[2] West also served as the director of the Tillamook School District for a total of 13 years.

[1] At the state Republican Party convention in 1904, West was nominated as their candidate for the 14th District of the Oregon House of Representatives, which encompassed Tillamook and Yamhill counties.

a farmer by trade, was appointed to the Newberg Apple Growers Association in 1910.

[9] In 1915, he was appointed to the board of directors to the Newberg Co-operative Growers Association.

[14] It is unclear what West's exact date of death was, but estate proceedings on his property began in 1932.