Barbara Roberts

thumb|upright|Barbara Roberts in 2009 Barbara K. Roberts (born December 21, 1936, in Corvallis, Oregon) is an American politician from the state of Oregon. A native of the state, she served as the 34th Governor of Oregon from 1991 to 1995. She was the first woman to serve as Oregon governor, and the only woman elected to that office until 2016. A Democrat, Roberts was also the first woman to serve as majority leader in the Oregon House of Representatives. She also won two terms as Oregon Secretary of State, and served in local and county government in Portland. Quotes Today, I honor the memory of those brave settlers of Oregon, and pay tribute, as well, to the native Americans already inhabiting this land before pioneers like my great-great-grandparents arrived here in the mid-1800’s. Such dreams those pioneers had for this territory. Some instinct drew them here, a fate a pulling, a desire for deep and lasting change in their lives. They embraced that change. They sought it out. Theirs was a quest for new horizons, for new beginnings. For a new homeland. They rode. They walked. They staved. They forge. And they died. But they kept their eyes westward. They gave us Oregon. Barbara Roberts (1991) "Governor Barbara Roberts Inaugural Message, 1991", Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State. External links Category:Politicians from Oregon Category:Governors of Oregon Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians Category:Women activists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:1936 births Category:Living people Category:Women politicians in the United States Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Women born in the 1930s