Maurine Brown Neuberger

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Maurine Brown Neuberger (1962)

Maurine Brown Neuberger (born January 9, 1907 in Cloverdale , Tillamook County , Oregon , †  February 22, 2000 in Portland , Oregon) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Oregon in the US Senate .

Maurine Brown first attended public schools and from 1922 to 1924 the Oregon College of Education in Monmouth before she graduated from the University of Oregon in 1929 with her bachelor's degree . From 1936 to 1937 she graduated from UCLA in Los Angeles . From 1932 to 1944 she then worked as a teacher in public schools in Oregon; she met her future husband Richard L. Neuberger in 1937 while she was working at a high school in Portland . After this had served in World War II , they married in 1945. Richard Neuberger had already been politically active as a member of the House of Representatives from Oregon at that time ; In 1948 he moved to the State Senate .

His wife also embarked on a political career and, for her part, sat in the state's House of Representatives from 1950 to 1955. During this time she was also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the United Nations , a non-profit organization largely supported by Eleanor Roosevelt , which was supposed to bring the importance and ideals of the UN closer to the American people .

In 1954 Richard Neuberger was elected to the US Senate; he died of a cerebral haemorrhage on March 9, 1960, before the end of his term of office. Hall S. Lusk was named his immediate successor ; Maurine Neuberger stood in the official by-election and prevailed with 55 percent of the vote against former Governor Elmo Smith , whereupon she was able to take her husband's previous seat in Congress from November 9, 1960. Since the election for the following term of office was carried out at the same time and resulted in a practically identical result, Neuberger could remain in the Senate for a full term of office until January 3, 1967. There she specialized in consumer, environmental and health issues. Among other things, she was involved in one of the first draft laws on health warnings on cigarette packs.

In 1961, she was appointed by US President John F. Kennedy to a Presidential Commission on the Status of Women , chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt . A few years later the National Organization for Women emerged from this commission .

Maurine Neuberger, who did not run for a further term in 1966, was married to Philip Solomon, a well-known psychiatrist and medical researcher, in 1964; the marriage was divorced again in 1967. After her time in the Senate, she was a lecturer in consumer affairs and American political science at the Boston University , the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies of Harvard University and the Reed College operates. Neuberger died in Portland in 2000; to this day she is the only woman who has represented her state in the US Senate.

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SURNAME Neuberger, Maurine Brown
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Cloverdale , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2000
Place of death Portland , Oregon