William "Chip" Shields (born 1967) is an American politician who served as a member of the
Oregon State Senate from September 2009 until 2017. He had previously represented District 43 in the
Oregon House of Representatives
The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. There are 60 members of the House, representing 60 districts across the state, each with a population of 65,000. The House meets in the west wing of the ...
from 2004 until his appointment to replace
Margaret Carter
Margaret Louise Carter (née Hunter; December 29, 1935) is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1999 and 2001 to 2009 and was the first black woman elected to the state's legislature ...
to represent Senate District 22.
Shields was elected in a 2010 special election, and reelected in 2012. He retired in 2016.
References
External links
Oregon State House - Chip Shields- official government website
Project Vote Smart - Representative Chip Shields (OR)profile
*''Follow the Money'' - Chip Shields
20062004
campaign contributions
1967 births
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives
Portland State University alumni
21st-century American politicians
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