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Susan Bernard (politician)

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ134303606 ↗
Source-derived summary

Susan Y. Bernard is an American politician from Maine. Bernard, a Republican, was elected to the Maine Senate in 2024 (District 1). She is a resident of Aroostook and previously in the state house. In the Legislature, Bernard represents a largely rural district covering the northernmost part of the state, made up of the majority of the County of Aroostook, a county known for its potato cultivation.

Prior to serving in electoral politics, Bernard worked as a television news director for 20 years for WAGM-TV 8 and a dean in Northern Maine Community College.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q134303606. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Susan Bernard (politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.