Teresea M. "Terry" Hayes (born May 5, 1958) is an American politician from

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who served as the Maine State Treasurer and a candidate for Governor of Maine in

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. A political independent, Hayes represented part of

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, including her residence in Buckfield, Maine, as a

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from 2006 to 2014. She was unable to seek re-election to the

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in 2014 due to term-limits. Following Hayes' 2010 re-election, she was named Assistant Minority Leader of the House Democrats. In November 2012, Hayes won a closely contested election by just 42 votes over her Republican opponent. Hayes earned a B.A. in government from

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in 1980. From 1991 to 2004, Hayes served on the

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(Buckfield, Hartford, Sumner) School Board, including a stint as chair. She earned her MBA from Thomas College in Waterville, Maine in May 2014. In

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, Hayes endorsed unenrolled candidate for governor

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. On December 3, 2014, Hayes was nominated by

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to be

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of Maine, and she defeated the Democratic incumbent,

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due to the support of Republicans and a minority of Democrats. She is the first independent to hold the office. Hayes has said one of her goals as treasurer is to create an online tool to allow the public to view and track how state bond money is spent, for greater transparency. Hayes announced on April 14, 2017, that she has filed to run for Governor of Maine in

, stating she would seek to create a "collaborative" policy arena as opposed to what she sees as the current "conflict-centered" one. If elected, she would have been the first state treasurer to win the governor's office since 1889 when Edwin C. Burleigh was governor. She filed as a taxpayer-funded "Clean Elections" candidate. Hayes finished third in the gubernatorial race, behind Democrat

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and Republican Shawn Moody. She received 37,268 votes, or 5.9%, in what was the worst showing for a major independent Maine gubernatorial candidate since John Michael's 2.1% in

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. After the election, the new Democratic-controlled Maine Legislature did not re-elect Hayes, instead electing Democrat

Henry Beck Henry E. Murphy Beck, (also called Henry E. M. Beck, born June 6, 1986) is an American people, American lawyer and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician from Waterville, Maine, Waterville, Maine. He has served as Maine State Tr ...

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