Jackie Taylor (politician)

Jacqueline S. Taylor (February 16, 1935, in Thomas, Oklahoma – July 15, 2008, in Astoria, Oregon) was an Oregon politician. She was a Native American, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

Taylor was born in 1935 in Thomas, Oklahoma to Richard and Bertha (Murray) Self.

She graduated from Boise State University. She married Nelson Taylor in May 1952. The Taylors moved to Boise, Idaho, in 1955, then to Nampa, Idaho, in 1960, and finally to Astoria, Oregon, in 1979. They owned and operated Johnson Drug in Warrenton, Oregon.

Taylor was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1990, and served until 2000, when she was prevented from running for re-election because of term limits.

After stepping down from the Oregon Legislature, she was elected to the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Tribal Legislature as the representative from District 8, which includes Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska.

Taylor died on July 15, 2008, in Astoria, Oregon, of cancer.

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