Jeannette Hamby was an American politician and nurse in Oregon.
18 Facts About Jeannette Hamby
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Jeannette Hamby grew up in Virginia, Minnesota, a mining town in the Mesabi Iron Range.
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Jeannette Hamby was born to immigrants from Finland and only learned English after starting school.
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Jeannette Hamby then became a stewardess for an airline and moved to Seattle, Washington.
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In Hillsboro, Eugene Hamby worked for his father while Jeannette began working for Washington County as a public health nurse.
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Jeannette Hamby then continued her education, earning a master's degree from Oregon Health Sciences University in nursing education and then a doctorate in vocational and career education from Oregon State University in 1977 on the same day as her oldest daughter graduated from Hillsboro High School.
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Jeannette Hamby then worked for the Washington County Education Service District as a career education coordinator.
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Jeannette Hamby began her political career when she was elected to the Hillsboro Union High School Board in 1971.
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Jeannette Hamby was the first woman ever on the school board, and served until 1981 when she was elected to higher office.
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In 1980, Jeannette Hamby ran against Democrat Al Young to serve District 4 in the Oregon House of Representatives.
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Fellow Republican and state senator Nancy Ryles had encouraged Jeannette Hamby to run for the office.
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Jeannette Hamby won re-election to another term in 1986, and again in 1990 after she ran unopposed in the Republican primary in May After winning another four-year term in 1994, Jeannette Hamby faced conservative Republican Charles Starr in the Republican primary in 1998.
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Jeannette Hamby is an environmentalist due to her witnessing the destruction of the land around her hometown from open-pit mining.
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Jeannette Hamby was considered as a possible candidate for the Republican nomination in Oregon's 1st congressional district for 1992.
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Jeannette Hamby returned to Nicaragua in 1990 to observe their elections.
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Jeannette Hamby's bill did not become law, and the lottery game continued until 2005.
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Jeannette Hamby supported legislation to allow patients at the Oregon State Hospital and prisoners in the corrections system to receive visits from pets.
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Jeannette Hamby died January 27,2012, of complications from a stroke and cancer at the age of 78.