{{Short description|American politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jane Cease | image = | image_size = 160px | caption = | state = Oregon | state_house = Oregon | district = 19th | term_start = 1979 | term_end = 1985 | predecessor = | successor = | constituency = | state2 = Oregon | state_senate2 = Oregon | district2 = 10th | term_start2 = 1985 | term_end2 = 1991 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = Ron Cease | party = Democratic | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1936|1|23}} | birth_place = Columbus, Mississippi | death_date = | death_place = | profession = | relations = | alma_mater = Tulane University | spouse = Ron Cease | children = | website = | partner = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | battles = | allegiance = }} '''Jane Hardy Cease''' (born January 23, 1936), was an American politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon State Senate.
Cease was born in Columbus, Mississippi and attended Tulane University.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DLqOAAAAMAAJ&q=%22cease+jane%22++1936 |title=Oregon Blue Book |year=1987 |access-date=October 8, 2014}}</ref> She married Ron Cease in 1960; they moved to Oregon in 1966.<ref>{{cite book |year=1991 |chapter=Jane Hardy Cease |title=Who's Who of American Women, 1991-1992 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/23186551 |edition=17th |location=Chicago |last=Marquis Who's Who Inc. |page=167 |isbn=978-0-8379-0417-7 |oclc=23186551 |access-date=April 29, 2023 |via=WorldCat}}</ref> She served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, when she resigned to serve in the Oregon State Senate. Her replacement to the seat was her husband, Ron. She served in the State Senate from 1985 to 1991, when she was succeeded once again by her husband, Ron.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://library.state.or.us/repository/2011/201101131436324/index.pdf|title=Alphabetical List of Oregon's representatives|website=state.or.us|access-date=11 March 2024|archive-date=July 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724115642/https://library.state.or.us/repository/2011/201101131436324/index.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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