Friends and Colleagues Honor Maurine Neuberger

A descendant of Oregon pioneers, Maurine Brown was born in Cloverdale, Oregon in 1906. After working as a journalist and research aide to her husband, Maurine was elected to the Oregon House, where she served three terms. The press soon discovered the appeal of an intelligent and highly motivated woman who knew how to get things done. She defeated the dairy lobby by showing up at the legislature in a kitchen apron, to demonstrate how housewives had to work to add color to white margarine. As a member of the United States Senate from 1961 through 1966, the first Democratic woman elected to that body without having first served by appointment, Maurine continued her passionate championship of civil rights, education, environmental protection, public health, and consumer rights. Read her full biography.

Back to Who is a Heroine?