{{Short description|American politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name =Ron Cease | image= | image_size=160px | caption = | state = Oregon | state_house = Oregon | district = 19th | term_start =1985 | term_end = 1991 | predecessor = | successor = Avel Gordly | constituency = | state2 = Oregon | state_senate2 =Oregon | district2 =10th | term_start2 =1991 | term_end2=1997 | predecessor2 = Jane Cease | successor2 = Avel Gordly | party = Democratic | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1931|3|3}} | birth_place =Britton, South Dakota | death_date= | death_place = | profession =Professor | relations= | alma_mater= | spouse =Jane Cease | children= | website = | partner= | branch= | service_years= | rank= | battles= | allegiance= }} '''Ronald Clayton Cease''' (born March 3, 1931), is an American politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon State Senate.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://multco.us/file/11966/download |title=Multnomah County |access-date=2014-10-08 |archive-date=2014-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016045837/https://multco.us/file/11966/download |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Cease was born in Britton, South Dakota in 1931 and attended the Vanport Extension Center (later Portland State University). He was a professor of Public Administration and Political Science at Portland State University from 1966 to 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pdx.edu/hatfieldschool/a-lifetime-of-public-service|title=Portland State College of Urban & Public Affairs: Hatfield School of Government - A Lifetime of Public Service|publisher=|accessdate=9 October 2014}}</ref> From 2001 to 2008, he sat on the Oregon Department of Forestry's (ODF) Committee for Family Forestlands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oregon.gov/odf/pages/news/nr5807.aspx|title=Oregon Department of Forestry Newsroom|publisher=|accessdate=9 October 2014}}</ref> His wife, Jane Cease, also was an Oregon state legislator, serving stints in the State House of Representatives and the State Senate.<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}}</ref>
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