Kate Hogan (born January 15, 1957 in

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) is an

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from

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. A

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, she is a member of the

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representing the 3rd Middlesex district. She was first elected in 2008 and took office on January 7, 2009. The 3rd Middlesex district, which includes the towns of

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, Maynard and Stow, was represented for 24 years by

Patricia Walrath Patricia A. Walrath (born August 11, 1941, in Brainerd, Minnesota) is an American politician who represented the 3rd Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower hou ...

, who decided not to seek re-election in 2008. Five candidates ran for to succeed her: three Democrats, one Republican and one Independent. Prior to the primary, Walrath endorsed Hogan as her chosen successor. In the three-way primary election held on September 16, 2008, Hogan won 50 percent of the vote to the second-placed finisher's 40 percent. She went on to face two opponents in the general election on November 4, narrowly besting the Republican nominee, Hudson selectman Sonny Parente, by 10,156 votes to 9,281. She ran for re-election in 2010, facing no Republican opponent and taking 60% of the vote against an Independent. Her first action on being sworn-in on January 7, 2009, was to turn down a pay raise. She donated the $3,000 increase in legislative salaries to the local libraries in Bolton, Hudson, Maynard and Stow. On February 26, 2015 Speaker Robert DeLeo appointed Hogan as Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Health. Hogan, a native of

, is a graduate of the

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and works as vice president of Gnomon Inc., a Boston printing company. She has long been involved in local Democratic politics, having served as an officer of the Stow Democratic Town Committee, the Middlesex and Worcester Democrats and as co-chairman of the Maynard Democratic Town Committee from 1999 to 2006. She has also sat on several of Stow's town committees, including the Community Preservation Committee and the Council on Aging. Hogan, a lesbian, is married to Susan Vick. Her 2008 and 2010 campaigns won the support of the

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