STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR
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JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE HONORABLE H.
SAWIN MILLETT, JR. FOR HIS PUBLIC SERVICE TO THE
STATE
WHEREAS, the Honorable H. Sawin Millett, Jr., who represents House District 81, which
includes Norway, Sweden, Waterford, Albany Township, Greenwood, South Oxford,
Stoneham, Stow, Mason Township and Locke Mills, is retiring from his service to the Maine
State Legislature; and
WHEREAS, Representative Millett is currently serving his 9th term in Maine's House of
Representatives and has served as the Republican lead on both the Joint Standing Committee
on Appropriations and Financial Affairs and the Government Oversight Committee and has
also served on the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs; and
WHEREAS, Representative Millett was first elected to the Maine House of
Representatives in 1968, serving in the 104th and 105th Legislatures, and went on to serve
from the 121st Legislature to the 124th Legislature as well as from the 129th Legislature to the
131st Legislature; and
WHEREAS, his varied career includes service as a teacher, coach, principal, assistant
school superintendent, farmer, municipal officer and state commissioner, including service as
Commissioner of Education; Associate Commissioner of Mental Health, Mental Retardation
and Substance Abuse Services; and Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services.
He has served under Governors Longley, Brennan, McKernan, King and LePage; now,
therefore, be it
RESOLVED: That We, the Members of the One Hundred and Thirty-first Legislature now
assembled in the Second Regular Session, on behalf of the people we represent, take this
opportunity to recognize the Honorable H. Sawin Millett, Jr. for his decades of public service
to the State and extend to him our appreciation for his dedication, expertise and judgment and
congratulate him on his retirement from the Maine State Legislature.
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