Edward Polewarczyk is an American politician who served as a member of 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 ...
. He represented Maine's 47th House district.
Electoral history
He was elected on November 8, 2022, in the
2022 Maine House of Representatives election
The 2022 Maine House of Representatives elections took place on November 8, 2022, alongside the biennial 2022 United States elections, United States elections. Maine voters elected members of the Maine House of Representatives via instant-ru ...
. He assumed office on December 7, 2022. He lost his reelection bid on November 5, 2024, in the
2024 Maine House of Representatives election
The 2024 Maine House of Representatives election was held on November 5, 2024, alongside the 2024 United States elections.
Retirements
Thirty incumbents did not seek re-election.
Democrats
*District 9: Anne C. Perry was term-limited.
*Distr ...
.
Biography
Polewarczyk served in the
United States Army
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. He earned a
Bachelor of Science
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...
in electrical engineering in 1963 and a
Master of Business Administration
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in 1973. He worked on the
Space Shuttle program
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, being a member of the team that brought the first person to the moon. He is a
Christian
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. He is also a member of the school board of St. John's Catholic School.
References
Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives
Living people
Politicians from Wiscasset, Maine
20th-century United States Army personnel
Christians from Maine
21st-century members of the Maine Legislature
1942 births
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