Mark Eves
| Mark Eves | |
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| 101st Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives | |
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In office December 5, 2012 – December 6, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Nutting |
| Succeeded by | Sara Gideon |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 16, 1977 Northern California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater |
University of Louisville Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary |
| Website | markevesforme.com |
Mark W. Eves is an American politician and family therapist from Maine. Eves is running for Governor of Maine in the 2018 election. In 2008, he was elected to the Maine House of Representatives from District 146, North Berwick. He was re-elected in 2010 and 2012 before being chosen as the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives for the 126th Maine Legislature (2012–2014). From 2010 to 2012, Eves was the ranking minority member of the Health and Human Services committee.
On June 30, 2014, the Talking Points Memo website claimed that some Maine adherents to the sovereign citizen movement had called for Eves and fellow Democratic Senate President Justin Alfond to be tried, convicted, and executed for treason during meetings with Governor Paul LePage in 2013. LePage denied that such discussions took place, even after learning that audio recordings exist of two men claiming such a discussion took place.
In the November 2014 general election, the Democrats lost control of the Maine Senate but retained a narrow majority in the Maine House of Representatives. A week later, Eves was re-nominated as House Speaker by his caucus.
Mark Eves was born in northern California to Arthur Eves, a former military chaplain during World War II and his mother, a school teacher. The Eves family moved to Oregon when he was 3 months old. He is the youngest of 7 children in his family. When he was 5, the Eves family moved again, this time to Italy so that his father could study to become a Montessori teacher. His family later moved to Arizona and later to Louisville, Kentucky, where Eves settled at age 11. He later attended the University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He met his wife, Laura while both were seeking master's degrees in marriage and family therapy at Louisville Presbyterian. The pair settled in North Berwick, Maine around 2002 and have three children.
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