Ronald Clayton Cease (born March 3, 1931), is an American politician who was a member of 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 ...

and

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. Cease was born in

Britton, South Dakota Britton is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,215 at the 2020 census. A weekly newspaper, the ''Britton Journal,'' is published in Britton. History Britton was founded in 1884 a ...

in 1931 and attended the Vanport Extension Center (later Portland State University). He was a professor of Public Administration and Political Science at

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from 1966 to 2000. From 2001 to 2008, he sat on the Oregon Department of Forestry's (ODF) Committee for Family Forestlands. His wife,

Jane Cease Jane Hardy Cease (born January 23, 1936), was an American politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon State Senate. Cease was born in Columbus, Mississippi and attended Tulane University. She married Ron Cease in ...

, also was an Oregon state legislator, serving stints in the State House of Senate.

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1931 births Living people Democratic Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives People from Britton, South Dakota Politicians from Portland, Oregon Portland State University alumni Portland State University faculty {{Oregon-politician-stub