Elizabeth Furse

Elizabeth Furse ( born October 13, 1936 in Nairobi, Kenya) is an American politician. Between 1993 and 1999, she represented the first electoral district of the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Elizabeth Furse, daughter of British parents, was born in Kenya and grew up in South Africa. There, she joined in 1951 the movement against apartheid in. In 1956 she moved to England and then to the United States where they settled in Los Angeles. There, she supported a women's self- help group and a labor movement that fought for the right to be allowed to join a union.

In 1968, Furse moved to Seattle. In 1974 she attended the Evergreen State College; In 1978 she moved to Portland in Oregon, where she began studying law. In their new home they stood up for the rights of the Indians and called for the official recognition of the Company's Oregon Indian tribes. In 1986, she co-founded the based in Portland Oregon Peace Institute. Furse is also co-owner of a vineyard.

Politically Elizabeth Furse became a member of the Democratic Party. In 1992 she was chosen as their candidate in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she replaced Les Aucoin on January 3, 1993. After several re- elections could pass in Congress until January 3, 1999, a total of three legislative periods. There she worked on improving diabetes care and treatment under the public health program, Medicare. In 1998, Furse opted not to run again.

After the end of their time in Congress be Furse dedicated to her vineyard. But it is still politically active and support the interests of the American Indians. In the Senate elections of 2002 and 2008, they supported the Republican Gordon H. Smith, with whom she is in the Indian question is agreed and was one of the first within the Republican Party, who advocated an end to the Iraq war. Elizabeth Furse is married to John C. Platt, who is her in the management of the vineyard to the side.