Full caption: Senator Maurine B. Neuberger (D-Ore.). Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko. Washington, D.C., August 7, 1962. U.S. News & World Report Collection, Prints and Photographs Division. LC-U9-8293.

Full caption: Senator Maurine B. Neuberger (D-Ore.). Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko. Washington, D.C., August 7, 1962. U.S. News & World Report Collection, Prints and Photographs Division. LC-U9-8293. Full caption: Senator Maurine B. Neuberger (D-Ore.). Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko. Washington, D.C., August 7, 1962. U.S. News & World Report Collection, Prints and Photographs Division. LC-U9-8293.

Maurine B. Neuberger (1907-2000), only the third woman elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate (1961-67), championed many progressive causes, particularly in the areas of health, education, and consumer reform. She began her political career as a representative in the Oregon state legislature alongside her husband, Senator Richard L. Neuberger, who at the time was a state senator. She reasoned, “I decided that I might as well be speaking for my sex in the House of Representatives as knitting socks and sweaters while I watched Dick in the Senate gallery.” An oral history with Neuberger conducted by the Association of Former Members of Congress, Inc., is available in the Recorded Sound Reference Center.