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Former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts looks back over her career, as she accepts civic award
Former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts looks back over her career, as she accepts civic award
Former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts looks back over her career, as she accepts civic award

Published on: 04/30/2024

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FILE: Former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts sits for an interview in her home in Southeast Portland on May 28, 2019.

In 1990, Barbara Roberts became the first woman elected governor of Oregon. She began her political career as a member of the Parkrose school board and then the board of Mount Hood Community College. She was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1980 and was chosen by her colleagues to be the House majority leader two years later. Two years after that, she became Oregon’s secretary of state, before going on to the top office. We spoke to Roberts in front of an audience at the Civics Learning Project’s Legal Citizen of the Year award ceremony.

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