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Senate Years of Service: 1960-1967 Party: Democrat
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NEUBERGER, Maurine Brown, (wife of Richard L. Neuberger),
a Senator from Oregon; born Maurine Brown, January 9, 1907, in
Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Oreg.; attended the public schools, Oregon
College of Education at Monmouth 1922-1924, the University of Oregon 1928-1929,
and the University of California at Los Angeles 1936-1937; teacher in Oregon
public schools 1932-1944; member, State house of representatives 1951-1955;
writer and photographer; member, board of directors, American Association for
the United Nations; elected in a special election on November 8, 1960, as a
Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
her husband, Richard L. Neuberger, and served from November 9, 1960, to January
3, 1961; also elected in 1960 for the term commencing January 3, 1961, and
ending January 3, 1967; was not a candidate for reelection in 1966; lecturer on
consumer affairs and the status of women; teacher of American government at
Boston University, Radcliffe Institute, and Reed College; was a resident of
Portland, Oreg., until her death on February 22, 2000; interment in Beth Israel
Cemetery, Portland, Oreg.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives;
Neuberger, Maurine B.
Smoke Screen: Tobacco and the Public Welfare. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963; Neuberger, Richard L.
Adventures in Politics: We Go to the Legislature. New York:
Oxford Press, 1954.
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