Gerard P. "Gerry" Conley Jr. (born c. 1954) is an American lawyer and politician. He served in the Maine Legislature from 1988 to 1994. Conley was admitted to the Maine and Massachusetts bars and served as an assistant

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. He was then elected to the

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as a Democrat in 1986 and 1988 and the

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in 1990 and 1992.

Personal

Conley was born in

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. His father, Gerard Conley Sr., served in the

from 1968 to 1984 as well as on the

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. The younger Conley graduated from

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, earned a bachelor's degree from

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in New Hampshire and a J.D. degree from

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. In November 1991, the then-37 year old State Senator became engaged to 26 year old Rep.

Mary F. Cahill Mary F. Cahill (born 1966) is an American politician from Maine. Cahill, a Maine Democratic Party, Democrat from Mattawamkeag, Maine, Mattawamkeag, served in the Maine House of Representatives from June 1989 to 1992. She was elected in a special ...

of Mattawamkeag after meeting during the previous session.

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