Shirley Gold (October 2, 1925 – February 27, 1998) was an American politician who served in the

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from 1981 to 1989. She did not run for re-election in 1988, but instead ran for the

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, where she would serve from 1989 to 1997. She was succeeded in the House by fellow Democrat Bev Stein. In 1995, Gold was described as a "longtime advocate of child care" as the chair of the Senate Revenue Committee that sponsored two bills that intended to improve childcare workers' pay. She did not run for re-election to the Senate in 1996, and was succeeded by fellow Democrat

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, who would later become Secretary of State and then Governor of Oregon. Gold died of

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on February 27, 1998, in

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at age 72.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gold, Shirley 1925 births 1998 deaths Democratic Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives Democratic Party Oregon state senators Politicians from Portland, Oregon 20th-century members of the Oregon Legislative Assembly