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Timothy Theriault

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ114211878 ↗
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Timothy Theriault is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member for the 79th district of the Maine House of Representatives.

In 2014, Theriault was elected to represent the 79th district in the Maine House of Representatives. He succeeded Sharon Treat. Theriault assumed his office on December 3, 2014.

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“Timothy Theriault” enters the record as american politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Timothy, Theriault and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Timothy, Theriault and American.
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“Timothy Theriault” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Timothy, Theriault and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q114211878. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Timothy Theriault” 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.