Jane Hardy Cease (born January 23, 1936), was 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

Oregon State Senate The Oregon State Senate is the upper house of the statewide legislature for the US state of Oregon. Along with the lower chamber Oregon House of Representatives it makes up the Oregon Legislative Assembly. There are 30 members of the state Sena ...

. Cease was born in

Columbus, Mississippi Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, on the eastern border of Mississippi, United States, located primarily east, but also north and northeast of the Tombigbee River, which is also part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterwa ...

and attended

Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private university, private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into ...

. She married

Ron Cease Ronald Clayton Cease (born March 3, 1931), is an American politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon State Senate. Cease was born in Britton, South Dakota in 1931 and attended the Vanport Extension Center (later ...

in 1960; they moved to Oregon in 1966. She served in the

from 1979 to 1985, when she resigned to serve in the

. Her replacement to the seat was her husband, Ron. She served in the State Senate from 1985 to 1991, when she was succeeded once again by her husband, Ron.http://library.state.or.us/repository/2011/201101131436324/index.pdf

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