Donald Gorman (born 1937 or 1938) is a former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He was first elected in 1992 to represent Deerfield, and was re-elected in 1994, serving four terms. Gorman was elected to the New Hampshire House as a member of the

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. In 2002 he was elected as an at-large member of the

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. He also worked as a

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Career

In 1993 Gorman introduced legislation that would permit banks to grant

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s on mortgages and to revise the terms of mortgages, to avoid homelessness as a result of foreclosure. In the same year he drafted a bill to repeal the state's business enterprise tax. In 1994 Gorman sponsored a resolution warning of the dissolution of the

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in the event of the national debt reaching $6 trillion; and sponsored legislation that would broaden the state of New Hampshire's definition of a political party to include all parties that had received three percent of the vote in an election for

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, the

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or the

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. In 1994 Gorman served as the chair of the

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. In

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he sought the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, which ultimately went to

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and 1996 nominee

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. In 2005, as the political director of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, Gorman led tours of the

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and trained members of the

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in the politics of New Hampshire.

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