Kathleen "Kathy" D. Chase is an American business owner and politician from
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...
who is a
Republican
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Political ideology
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** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
who served in the
Maine House of Representatives
The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The voting members represent an equal number of districts across the state and are elected via p ...
, representing the 147th district, which covered a portion of her hometown of
Wells
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* Wells, Somerset, a cathedral city in Somerset, England
* Well, an excavation or structure created in the ground
* Wells (name)
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.
Chase served from 2006 to 2014 in the Maine House of Representatives. She was unable to seek re-election in 2014 due to term-limits.
Chase grew up in Wells and graduated from
Wells High School
Wells High School is a public school located in Wells, Maine, United States. It has an enrollment of 450 students in grades 9 through 12. The school primarily serves students from Wells, as well as a small number of students from Ogunquit, Maine ...
in 1969.
She received an
associate's degree
An associate degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years. It is a level of qualification above a high school diploma, GED, or matriculation, and below a bachelor's degree.
The fi ...
in
liberal arts
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from the
University of Southern Maine
The University of Southern Maine (USM) is a public university with campuses in Portland, Gorham and Lewiston in the U.S. state of Maine. It is the southernmost of the University of Maine System. It was founded as two separate state universitie ...
in 1991.
[ She was the ]tax assessor
Tax assessment, or assessment, is the job of determining the value, and sometimes determining the use, of property, usually to calculate a property tax. This is usually done by an office called the assessor or tax assessor.
Governments need to ...
for the town of Wells from 1988 to 2006.Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
immigration law known as SB 1070
The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and commonly referred to as Arizona SB 1070) is a 2010 legislative Act in the U.S. state of Arizona that was the broadest and strictest an ...
.
References
External links
Official legislative web site
Official campaign web site
Year of birth missing (living people)
Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives
Living people
People from Wells, Maine
University of Southern Maine alumni
Women state legislators in Maine
Businesspeople from Maine
21st-century American women
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