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Maurine Neuberger
United States Senator fromOregon
In office November 9, 1960 – January 3, 1967
Preceded by	Hall Lusk
Succeeded by	Mark Hatfield
Personal details
Born	Maurine Brown (1907-01-09)January 9, 1907 Cloverdale, Oregon, U.S.
Died	February 22, 2000(2000-02-22) (aged 93) Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Resting place	Beth Israel Cemetery (Portland, Oregon)
Political party	Democratic
Spouses	Richard Neuberger ​ ​ (m. 1945; died 1960)​ Philip Solomon ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1967)​
Education	Western Oregon University University of Oregon (BA) University of California, Los Angeles

Maurine Neuberger-Solomon, best known asMaurine Neuberger (néeBrown; January 9, 1907 – February 22, 2000) was an Americanpolitician who served as aUnited Statessenator for the State ofOregon from November 1960 to January 1967. She was the sixth woman elected to theUnited States Senate and the tenth woman to serve in the body. She and her husband,Richard L. Neuberger, are regarded as the U.S. Senate's first husband-and-wife legislative team. To date, she is the only woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Oregon.

Neuberger was born inCloverdale,Tillamook County, Oregon. She attended public schools, the Oregon College of Education atMonmouth, Oregon from 1922 to 1924, and graduated from theUniversity of Oregon in 1929 with aBachelor of Arts. She was an alumna of theDelta Zeta sorority. She was selected toMortar Board National College Senior Honor Society in her junior year. She then undertook graduate study at theUniversity of California at Los Angeles from 1936 to 1937. Brown was a teacher in Oregon public schools between 1932 and 1944; in 1937, while teaching in a Portland high school, she metRichard L. Neuberger. The couple married in 1945, after Neuberger completed his service inWorld War II.

Maurine Neuberger entered politics herself in 1950 when she was elected a member of theState House of Representatives and served from 1950 to 1955. In 1952, when she was reelected to the state House and her husband was reelected to the state Senate, she won with more votes than her husband.^[1] During this period she was also a member of the board of directors of the American Association for the United Nations. Richard was elected to the United States Senate in 1954.

In 1960, Richard died of cancer. Maurine then won a special election onNovember 8, 1960, as theDemocratic candidate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband.Hall S. Lusk had been appointed by the governor to the Senate upon Richard's death. After the election, Maurine completed Richard's remaining term from November 9, 1960, to January 3, 1961. At the same time as the special election, she won the general election for the term commencing January 3, 1961, and ending January 3, 1967; she was not a candidate for reelection in 1966. A 1965 article noted that GovernorMark Hatfield addressed correspondence to the Senator to her married name,Maurine Neuberger-Solomon, with the intention of making her 1964 remarriage an issue in a potential 1966 campaign.^[2]

Her activities in government focused on consumer, environmental and health issues, including the sponsorship of one of the first bills to require warning labels oncigarette packaging.Time described her in 1964 as a "a longtime crusader for labeling laws".^[3]

In 1961, PresidentJohn F. Kennedy appointed her to be a member of thePresidential Commission on the Status of Women. In 1965-68 she andMuriel Fox co-chaired then-Vice PresidentHubert Humphrey's task force on Women's Goals.^[4]

Maurine marriedPhilip Solomon M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry atHarvard Medical School and Physician-in-Chief, Psychiatry Service,Boston City Hospital, on July 11, 1964, inWashington, DC. They divorced in 1967.

Following her time in the Senate she was employed as a lecturer on consumer affairs and the status of women, and as teacher of American government atBoston University, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies atHarvard University, andReed College. She was a resident ofPortland, Oregon, until her death on February 22, 2000, at the age of 93, of a bone marrow disorder.^[5] She is interred in Beth Israel Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.

• Women in the United States Senate

• United States Congress."Maurine Neuberger (id: N000052)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Portland State University. Portland's Walk of the Heroines: Maurine Neuberger at theWayback Machine (archived March 11, 2007)

• Jensen, Kimberly."Maurine Neuberger".The Oregon Encyclopedia.
• Papers, 1966–1969.Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
• Biography from the Oregon Historical Society.

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