Sharon Anglin Treat (born January 30, 1956) is an American politician and attorney from
Maine. A
Democrat
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, Treat served in the
Maine Legislature from 1990 until 2014. Treat represented
Hallowell, Maine in
Kennebec County
Kennebec County is a County (United States), county located in the South-central portion of the U.S. state of Maine. At the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 123,642. Its county seat is Augusta, Maine, Augusta, the state ...
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 ...
from 2006 until 2014. She was unable to seek re-election in 2014 due to term-limits.
During Treat's time in the Legislature, she was a well-known foe of the private health insurance industry and pharmaceutical industry.
Treat was first elected to the Maine House in 1990 and served until 1996. From 1996 to 2004, Treat served as a State Senator, including a term (2002–04) as the Senate Majority Leader. Unable to run for re-election to the State Senate in 2004, Treat returned to the House. She was replaced by
Scott Cowger (D-Hallowell).
Personal
Treat was born on January 30, 1956, in
Brattleboro, Vermont. She graduated with an A.B. from the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at
Princeton University in 1978 after completing a 191-page long senior thesis titled "Rising Costs and Constrained Resources: Agricultural Energy Use in the
United States."
She then graduated with a J.D. from
Georgetown University Law Center in 1982.
References
1956 births
Living people
Women state legislators in Maine
Lawyers from Brattleboro, Vermont
Politicians from Brattleboro, Vermont
People from Hallowell, Maine
Democratic Party members of the Maine House of Representatives
Majority leaders of the Maine Senate
Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Maine lawyers
American women lawyers
21st-century American legislators
21st-century American women politicians
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