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- Charles_P._Pray abstract "Charles P. Pray (born August 15, 1945) is an American politician from Maine. Pray was born in the paper mill town of Millinocket, Maine in August 1945. He grew up in northern Piscataquis County, Maine attending a one room schoolhouse from 1954-1959. He attended Maine Central Institute, graduating from Stearns High School in his birthplace of Millinocket in 1964. He then attended Ricker College in Houlton. In 1966, he enlisted with the US Air Force and served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Finishing with the Air Force in 1970, he returned to Maine and enrolled at the University of Maine, from which he graduated in 1973 with a B.A. in political science. He was elected to the Maine Senate the following year to represent Piscataquis County and the northern area of Penobscot County, which was the largest legislative district east of the Mississippi River. He served in the Senate until a surprise defeat in 1992, including as President of the Maine Senate from 1984 to 1992. He is one of two individuals to serve four terms but is the only Senate President in Maine history to hold the office for 8 full years.During the 1992 election, Pray was defeated by Stephen Hall of Guilford, which the Bangor Daily News called a "stunning defeat".Following the end of his term in the Maine Senate, Pray held several positions at both the federal and state level. In the Bill Clinton administration, he served as Special Assistant/Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Congressional & Intergovernmental Affairs at the United States Department of Energy in a Senior Executive Administration Service position in Washington, D.C. In 2003, Governor John Baldacci appointed Pray to the position of State Nuclear Safety Advisor following work he was involved with while at the Department of Energy. Pray served as Director of Congressional Affairs for the National Nuclear Security Administration in 2010 in the Obama Administration. In 2011, Pray jumped into the debate on the proposed creation of a national park on land owned by Roxanne Quimby which was part of the Senate district Pray represented. He called for a comprehensive study of the effects of that a national park might have on not only tourism, but the entire economy of the region.In late 2012 and early 2013 Pray served as Town Manager for his home town of Millinocket, Maine. In July of 2013 he was nominated by the Penobscot County Commissioners to serve a four year term on the Maine Land Use Planning Commission, the State's planning commission for communities without a planning board and the vast unorganized territories of Maine. Pray remains active advising and outline strategies for elected and potential political candidates.".
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- Charles_P._Pray comment "Charles P. Pray (born August 15, 1945) is an American politician from Maine. Pray was born in the paper mill town of Millinocket, Maine in August 1945. He grew up in northern Piscataquis County, Maine attending a one room schoolhouse from 1954-1959. He attended Maine Central Institute, graduating from Stearns High School in his birthplace of Millinocket in 1964. He then attended Ricker College in Houlton.".
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