Ron Cease

{{Short description|American politician|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name =Ron Cease

| image=

| image_size=160px

| caption =

| state = Oregon

| state_house = Oregon

| district = 19th

| term_start =1985

| term_end = 1991

| predecessor =

| successor = Avel Gordly

| constituency =

| state2 = Oregon

| state_senate2 =Oregon

| district2 =10th

| term_start2 =1991

| term_end2=1997

| predecessor2 = Jane Cease

| successor2 = Avel Gordly

| party = Democratic

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1931|3|3}}

| birth_place =Britton, South Dakota

| death_date=

| death_place =

| profession =Professor

| residence =Portland, Oregon

| relations=

| alma_mater=

| spouse =Jane Cease

| religion =

| children=

| website =

| partner=

|branch=

|serviceyears=

|rank=

|battles=

|allegiance=

}}

Ronald Clayton Cease (born March 3, 1931), is an American politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon State Senate.{{Cite web |url=https://multco.us/file/11966/download |title=Multnomah County |access-date=2014-10-08 |archive-date=2014-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016045837/https://multco.us/file/11966/download |url-status=dead }}

Cease was born in Britton, South Dakota in 1931 and attended the Vanport Extension Center (later Portland State University). He was a professor of Public Administration and Political Science at Portland State University from 1966 to 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.pdx.edu/hatfieldschool/a-lifetime-of-public-service|title=Portland State College of Urban & Public Affairs: Hatfield School of Government - A Lifetime of Public Service|publisher=|accessdate=9 October 2014}} From 2001 to 2008, he sat on the Oregon Department of Forestry's (ODF) Committee for Family Forestlands.{{cite web|url=http://www.oregon.gov/odf/pages/news/nr5807.aspx|title=Oregon Department of Forestry Newsroom|publisher=|accessdate=9 October 2014}} His wife, Jane Cease, also was an Oregon state legislator, serving stints in the State House of Representatives and the State Senate.{{cite web|url=https://library.state.or.us/repository/2011/201101131436324/index.pdf|title=Alphabetical List of Oregon's representatives|website=state.or.us|access-date=11 March 2024}}