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Eric Thornton Turkington1965 Lawrence High School Yearbook
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/ref> is an American lawyer and politician. He is a former Democratic member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the State legislature (United States), state legislature of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into ...
, who represented the Barnstable,
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and
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District from 1989-2009.


Career

On November 7, 2006, he won his race against Republican Jim Powell in the
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. He did not run for reelection in 2008, instead running for Barnstable Register of Probate. He served as a co-chair of the ''Rachel Carson'' sculpture committee.


Personal life

He is married to his wife Nancy and they have two children. They live in
Falmouth, Massachusetts Falmouth ( ) is a New England town, town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 32,517 at the 2020 census, making Falmouth the second-largest municipality on Cape Cod after Barnstable, Massachusetts, Barnstable. T ...
.


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Massachusetts House of Representatives profile
1947 births Living people People from Gouverneur, New York People from Falmouth, Massachusetts Politicians from Barnstable County, Massachusetts University of Pennsylvania alumni Boston College Law School alumni Massachusetts lawyers Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 21st-century members of the Massachusetts General Court 20th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court {{Massachusetts-MARepresentative-stub