Politics
In Corvallis he was clerk of the district court of the Territory of Oregon for Benton County from 1853 to 1856. He was a member of the Territorial assembly in 1857-1858 and was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives in from 1859-1860. From 1858 to 1861 Slater published the Corvallis Union as both owner and editor. He also served as postmaster for Corvallis from 1859 to 1860 followed by law practice there until 1863 when he moved to Walla Walla, Washington. Slater then moved to Auburn, Oregon, before settling in the Eastern Oregon town of La Grande in 1866.
In La Grande he was district attorney for the fifth judicial district of Oregon in 1868, as well as a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 4, 1873). Slater then returned to law practice in La Grande. He returned to politics in 1878 and was elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1879, to March 4, 1885.
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