John Michael is an American former state legislator. Michael was born in Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston is a city in Androscoggin County in Maine, and the second-largest city in the state. The population was 41,592 at the 2010 census. It is one of two principal cities of and included within the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area and the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine...

 and represented a portion of that city in the Maine House of Representatives

Maine House of Representatives

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 from 1988-2002. In 2002

Maine gubernatorial election, 2002

The Maine gubernatorial election of 2002 took place on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Independent Governor Angus King was term limited, and unable to seek re-election...

, Michael ran as an unenrolled candidate for governor of Maine

Governor of Maine

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. He unsuccessfully sought clean elections

Clean elections

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funds and received 2.1% of the vote.

He also led several citizen initiatives, including two regarding term-limits for elected officials and the 2000 repeal of the "snack tax".