Matthew Choate (born May 6, 1971) was a legislator in the
Vermont Senate
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. He was elected in 2008. He was one of two senators in the
Caledonia Vermont Senate District, 2002–2012. He resides in
St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He is a
Democrat
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.
Biography
Choate was born in
St. Johnsbury, Vermont May 6, 1971. He was the eldest son of Jonathan and Wanda Rexford Choate.
He graduated from the
University of Vermont
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with a
Bachelor of Science
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in
biochemistry
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in 1992 and a bachelor of science in nursing in 1997. He was a nurse manager,
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Emergency Clinical Coordinator,
Central Vermont Hospital Center. He was a nurse at the Vermont Poison Center,
Fletcher Allen Health Care
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.
He currently manages the pediatric
ICU at Dartmouth Hitchcock.
See also
*
Members of the Vermont Senate, 2009-2010 session
Footnotes
External links
Vermont Senate Biographies
Vermont state senators
1942 births
Living people
University of Vermont alumni
People from St. Johnsbury, Vermont
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