Frank J. Murray (priest)
Rev. Frank J. Murray (born March 12, 1949) is an American Catholic priest and former Maine Democratic Party, Democratic Maine House of Representatives, state representative from Maine. Early life Murray was born and grew up on Maple Street in Bangor, Maine to Robert Emmett and Laura Murray. Both of his grandfathers were named Frank J. He has a younger brother, Robert Murray (Maine politician), Robert Emmett, Jr., and an older sister, Cynthia, who married Severin Beliveau. His great uncle was Edward P. Murray. Murray attended St. John's School and then John Bapst Memorial High School. He is of French, English, and Irish descent. His father was active in Democratic politics. Career Maine House Murray attended the University of Maine at Orono where he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics. During his junior and senior years in 1969 and 1970, when he was 20 years old, he ran for a seat in the Maine House of Representatives. When elected, Murray was the youngest member of the H ...
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Maine Democratic Party
The Maine Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Maine. After the Civil War, Democrats were a minor player in a political scene dominated by the Republican Party. However, during the 1950s, Edmund Muskie led an expansive political insurgency culminating in his election as Governor of Maine and successive Democratic elections to both state and national offices. From 2012 to 2019, despite having a Republican governor in Paul LePage, the party remained strong, holding key offices in the state government and the U.S. Congress and maintaining a majority in the Maine House of Representatives for six of LePage's eight years in office. It is currently the state's favored party, controlling both houses of the state legislature, governorship, and both of Maine's U.S. House seats. One of Maine's U.S. Senate seats is currently held by Angus King, an Independent whom caucuses with the Democrats. Current Democratic officeholders Members of Congress U. ...
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