Asa Lawrence Lovejoy (March 14, 1808 – September 10, 1882) was an American pioneer and politician in the region that would become the U.S. state of Oregon...

Groening has indicated that Lovejoy is named after Lovejoy Street (which in turn is named for Portland co-founder Asa Lovejoy) in Portland, Oregon, the...

author Asa Lovejoy (1808–1882), American businessman and politician Asa Mader (born 1975), American film director, screenwriter and visual artist Asa C. Matthews...

Portland, Oregon, began in 1843 when business partners William Overton and Asa Lovejoy filed to claim land on the west bank of the Willamette River in Oregon...

and intellectual historian Asa Lovejoy (1808–1882), American pioneer and politician, founder of Portland, Oregon Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), American ice...

electronically by the scoring apparatus.[citation needed] In the United States Asa Lovejoy and Francis W. Pettygrove, who each owned the claim to the land that...

Portland's two founders, Francis Pettygrove from Portland, Maine and Asa Lovejoy from Boston, Massachusetts, both wanted to name the fledgling site—then...

North America. In the mid-1840s he purchased the land claim, along with Asa Lovejoy, for the site which would become Portland, Oregon. Overton sold his share...

land claim on which he and Asa Lovejoy laid out a town named Portland after the port city in Pettygrove's home state. Lovejoy preferred Boston, but Pettygrove...

Asa Lovejoy of Boston. In 1844, Overton sold his remaining half of the claim to Francis W. Pettygrove of Portland, Maine. Both Pettygrove and Lovejoy...