Les AuCoin Collection

Oregon trade delegation to China group portrait

Group portrait of Les AuCoin's 1979 Oregon trade delegation to the People's Republic of China. The photograph is signed at the bottom by members of the delegation. In typed notes about the image, AuCoin writes: "One month after the U.S. and P.R.C. established diplomatic relations, I was the first congressman to lead a trade delegation to China. Four Oregon businessmen, their spouses, and Sue and I arrived in February 1979.... In 1978, I had brought to the floor of the U.S. House the first bill to propose normal relations between the two countries." In the photo, the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress stands in the middle, flanked by Representative AuCoin on the left and his wife Sue AuCoin on the right. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. The original photo remains with the AuCoin family.

1979

Legislators--United States

International economic relations

Foreign trade regulation--China

Beijing, China

PUA_MS147_140

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