page_title: 1960 United States Senate elections
section_title: Oregon
hierarchical_section_title: 1960 United States Senate elections / Oregon
caption_attribution_description: Senator Maurine B. Neuberger, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, in her office. EN: 07:50, August 1, 2005 . . Petaholmes (Talk | contribs | block) . . 441x640 (49,999 bytes) ({{fairuse}} This image is used under the rationale of fair use, the images is held by the Library of Congress, LC-U9-8293-20, the website states that there are no known restrictions on publication; it is used in a biographical article which describes the)
context_page_description: The 1960 United States Senate elections coincided with the election of John F. Kennedy as president. The Republicans gained one seat at the expense of the Democrats. The Democrats nonetheless retained a commanding lead in the Senate with 64 seats to 36. As Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson was elected Vice President, Mike Mansfield became the new Majority Leader.
context_section_description: First-term Democrat Richard L. Neuberger had been diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1958 that became terminal by 1960 — but was kept from the public. Neuberger remained at home in early 1960, reportedly battling the flu. Though still publicly seeking re-election, he told his campaign chair, attorney Jack Beatty, "Remember, there's always another Neuberger," referring to his wife. The comment, combined with Neuberger's reluctance to meet in public and weak voice on the phone, led Beatty to believe that Neuberger's condition was grave, a suspicion confirmed by the Senator's physician shortly before Neuberger died at Good Samaritan Hospital on March 9, 1960.
  Democratic Oregon Supreme Court judge Hall S. Lusk was appointed March 16, 1960 to continue the term, pending a special election in which he was not a candidate.
  Primaries were held May 20, 1960, in which Newberger's widow, Democrat Maurine B. Neuberger and the Republican former-Governor of Oregon Elmo Smith easily won nomination.
  Maurine Brown Neuberger was elected November 8, 1960 both to finish the term and to the next term.
caption: Senator Maurine B. Neuberger
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