Maurine Neuberger
Maurine Brown Neuberger ( born January 9, 1907 in Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Oregon, † February 22, 2000 in Portland, Oregon) was an American politician (Democratic Party), which represented the state of Oregon in the U.S. Senate.
Maurine Brown first attended the public schools, and from 1922 to 1924, the Oregon College of Education in Monmouth, before she made her 1929 bachelor's degree at the University of Oregon. From 1936 to 1937 she studied at UCLA in Los Angeles. From 1932 to 1944 she worked as a teacher in public schools in Oregon; there she met in 1937 when she worked at a high school in Portland, know her future husband Richard L. Neuberger. After he had served in World War II, they married in 1945 Richard Neuberger had already been politically active as a deputy in the House of Representatives from Oregon at this time. ; In 1948, he then moved into the state Senate.
His wife embarked on a political career and was sitting in turn 1950-1955 in the House of Representatives of the State. In addition, she served on during this time the Board of Directors of the American Association for the United Nations, a significantly supported by Eleanor Roosevelt nonprofit organization that should bring closer the importance and the ideals of the UN to the American people.
In 1954, Richard Neuberger was elected to the U.S. Senate; he died before the expiration of his term of office on March 9, 1960 of a cerebral hemorrhage. To his immediate successors Hall S. Lusk was appointed; at the official election then went to Maurine Neuberger and sat down with 55 percent of the vote against former Governor Elmo Smith by, after which she could take her husband's former seat in Congress from 9 November 1960. Since the choice for the next term of office was carried out at the same time and pulled a virtually congruent results according to Neuberger could remain for a full term of office until January 3, 1967 at the Senate. There she specialized in consumer, environmental and health issues. Among other things, she was involved in one of the first bills to the health warning on cigarette packs.
In 1961 she was appointed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in a run by Eleanor Roosevelt Advisory Commission on the situation of women in the United States ( Presidential Commission on the Status of Women ). From this commission out some years later, the National Organization for Women.
Maurine Neuberger, who decided not to run for another term in 1966, was since 1964 in second marriage with Philip Solomon, a renowned psychiatrist and medical researcher, married; the marriage was divorced in 1967. After her time in the Senate, she worked as a lecturer in consumer issues and American political science at Boston University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and Reed College. Neuberger died in 2000 in Portland; to this day she is the only woman who has represented her country in the U.S. Senate.