Donald Ardell is an American politician who has 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 ...

since December 7, 2022. He represents Maine's 6th House district. Before becoming a politician, he was a federal agent and

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Electoral history

He was elected on November 8, 2022, in the

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. He assumed office on December 7, 2022.

Biography

Ardell earned a

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in fine arts and criminology from the

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in 1995.

References

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