Shirley Gold

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Shirley Gold

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|office1 = Member of the Oregon State Senate from the 7th district

|term_start1 = January 9, 1989

|term_end1 = January 13, 1997

|predecessor1 = Rod Monroe

|successor1 = Kate Brown

|office2 = Member of the Oregon House of Representatives from the 14th district

|term_start2 = January 10, 1983

|term_end2 = January 9, 1989

|predecessor2 = Howard Cherry

|successor2 = Bev Stein

|office3 = Member of the Oregon House of Representatives from the 12th district

|term_start3 = January 12, 1981

|term_end3 = January 10, 1983

|predecessor3 = Rod Monroe

|successor3 = Dick Springer

|birth_name =

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|10|2}}

|birth_place = New York City, New York

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|2|27|1925|10|2}}

|death_place = Portland, Oregon

|party = Democratic

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Shirley Gold (October 2, 1925 – February 27, 1998) was an American politician who served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. She did not run for re-election in 1988, but instead ran for the Oregon State Senate, where she would serve from 1989 to 1997.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/199761951/ |title=Statesman Journal from Salem, Oregon on January 20, 1987 · Page 17 |publisher=Newspapers.com |date=1987-01-20 |accessdate=2018-07-11}} She was succeeded in the House by fellow Democrat Bev Stein.

In 1995, Gold was described as a "longtime advocate of child care" as the chair of the Senate Revenue Committee that sponsored two bills that intended to improve childcare workers' pay.{{Cite magazine|date=March 1995|title=Legislators Who Stand Above The Crowd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5CmroQQZxTsC&pg=PA30|magazine=Working Mother|page=30|access-date=2019-08-30}}

She did not run for re-election to the Senate in 1996, and was succeeded by fellow Democrat Kate Brown, who would later become Secretary of State and then Governor of Oregon.

Gold died of pancreatic cancer on February 27, 1998, in Portland, Oregon at age 72.{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/august1998/shirley-diamondstein-gold-mat-1962.html |title=Shirley Diamondstein Gold MAT 1962 |publisher=Reed.edu |accessdate=2018-07-11}}