COMMUNITY PROFILE:
This district serves the Aroostook County communities of Amity, Bancroft Township, Blaine, Bridgewater, Central Aroostook UT, Crystal, Dyer Brook, Easton, Glenwood Plantation, Hammond, Haynesville, Hersey, Hodgdon, Houlton, Island Falls, Linneus, Littleton, Ludlow, Macwahoc Plantation, Mars Hill, Merrill, Monticello, Moro Plantation, New Limerick, Oakfield, Orient, Presque Isle, Reed Plantation, Sherman, Smyrna, South Aroostook UT, Westfield and Weston.
This district also serves the Penobscot County communities of Chester, Drew Plantation, East Millinocket, Kingman Township, Mattawamkeag, Maxfield, Medway, Millinocket, Mount Chase, North Penobscot UT, Patten, Seboeis Plantation, Stacyville and Woodville.
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There are 21,347 actively registered voters within this district:
CURRENT REPRESENTATIVE:
Harold “Trey” Stewart III, a Republican from Presque Isle. Sen. Stewart is the senate minority leader and has recently served in the state legislature since being elected in November 2020. He also served in the House from 2017-2020.
Sen. Stewart currently serves as an intelligence officer for the US Navy Reserve. Sen. Stewart is the youngest member of the state senate, and was the youngest member of the Legislature when he served in the House. Prior to his time in the Legislature, he worked in the Office of Congressman Bruce Poliquin and for the Aroostook Partnership and Northern Maine Development Commission. He also holds a real estate license, serving clients in Aroostook County. In addition to his career and legislative service, Sen. Stewart is also a member of the Presque Isle Rotary Club, the Central Aroostook Chamber of Commerce and Trinity Masonic Lodge #130. He is also a board member for the Aroostook County Action Program; the Northern Maine Community College Foundation; University of Maine at Presque Isle’s visitors board; American Legislative Exchange Council; and previously served on the National Conference of State Legislatures Executive Board. He has also served as a Maine commissioner for the Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and previously served as a volunteer for the Presque Isle Fire Department for five years.
Sen. Stewart serves on the legislative council, which is responsible for the overall management of the entire Legislature. The Council is responsible for providing professional, nonpartisan staff support services to the Legislature and its officers, members, committees and commissions. These services include legislative research, bill drafting; policy, legal and fiscal analysis; fiscal note preparation; committee staffing; computer support services; public information; library and reference services and support; and general administrative services. The Legislative Council’s staff is organized into the nonpartisan offices that operate under the direction of the Council’s Executive Director. Other responsibilities delegated by the Legislature to the Council include preparing legislative budget requests and overseeing the legislative budget; establishing salary and benefit schedules for all legislative employees, except as otherwise provided by law; approval of employment practices; planning and oversight of projects designed to improve the organization, operation and physical facilities of the Legislature; and assignment of work to legislative committees when the Legislature is not in session. The Council also has responsibility for screening and approving requests to introduce legislation after cloture (after deadline bills) in any legislative session and exercises this same role for all bill requests prior to their introduction in the second regular session and all special sessions.
Information for this lawmaker’s biography has been compiled from numerous public sources, including pages maintained by political parties, individual lawmakers and the Maine Legislature.
Contact this lawmaker: Trey.Stewart@Legislature.maine.gov or 207-227-0569
ELECTIONS 2024:
This seat is on the ballot during the 2024 election cycle. Running for the seat are Trey Stewart (R) and Matthew Rush (D).
View contributions to each candidate, campaign expenditures and campaign filings on the Maine Ethics Commission website.
On Election Night in November, this section will feature live results for this race:
LEGISLATIVE WORK:
The following chart is a compilation of legislation sponsored by Sen. Stewart during the 131st Legislature. To learn more about each legislation and see where it is in the legislative process, click on the bill ID in the first column. View each vote cast by Sen. Stewart.
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