Tom Marsh is a former member of the Oregon House of Representatives

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, representing portions of Washington County

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, Oregon

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, United States. He served two terms, from January 1975 through 1978.

A Democrat

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, Marsh was first elected to the Oregon Legislature

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 in 1974. Prior to that, he had been president of the Beaverton Education Association. He also was a teacher of history and government at Sunset High School, north of Beaverton

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. He continued teaching when the Legislature was not in session. In 1975, Governor

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 Robert W. Straub

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 appointed Marsh to a two-year term on the Governor's Committee on Aging.

Tom Marsh was reelected to the House in 1976, but in 1978 decided not to run for a third term. He was succeeded by Nancy Ryles.

The House district represented by Marsh was numbered District 5 at the time (and since 1971), and remained so under Ryles, but became District 7 in 1982, as a result of a reapportionment plan passed by the Oregon Legislature in 1981, based on data from the 1980 U.S. Census.

Marsh later served on the Washington County Council on Aging.