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Kate Brown
Brown in 2021
38th Governor of Oregon
In office February 18, 2015 – January 9, 2023
Preceded by
John Kitzhaber
Succeeded by
Tina Kotek
24th Secretary of State of Oregon
In office January 5, 2009 – February 18, 2015
Governor
Ted Kulongoski John Kitzhaber
Preceded by
Bill Bradbury
Succeeded by
Jeanne Atkins
Member of the Oregon Senate from the 21st district
In office January 13, 1997 – January 2, 2009
Preceded by
Shirley Gold
Succeeded by
Diane Rosenbaum
Member of the Oregon House of Representatives from the 13th district
In office November 26, 1991 – January 12, 1997
Preceded by
Judy Bauman
Succeeded by
Dan Gardner
Personal details
Born
Katherine Brown
(1960-06-21) June 21, 1960 (age 63) Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Dan Little
Children
2 stepchildren
Education
University of Colorado, Boulder (BA) Lewis and Clark College (JD)
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Katherine Brown (born June 21, 1960) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 38th governor of Oregon from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms as the state representative from the 13th district of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1991 to 1997, three terms as the state senator from the 21st district of the Oregon Senate from 1997 to 2009, three terms as majority leader of the Oregon Senate from 2003 to 2009, and two terms as Oregon Secretary of State from 2009 to 2015. She assumed the governorship upon the resignation of John Kitzhaber in 2015.[1] She was elected to serve out the remainder of his gubernatorial term in the special election in 2016 and was reelected to a full term in 2018.
As an openly bisexual woman, Brown has made history several times through her electoral success. In 2008, she became the first openly LGBT person elected secretary of state within a U.S. state, and the first openly LGBT person elected to statewide office in any U.S. state. In 2016, she became the first openly LGBT person elected governor of a U.S. state and the second woman elected governor of Oregon (after Barbara Roberts).[2][3] By the end of her term, Brown had the lowest approval ratings of any incumbent U.S. governor at that time.[4]
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^"Meet America's First Openly Bisexual Governor". MSN. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
^Helena Horton (September 9, 2016). "People are celebrating women who made history on US Election night in response to Donald Trump win". The Daily Telegraph. London, UK. Archived from the original on January 12, 2022. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
^"New poll finds Kate Brown is nation's least popular governor". May 2022. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
KateBrown to extend death penalty moratorium". Reuters. Archived from the original on February 22, 2015. Mapes, Jeff (March 16, 2015). "KateBrown gets...
on Oregon's death row) was commuted to life without parole by Governor KateBrown. In 2011, Christian Longo founded Gifts of Anatomical Value from Everyone...
KateBrown and Jared Polis) elected governor of a U.S. state, as well as the third woman elected governor of Oregon (after Barbara Roberts and Kate Brown)...
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full four-year term. In the 2016 special election, Democratic Governor KateBrown had been elected to serve the last two years of John Kitzhaber's term...
Attorney General of Massachusetts), Tina Kotek (Governor of Oregon), KateBrown (former Governor of Oregon and former Secretary of State of Oregon), Tammy...
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and the general fiscal state of Oregon, implying Democratic governor KateBrown was at fault. Knight was once again a major donor during the 2022 Oregon...
became the first openly gay man and second openly LGBT person (after KateBrown) elected governor of a U.S. state. He is also the first Jewish person...
place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Oregon. Incumbent KateBrown took office when fellow Democrat John Kitzhaber resigned on February 18...
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in 2014 and resigned in February 2015. Incumbent Democratic governor KateBrown, who as Oregon Secretary of State succeeded to the governorship, ran for...
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Libertarian nominee was Chris Powell. Stitt won the general election. KateBrown became governor of Oregon in February 2015 following the resignation of...
Kitzhaber is the only governor to have served non-consecutive terms. KateBrown, who completed Kitzhaber's final term after his resignation, was elected...
Beautiful Kate is a 2009 Australian drama film directed by Rachel Ward and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown, Maeve Dermody and Sophie...
Wheeler's proposal, 3–2. In August 2019, Wheeler requested that Governor KateBrown keep the National Guard ready to respond in anticipation of a potentially...
that the state will close its death row. On December 13, 2022, Governor KateBrown commuted the death sentences of everyone on Oregon's death row to life...
Kate Louise Brown (May 8, 1857 – December 31, 1921) was a children's educator and author who wrote 17 works in a total of 41 publications, in addition...
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