Sean Faircloth

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Sean Faircloth (23 May 1960 - )

A five-term legislator, elected by his colleagues as Majority Whip of the Maine House of Representatives, Faircloth is an attorney who led creation of the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor.

Faircloth is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, studied abroad in Ireland, served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and is a graduate of the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

Faircloth was named Legislator of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers, Maine Chapter; Legislator of the year by the Maine People's Alliance; Legislator of the Year for the American Academy of Pediatrics Maine Chapter.

Faircloth spearheaded the Deadbeat Dad child-support law in the mid-1990s which was used as a model by the Clinton administration. Maine Chapter of the National Organization for Women said Faircloth had "a major impact on national public policy" during his first term in the legislature.

As a Maine State Representative, he was called by the Los Angeles Times and The New Times the first legislator to take a comprehensive approach to the obesity question in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. He was prime sponsor of the bill creating Maine's commission on public health and obesity and has spoken around the nation regarding his new approach to the issue of obesity.

In June 2009, Faircloth became Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, a civil rights organization for citizens with non-theistic views which advocates in Washington, DC, and speaks around the United States on the separation of church and state and related issues.

A non-theist himself, Faircloth lives in Washington, D.C.