Bergeson, Marian

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California--Politics and government
(lcsh) Orange County (Calif.)--Politics and government
Education and state

found: California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Local Government. County fiscal problems, 1987:t.p. (Senator Marian Bergeson)

found: Los Angeles times WWW site, viewed July 7, 2016(in obituary dated July 6, 2016: Marian Bergeson, a pioneering Orange County politician who was the first woman to serve both in the state Senate and Assembly, has died; she was 90; in the mid-1990s, as an Orange County supervisor, she helped guide the battered county government out of its bankruptcy; died Wednesday morning [July 6, 2016] in Newport Beach; she and her husband, Garth, moved to Newport Beach in the late 1950s; she won a seat on the local school board and became president of the California School Boards Assn.; in 1976, Bergeson, a Republican, became a write-in candidate for an Assembly seat in Orange County 10 days before the election, winning the primary and eventually the generally election; in 1986, Bergeson won a seat in the state Senate; after her stint on the Board of Supervisors, she served as then-Gov. Pete Wilson's education secretary; went on to the California Board of Education)