Douglas McKay Republican Douglas McKay Republican The 1950 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1950 to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Oregon.

Incumbent Republican governor Douglas McKay defeated Democratic nominee Austin F. Flegel.

Hall, as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, had succeeded to the governorship following the death of governor Earl Snell, Oregon Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., and State Senate President Marshall E. Cornett in a plane crash on October 30, 1947.

[1][2] In the general election, McKay defeated Flegel by a nearly 2–1 margin.

McKay would step down less than two years into his term to become United States Secretary of the Interior under President Dwight Eisenhower.