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Jeff Golden

Jeff Golden

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State Senator

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6
Roll-call votes
2
Sponsored bills
0
Statements
0
Finance records

Profile Snapshot

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Office
State Senator
State
Oregon
Jurisdiction
3
Serving
Currently serving
Term
2019 - Present

Jeff Golden attended Harvard University as a National Scholar during the height of the Vietnam War and decided to swap the Ivy Halls for 20 acres in the backwoods of Oregon and a used chainsaw. He chronicled that journey in the book Watermelon Summer (Lippincott & Co, 1971). After a decade building homes, guiding whitewater river trips, and working in the forests of the Cascade Mountains, Jeff dropped back in to earn a Masters in Communications degree from Stanford University. He has spent the last 35 years in politics, broadcasting and editorial journalism and organizational consulting. His political career includes service as a Jackson County Commissioner, Chief of Staff to the Oregon Senate President, and Environmental Policy aide to the City of Portland. During those years he wrote Forest Blood (Wellstone Books, 1998), the pre-eminent novel of the Northwest timber wars. His stand for responsible forest practices made him the target of an unsuccessful recall campaign financed by national timber corporations, and earned him the first nomination ever from the state of Oregon for the JFK Profile in Courage Award, which partly sparked his newest book, UNAFRAID: A Novel of the…

Biography source: official page

Issue Activity

Stored voting recordsIssue tags where available
Uncategorized votes
4 stored votes · 0 yea · 0 nay
Energy
1 stored vote · 0 yea · 0 nay
National Security
1 stored vote · 0 yea · 0 nay

Evidence & Sources

8/9 verified

Every item below is a stored record. 8 have a named source with a working link, 1 have partial sourcing.

  • Jeff Golden holds the office of State Senator
    profile identity· OpenStates
    Partial
  • Voted yes on HB 4177: Relating to public meetings; and prescribing an effective date.
    roll-call vote· Official roll-call record· 2026-03-06source
    Verified
  • Voted yes on SB 1515: Relating to wrongful convictions; and declaring an emergency.
    roll-call vote· Official roll-call record· 2026-03-06source
    Verified
  • Voted yes on SB 5702: Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency.
    roll-call vote· Official roll-call record· 2026-03-05source
    Verified
  • Voted yes on SB 1575: Relating to hospice licensure; and declaring an emergency.
    roll-call vote· Official roll-call record· 2026-02-25source
    Verified
  • Voted yes on SB 1515: Relating to wrongful convictions; and declaring an emergency.
    roll-call vote· Official roll-call record· 2026-02-24source
    Verified
  • Voted yes on SB 1585: Relating to matching grants for cities; and prescribing an effective date.
    roll-call vote· Official roll-call record· 2026-02-19source
    Verified
  • Co-sponsored: Relating to hospice licensure; and declaring an emergency.
    sponsored/co-sponsored bill· Congress.gov· 2026-02-02source
    Verified
  • Co-sponsored: Relating to matching grants for cities; and prescribing an effective date.
    sponsored/co-sponsored bill· Congress.gov· 2026-02-02source
    Verified
named source + link partial sourcing not yet sourced