{{short description|American politician (born 1951)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Terry Beyer | image = | image_size = | state_house = Oregon | district = 12th | term_start = 2001 | term_end = 2013 | preceded = Bill Morrissette | succeeded = John Lively | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|01|26}} | birth_place = Eugene, Oregon | death_date = | death_place = | party = Democratic | spouse = Lee Beyer | profession = | footnotes = }}
'''Elizabeth Terry Beyer''' (born January 26, 1951) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 12 in the city of Springfield from 2001 to 2013.
==Early life and career== Beyer was born in Eugene, Oregon, where she attended Lane Community College.<ref name=vs>{{cite web|title=Elizabeth Terry Beyer|url=http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=46578|publisher=Project VoteSmart|accessdate=February 8, 2011}}</ref> She was a member of the Springfield City Council from 1993 to 1999, and worked as a legislative assistant to her husband Lee, a member of the Oregon House, and later the Oregon State Senate, beginning in 1991.<ref name=steves>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BUZWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f-sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6300,1543274 |title=Terry Beyer selected for post |newspaper=The Register-Guard |date=November 6, 2001 |last=Steves |first=David |accessdate=February 8, 2011 }}</ref>
==Political career== In 2001, her husband Lee resigned from the Oregon Senate to take a position on the Oregon Public Utility Commission. Oregon state representative Bill Morrisette was appointed to replace him in the Senate, leaving an opening in House District 42.<ref name=steves/> A list of potential replacements for Morrisette was submitted to the Lane County Board of Commissioners by a Democratic precinct nominating committee, but all were rejected, leaving the responsibility of the appointment to Governor John Kitzhaber, who chose Terry Beyer for the position.<ref name=steves/>
In 2002, she was elected to a full term in the district (now renumbered 12), and has been re-elected four times since then.<ref name=housebio>{{cite web|url=http://www.leg.state.or.us/beyert/bio.htm|title=Representative Terry Beyer|publisher=Oregon State Legislature|accessdate=February 8, 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611144119/http://www.leg.state.or.us/beyert/bio.htm|archivedate=June 11, 2011}}</ref> Beyer is the Chair of the House Transportation Committee and is a member of the Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Communities Committee and the Ways and Means Sub-Committee on Transportation and Economic Development.<ref name=housebio/>
==Personal== Beyer and her husband Lee have been married more than 40 years and have three children.<ref name=housebio/>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20101212053338/http://www.leg.state.or.us/beyert/ Legislative website] * [http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=46578 Project VoteSmart biography]
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