John Eder (born January 18, 1969) is an American activist and politician from the state of Maine. Eder lives in Portland and is a member of the Maine Green Independent Party, the Maine affiliate of the national Green Party. He served in the Maine House of Representatives as the legislature's first member of the Green Party for two terms and was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2004. Until his defeat in 2006 Eder was one of only a handful of independent or third party state legislators in the country and was the highest-ranking elected Green official in the United States. Eder ran for Mayor of Portland, Maine in 2011.
Read more about John Eder: Biography, 2002 Election To Maine House of Representatives, Redistricting and Service in The House, 2006 Elections, Contributions, Post Legislature, 2011 Portland Mayoral Election
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