Victoria P. Kornfield is an American schoolteacher and politician from

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from Bangor, Kornfield represented District 125 of the

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, which encompassed part of Bangor of

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. First elected in 2012, Kornfield was re-elected in 2014, 2016, and 2018. She lost a tightly contested primary for the Bangor-area Maine Senate district in July 2018 to

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. Kornfield worked as an English teacher in the

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