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Senator Joseph
C. Brannigan is currently serving his fifth term in the
Maine Senate representing Senate District 9. District
9 includes part of Westbrook and part of Portland. Senator
Brannigan has previously served seven terms in the Maine
House of Representatives and has chaired the Business
and Commerce Committee, Judiciary Committee, Marine Resources
Committee, Housing and Economic Development Committee,
Appropriation and Financial Affairs Committee and Transportation
Committee. He is currently the chair of the Health and
Human Services Committee and a member of the State and
Local Government Committee.
Senator Brannigan attended Georgetown University School
of Foreign Service in Washington DC in 1955 following
a tour with the United States Navy from 1951-1955. Following
his undergraduate education Senator Brannigan attended
St. John Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts and became
an Ordained Maine Diocesan Priest serving in both South
Portland and Fairfield and as a chaplain at the University
of Southern Maine. He then continued on to complete his
Masters in Counseling Education at the University of
Southern Maine and subsequently became a licensed social
worker.
Senator Brannigan is very committed to his community.
He is involved in the City of Portland and United Way’s
Emergency Shelter Assessment Committee, the Legislative
Mental Health Committee of Maine Association of Mental
Health Services, Cumberland Service Network, and has
been a trustee of The Park Danforth and the chair of
the State Correction Facilities Improvement Advisory
Committee.
Currently Senator Brannigan is the Executive Director
of Shalom House, Inc. – a position he has proudly
held for the past 33 years. In that time, Shalom House,
Inc. has grown from a halfway house with 15 beds to multiple
buildings and services serving more than 600 people annually.
The model he has created for mental health housing and
services for adults is on the cutting edge of psychosocial
rehabilitation.
Legislative Session Service:
House 109, 110, 111, 112, 120, 121, 122
Senate 113, 114, 115, 116, 123
Family:
Claire, spouse, 1 Child
Occupation:
Mental Health Executive
Shalom House, Inc.
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