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'''Marian C. Bergeson''' (August 31, 1925 – July 6, 2016) was an American [[politician]] from [[California]]. A [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], she became the first woman to serve in both the [[California State Assembly]] and [[California State Senate]], she was a member of the [[California State Legislature]] from 1978 to 1995, a member of the [[Orange County Board of Supervisors]] from 1995 to 1996, and California State [[Cabinet Secretary|Secretary]] of [[Education]] from 1996 to 1999. In 1986, [[Capistrano Unified School District#Schools|Marian Bergeson Elementary School]] in [[Laguna Niguel, California|Laguna Niguel]] was named after her.
'''Marian C. Bergeson''' (August 31, 1925 – July 6, 2016) was an American [[politician]] from [[California]]. A [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], she became the first woman to serve in both the [[California State Assembly]] and [[California State Senate]], she was a member of the [[California State Legislature]] from 1978 to 1995, a member of the [[Orange County Board of Supervisors]] from 1995 to 1996, and California State [[Cabinet Secretary|Secretary]] of [[Education]] from 1996 to 1999. In 1986, [[Capistrano Unified School District#Schools|Marian Bergeson Elementary School]] in [[Laguna Niguel, California|Laguna Niguel]] was named after her.


==Early life and family==
==Early life and family==
Born in [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], Bergeson earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[Elementary Education]] from [[Brigham Young University]]. A resident of [[Newport Beach, California]], Bergeson and her husband, Garth, had four children (Nancy, Garth Jr., Julie, and James) and eleven grandchildren. Her daughter Nancy was an attorney in [[Portland, Oregon]], before her murder in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/11/assistant_us_public_defender_f.html|title=Assistant U.S. public defender found slain in SW Portland home|last=Russell|first=Michael|date=November 25, 2009|work=[[The Oregonian]]|accessdate=26 November 2009|archive-date=28 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128075026/http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/11/assistant_us_public_defender_f.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Born in [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], Bergeson earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[Elementary Education]] from [[Brigham Young University]]. A resident of [[Newport Beach, California]], Bergeson and her husband, Garth, had four children (Nancy, Garth Jr., Julie, and James) and eleven grandchildren.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} Her daughter Nancy was an attorney in [[Portland, Oregon]], before her murder in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/11/assistant_us_public_defender_f.html|title=Assistant U.S. public defender found slain in SW Portland home|last=Russell|first=Michael|date=November 25, 2009|work=[[The Oregonian]]|accessdate=26 November 2009|archive-date=28 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128075026/http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/11/assistant_us_public_defender_f.html|url-status=live}}</ref>


Bergeson was a member of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dodero |first=Tony |date=2001-02-24 |title=Local LDS Politician Named 'Newsmaker of the Decade' |url=http://www.mormonstoday.com/000102/D2Bergeson01.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922151648/http://www.mormonstoday.com/000102/D2Bergeson01.shtml |archive-date=2021-09-22 |access-date=2018-05-02 |website=Mormons Today}}</ref>
Bergeson was a member of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dodero |first=Tony |date=2001-02-24 |title=Local LDS Politician Named 'Newsmaker of the Decade' |url=http://www.mormonstoday.com/000102/D2Bergeson01.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922151648/http://www.mormonstoday.com/000102/D2Bergeson01.shtml |archive-date=2021-09-22 |access-date=2018-05-02 |website=Mormons Today}}</ref>
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Bergeson died at the age of 90 due to complications from surgery for [[pancreatic cancer]] at [[Hoag (health network)|Hoag Hospital]] in [[Newport Beach, California]].<ref name="OCRegisterObit">{{cite news|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bergeson-721650-newport-state.html|title=Marian Bergeson first woman to serve in both state Senate and Assembly dies at 90|newspaper=[[Orange County Register]]|date=July 6, 2016|last=Graham|first=Jordan|access-date=July 6, 2016|archive-date=July 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707152916/http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bergeson-721650-newport-state.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="LATimesObit">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-marian-bergeson-obit-20160706-story.html|title=Newport's Marian Bergeson, first woman to serve in both Senate and Assembly, dies|newspaper=[[Daily Pilot]]/[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 6, 2016|last=Chan|first=Alex|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=June 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628132551/https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-marian-bergeson-obit-20160706-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SacBeeObit">{{cite news|url=http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article87974712.html|title=Marian Bergeson, first woman to serve in both legislative houses, dies|newspaper=[[Sacramento Bee]]|date=July 6, 2016|last=Walters|first=Dan|access-date=July 6, 2016|archive-date=July 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706181317/http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article87974712.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Bergeson died at the age of 90 due to complications from surgery for [[pancreatic cancer]] at [[Hoag (health network)|Hoag Hospital]] in [[Newport Beach, California]].<ref name="OCRegisterObit">{{cite news|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bergeson-721650-newport-state.html|title=Marian Bergeson first woman to serve in both state Senate and Assembly dies at 90|newspaper=[[Orange County Register]]|date=July 6, 2016|last=Graham|first=Jordan|access-date=July 6, 2016|archive-date=July 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707152916/http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bergeson-721650-newport-state.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="LATimesObit">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-marian-bergeson-obit-20160706-story.html|title=Newport's Marian Bergeson, first woman to serve in both Senate and Assembly, dies|newspaper=[[Daily Pilot]]/[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 6, 2016|last=Chan|first=Alex|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=June 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628132551/https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-marian-bergeson-obit-20160706-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SacBeeObit">{{cite news|url=http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article87974712.html|title=Marian Bergeson, first woman to serve in both legislative houses, dies|newspaper=[[Sacramento Bee]]|date=July 6, 2016|last=Walters|first=Dan|access-date=July 6, 2016|archive-date=July 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706181317/http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article87974712.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Controversy==
The Marian Bergeson Series, named after Marian Bergeson <ref>{{Cite web |title=The Bergeson Series |url=http://www.thebergesonseries.com/ |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=The Bergeson Series |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118010114/https://www.thebergesonseries.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> has been a source of controversy for its lack of diversity, and inclusion and for its promotion of leaders who have expressed anti-Semitic, anti-black sentiments, including Gracie Van Der Mark.<ref>{{Cite web |title=You are being redirected... |url=https://orangecounty.adl.org/news/anti-defamation-league-joins-call-for-hb-finance-commissioners-removal/ |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=orangecounty.adl.org |archive-date=2023-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118010106/https://orangecounty.adl.org/news/anti-defamation-league-joins-call-for-hb-finance-commissioners-removal/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=HB Finance Commissioner Called Blacks “Colored People” Online, Denies Antisemitism – OC Weekly |url=https://www.ocweekly.com/hb-finance-commissioner-called-blacks-colored-people-on-social-media-2/ |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=www.ocweekly.com |archive-date=2023-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118010116/https://www.ocweekly.com/hb-finance-commissioner-called-blacks-colored-people-on-social-media-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Gracie Van Der Mark was twice removed from a Huntington Beach School Board for making racist references.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vega |first=Priscella |date=2018-05-08 |title=Huntington Beach woman removed from 2 school district panels over alleged ‘colored people’ comment denies racism claims |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-hb-gracey-20180508-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118010110/https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-hb-gracey-20180508-story.html |archive-date=2023-01-18 |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=Daily Pilot |language=en-US}}</ref> Marian Bergeson Series has graduated other questionable alumni, including Deb Pauly, a former Villa Park Councilwoman, accused of making Islamophobic comments at a rally in 2011. <ref>{{Citation |title=Hate Comes to Orange County |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFkykjmbM |access-date=2023-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118010110/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFkykjmbM |url-status=live |publisher=[[Council on American–Islamic Relations|CAIR-LA]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-01-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Santa Cruz |first=Nicole |date=2012-05-24 |title=Controversial O.C. politician loses local GOP leadership post |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2012-may-24-la-me-0524-pauly-ousted-20120524-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118010105/https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2012-may-24-la-me-0524-pauly-ousted-20120524-story.html |archive-date=2023-01-18 |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>


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Marian Bergeson
Member of the California State Senate
In office
December 3, 1984 – January 3, 1995
Preceded byPaul B. Carpenter (37th)
John Lewis (35th)
Succeeded byDavid G. Kelley (37th)
Ross Johnson (35th)
Constituency37th (1984–1992)
35th (1992–1995)
Member of the California State Assembly
In office
December 4, 1978 – November 30, 1984
Preceded byRonald Cordova (74th)
John Lewis (70th)
Succeeded byRobert C. Frazee (74th)
Gil Ferguson (70th)
Constituency74th (1978–1982)
70th (1982–1984)
Personal details
Born(1925-08-31)August 31, 1925
Salt Lake City, Utah
DiedJuly 6, 2016(2016-07-06) (aged 90)
Newport Beach, California
Political partyRepublican
SpouseGarth Bergeson (m. 1950)
ChildrenNancy, Garth Jr., Julie, James

Marian C. Bergeson (August 31, 1925 – July 6, 2016) was an American politician from California. A Republican, she became the first woman to serve in both the California State Assembly and California State Senate, she was a member of the California State Legislature from 1978 to 1995, a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors from 1995 to 1996, and California State Secretary of Education from 1996 to 1999. In 1986, Marian Bergeson Elementary School in Laguna Niguel was named after her.

Early life and family

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Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Bergeson earned a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from Brigham Young University. A resident of Newport Beach, California, Bergeson and her husband, Garth, had four children (Nancy, Garth Jr., Julie, and James) and eleven grandchildren.[citation needed] Her daughter Nancy was an attorney in Portland, Oregon, before her murder in 2009.[1]

Bergeson was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[2]

Political career

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Elected to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District Board of Education in 1964, she was reelected to the board in 1968, 1972, and 1976. In 1978, Bergeson won 74% of the vote to be elected as California State Assemblywoman for the 74th Assembly District. In 1980, she won 74% of the vote in a three-way race to be re-elected to her seat. In 1982, she again won 74% of the vote for re-election after her district was renumbered as the 70th Assembly District after the 1980s redistricting.

Bergeson made history in 1984 by becoming the first woman to have won election as both a California State Assemblymember and State Senator after she won 74% of the vote to be elected as California State Senator for the 37th Senate District. Bergeson was re-elected in 1988 with 71% of the vote in a three-way race.

In 1990, Bergeson ran for Lieutenant Governor of California. The winner of the 1990 election for Lieutenant Governor was poised to make history, as Bergeson would have been the first woman to be Lieutenant Governor while incumbent Leo T. McCarthy would have been the first Lieutenant Governor to win a third term. Bergeson was unable to unseat the incumbent McCarthy, losing by a margin of 51%-42%.

Bergeson was elected to her third term as a State Senator in 1992, winning 62.2% of the vote in a three-way race in her district after it was partially redrawn and renumbered the 35th District in the 1990s redistricting.

In 1994, Bergeson won more than 98% of the vote to win the election as an Orange County Supervisor, representing the 5th District.

Bergeson resigned from her supervisorial seat in 1996 when she was appointed by Governor Pete Wilson as California Secretary of Education. In 1999, outgoing Republican Governor Wilson and incoming Democratic Governor Gray Davis agreed to appoint Bergeson to the California State Board of Education.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Bergeson to a four-year term on the California Transportation Commission in 2004 and reappointed her for a second term in 2008.

Bergeson died at the age of 90 due to complications from surgery for pancreatic cancer at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, California.[3][4][5]

References

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  1. ^ Russell, Michael (November 25, 2009). "Assistant U.S. public defender found slain in SW Portland home". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 28 November 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
  2. ^ Dodero, Tony (2001-02-24). "Local LDS Politician Named 'Newsmaker of the Decade'". Mormons Today. Archived from the original on 2021-09-22. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  3. ^ Graham, Jordan (July 6, 2016). "Marian Bergeson first woman to serve in both state Senate and Assembly dies at 90". Orange County Register. Archived from the original on July 7, 2016. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
  4. ^ Chan, Alex (July 6, 2016). "Newport's Marian Bergeson, first woman to serve in both Senate and Assembly, dies". Daily Pilot/Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 28, 2019. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  5. ^ Walters, Dan (July 6, 2016). "Marian Bergeson, first woman to serve in both legislative houses, dies". Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on July 6, 2016. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
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California Assembly
Preceded by California State Assemblymember
74th District
December 4, 1978 – November 30, 1982 		Succeeded by
Preceded by California State Assemblymember
70th District
December 6, 1982 – November 30, 1984 		Succeeded by
California Senate
Preceded by California State Senator
37th District
December 3, 1984 – November 30, 1992 		Succeeded by
Preceded by California State Senator
35th District
December 7, 1992 – January 3, 1995 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Orange County Supervisor
5th District
January 3, 1995 – November 5, 1996 		Succeeded by
Preceded by California Secretary of Education
1996–1999 		Succeeded by
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