What is Jackie Winters?
[[File:Senator Jackie Winters 3 (3).jpg|thumb|200px|Jackie Winters]] '''Jackie Winters''' (April 15, 1937 – May 29, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] politician. She was born in [[Topeka, Kansas]]. She was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]. She was the first [[African-American]] Republican elected to [[Oregon]] [[legislature]]. She served as a member of the [[Oregon House of Representatives]] from 1999 to 2003. She was a member of the [[Oregon State Senate|Oregon Senate]] from 2003 until her death in May 2019. Winters was Minority Leader of the Oregon Senate between November 2017 and January 2019. Winters died of [[lung cancer]] on May 29, 2019. She was 82.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/05/jackie-winters-longtime-oregon-state-senator-dies-at-82.html|title=Jackie Winters, first African-American Republican elected to Oregon legislature, dies at 82|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=May 29, 2019|access-date=May 30, 2019|author1=Friedman, Gordon R.|author2=Lehman, Chris}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} *{{Official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20061224092418/http://www.jackiewinters.com/}} *{{C-SPAN|jackiewinters02}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Winters, Jackie}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:African-American politicians]] [[Category:Deaths from lung cancer]] [[Category:Politicians from Topeka, Kansas]] [[Category:Politicians from Oregon]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] {{US-bio-stub}}