Don Gorman

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 as a member of the Libertarian Party.^[4] He also worked as a chimney sweep.^[1]

Career

In 1993 Gorman introduced legislation that would permit banks to grant grace periods on mortgages and to revise the terms of mortgages, in order to avoid homelessness as a result of foreclosure.^[5] In the same year he drafted a bill to repeal the state's business enterprise tax.^[6] 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;^[7] 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.^[8]

In 1994 Gorman served as the chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire.^[9] 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^[10] and trained members of the Free State Project in the politics of New Hampshire.^[11]

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