If you ask most Oregonians who the first woman governor in state history was, they’ll have an immediate answer … but they’ll be wrong.
Conventional wisdom holds that the first woman to take the gubernatorial purple in the Beaver State was Barbara Roberts, who was elected to the job in 1990. In fact, that’s almost true … but, of course, “almost” doesn’t work very well as an answer to a true-or-false question.
The truth is,…
