Marigene Valiquette

Marigene Valiquette
Member of the Ohio Senate from the 11th district
In office January 14, 1969-December 31, 1986
Preceded by	Frank W. King
Succeeded by	Linda J. Furney
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 79th district
In office January 3, 1963-January 14, 1969
Preceded by	None (First)
Succeeded by	Arthur Wilkowski
Personal details
Born	1924 (age 92–93)
Political party	Democratic

Marigene Gertrude Valiquette (born 1924) is a former member of the Ohio General Assembly. She served 24 consecutive years in the state legislature, first as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, beginning in 1963, and subsequently as a member of the Ohio State Senate, from 1969 until 1986.

For most of her 18 years as a state senator Valiquette was the only female senator in office. She became chair of the Judiciary Committee in 1971; later she chaired the Ethics Committee. During a period in the 1980s when the Democratic Party was in the majority, she was a ranking member on both the Finance and the Rules Committee.

In the early 1970s, as a state senator, Valiquette advocated strongly for Ohio's passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that aimed to guarantee equal rights for women; in February 1974 Ohio became the 33rd state to ratify the ERA.

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