Robert "Doc" Newell was an American politician and fur trapper in the Oregon Country. He was a frontier doctor in what would become the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Ohio, he served in the Provisional Government of Oregon and later was a member of the Oregon State Legislature. The Newell House Museum, his reconstructed former home on the French Prairie in Champoeg, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Occupation
- explorer, politician
- Position held
- member of the Oregon House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 30, 1807
- Died
