{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Bruce Hugo | image = | image_size = 160px | caption = | state = Oregon | state_house = Oregon | district = 1st | term_start = 1983 | term_end = 1993 | predecessor = | successor = | constituency = | state2 = | state_senate2 = | district2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | majority = | party = Democratic | birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|9|11}} | birth_place = Portland, Oregon, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|01|04|1945|09|11}} | death_place = St. Helens, Oregon, U.S. | profession = communications consultant | relations = | alma_mater = | spouse = Linda Hugo | children = | website = | partner = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | battles = | allegiance = }} '''Bruce Chadwick Hugo''' (September 11, 1945 &ndash; January 4, 2017) was an American politician and member of the Oregon House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.state.or.us/repository/2011/201101131436324/index.pdf|title=Alphabetical List of Oregon Legislators and Related Information |accessdate=June 8, 2015|publisher=State of Oregon Legislative Administration Committee |year=1993}}</ref> He was a communications consultant.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DLqOAAAAMAAJ&q=%22HANLON,+TOM+D%E2%80%94+Dist.+2+b.+Hempstead,+NY+8/1945+1983/1985/1987***|title=Oregon Blue Book|publisher=Oregon Secretary of State|year= 1987 }}</ref> After voting to legalize video poker, he became addicted to it and spent hundreds of dollars of Columbia county money on gaming machines in a bar in Scappoose.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zimmerman |first=Rachel |date=1995-03-18 |title=Scappoose Journal; Political (and Personal) Woes in a Vote |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/18/us/scappoose-journal-political-and-personal-woes-in-a-vote.html |access-date=2025-03-26 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

He died on January 4, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pamplinmedia.com/obit/180-scs-obituaries/340199-220348-bruce-c-hugo|title=Bruce C. Hugo|author=Thill, Nicole|publisher=Pamplin Media Group|date=January 13, 2017|accessdate=January 24, 2017|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202034537/http://pamplinmedia.com/obit/180-scs-obituaries/340199-220348-bruce-c-hugo|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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