The Oregon Treaty ended the sharing and formally established the borders on June 15, 1846.
While early attempts at establishing a government had been unsuccessful because of discontent between English American and French Canadian settlers over the question of whom they should choose as governor, several other officers were elected at these meetings, including Ira Babcock as Supreme Judge.
For lack of a government, the Supreme Judge also received executive and legislative duties.
[3][4] The meetings at Champoeg led up to the first constitution of the Oregon Country and several petitions for U.S. territorial status.
The office would devolve upon the secretary of state upon vacancy[28] until a 1920 amendment put the president of the Senate first in the line of succession,[29] and a 1972 amendment returned the secretary of state to the front.