, Idaho. He also served as a Member of the Republican National Committee from the Idaho Territory in 1872 and as a Member of the Republican National Committee from Washington from 1880 to 1892. He retired from politics shortly thereafter to pursue other endeavors. He then practiced law in Boise, Idaho, and in Salt Lake City, Utah, for a time before moving to Spokane, Washington, where he continued with his practice of law until his death on July 20, 1904, at the age of 71. He passed away suddenly from a brain hemorrhage in Spokane, Washington, on July 20, 1904, at the age of 71. Following his death, his funeral services were held at the undertaking rooms of Smith & Company in Spokane, Washington, and the funeral sermon was said by Dr. G. William Giboney, and the remains were then sent by train to Portland, Oregon, where his body was cremated, and then his ashes were buried in the Family Plot in the Masonic Cemetery in Saint Helens, Oregon. Upon his passing, he was remembered as, "Of this noble man it may be said without exaggeration that he was a statesman, a scholar and a gentleman. A brave, kindly, talented man has gone to his reward." He was married three times, first to Eunice Marie Adams McBride (1834-1904), in Yamhill County, Oregon Territory, on December 4, 1852, and secondly to Helen Eileen Amanda Lee McBride (1846-1893), on August 10, 1871, and thirdly to Mary Wheatley Bishop McBride in Spokane, Washington, on April 22, 1903. He had nine children, Isabel McBride who was born in 1854, Willis Prentice McBride who was born in 1856, Frank McBride who was born in 1863, Mary Lee McBride who was born in 1872, Howard Robertson McBride who was born in 1874, Annie L. McBride who was born in 1876, Walter Scott McBride who was born in 1878, and Henry C. McBride who was born in 1879. His youngest brother, George Wycliffe McBride (1854-1911), served as a United States Senator from the State of Oregon. His other younger brother, Thomas Allan McBride (1847-1930), was the Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court three times from 1913 to 1915, 1917 to 1921, and again from 1923 to 1927.