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Donald Gorman (born 1937 or 1938)[1] is a former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He was first elected in 1992 to represent Deerfield and was re-elected in 1994,[2] serving four terms.[3] Gorman was elected to the New Hampshire House as a member of the Libertarian Party.[4] In 2002 he was elected as an at-large member of the Libertarian National Committee.[5] He also worked as a chimney sweep.[1]
In 1993 Gorman introduced legislation that would permit banks to grant grace periods on mortgages and to revise the terms of mortgages, to avoid homelessness as a result of foreclosure.[6] In the same year, he drafted a bill to repeal the state's business enterprise tax.[7] In 1994 Gorman sponsored a resolution warning of the dissolution of the United States federal government in the event of the national debt reaching $6 trillion;[8] and sponsored legislation that would broaden the state of New Hampshire's definition of a political party to include all parties that had received three percent of the vote in an election for governor, the U.S. Congress or the Executive Council of New Hampshire.[9]
In 1994 Gorman served as the chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire.[10] In 2000 he sought the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, which ultimately went to investment banker and 1996 nominee Harry Browne.[3] In 2005, as the political director of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, Gorman led tours of the New Hampshire State House[11] and trained members of the Free State Project in the politics of New Hampshire.[12]
Gorman was elected to the Deerfield School Board in 2002.[13]
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