1. Maurine Neuberger-Solomon, best known as Maurine Neuberger was an American politician who served as a United States senator for the State of Oregon from November 1960 to January 1967.
11 Facts About Maurine Neuberger
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Maurine Neuberger was the sixth woman elected to the United States Senate and the tenth woman to serve in the body.
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Maurine Neuberger attended public schools, the Oregon College of Education at Monmouth, Oregon from 1922 to 1924, and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1929 with a Bachelor of Arts.
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Maurine Neuberger was an alumna of the Delta Zeta sorority.
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Maurine Neuberger was selected to Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society in her junior year.
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Maurine Neuberger then undertook graduate study at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1936 to 1937.
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The couple married in 1945, after Neuberger completed his service in World War II.
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Maurine Neuberger entered politics herself in 1950 when she was elected a member of the State House of Representatives and served from 1950 to 1955.
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Maurine Neuberger then won a special election on November 8,1960, as the Democratic candidate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband.
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Maurine Neuberger was a resident of Portland, Oregon, until her death on February 22,2000, at the age of 93, of a bone marrow disorder.
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Maurine Neuberger is interred in Beth Israel Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.