Mike Michaud

Michael Herman "Mike" Michaud ( born January 18, 1955 in Millinocket, Maine) is an American politician. Since 2003 he represents the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mike Michaud attended the High School in East Millinocket Schenk to 1973. He then became mill workers. From 1973 to 2002 he was based in Millinocket Great Northern Paper Company. Since the late 1970s he has been politically active. He became a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1980 and 1994 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Maine; 1994 to 2002 he was a member of the State Senate, which he was president in 2001 and 2002.

In the congressional elections of 2002, Michaud was in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he stepped on 3 January 2003 the successor of the governorship alternated John Baldacci. After three re- elections, he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. He is chairman of the Committee on Veterans Affairs and a member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Small Business. He is also in some sub-committees. Prior to the presidential election of 2008 he supported John Edwards.

East Millinocket is his place of residence.

As part of his campaign to become Governor of Maine, he met a whispering campaign of his opponents, who wanted to suggest he was gay, with a coming-out in the Bangor Daily News. The same-sex marriage was legally possible in Maine from December 29, 2012, but Michaud is still unmarried.