Kathleen Teahan
Encyclopedia
Kathleen M. Teahan is an American teacher and politician. She represented the 7th Plymouth District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from 1997–2007. She resides in Whitman.
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Teahan was a member of the Joint Committee on Health Care, and the Joint Committee on State Administration, since her first term.
She served on the Committee to Study Adoption, the Committee to Study End-of-Life Issues, the Special Commission on Oral Health, and the Special Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
She has been a member of the Girl Scout Council of Southeastern Massachusetts Board of Directors and the Whitman-Hanson Citizen Scholarship Foundation.
She has served as the Massachusetts Team Leader for the National Foundation for Women Legislators
' partnership with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
to bring national awareness of the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center
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Teahan was honored for her legislative efforts by the Congressional Coalition for Adoption Institute (2003 Congressional Angels in Adoption award), Health Care For All (2002 For the People, Against the Tide Award), and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (2003 Professional Recognition Award).
Massachusetts House of Representatives
The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms...
from 1997–2007. She resides in Whitman.
Biography
Kathleen M. Teahan was married and had four children. She taught school at the Gordon W. Mitchell Middle School in East Bridgewater and then at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School.Achievements and honors
During her tenure in office, Teahan was named Legislator of the Month by the Massachusetts Medical SocietyMassachusetts Medical Society
The Massachusetts Medical Society is the oldest continuously-operating state medical society in the United States. Incorporated on November 1, 1781, by an act of the Massachusetts General Court, the MMS is a non-profit organization that consists of approximately 22,000 physicians, medical students...
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Teahan was a member of the Joint Committee on Health Care, and the Joint Committee on State Administration, since her first term.
She served on the Committee to Study Adoption, the Committee to Study End-of-Life Issues, the Special Commission on Oral Health, and the Special Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
She has been a member of the Girl Scout Council of Southeastern Massachusetts Board of Directors and the Whitman-Hanson Citizen Scholarship Foundation.
She has served as the Massachusetts Team Leader for the National Foundation for Women Legislators
National Foundation for Women Legislators
National Foundation for Women Legislators is a 501 tax-exempt foundation established by the National Order of Women Legislators...
' partnership with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is the United States government’s second largest department, after the United States Department of Defense...
to bring national awareness of the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center
Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center
The United States Congress created the Veterans History Project in 2000. The authorizing legislation , sponsored by Representatives Ron Kind, Amo Houghton, and Steny Hoyer in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senators Max Cleland and Chuck Hagel in the U.S...
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Teahan was honored for her legislative efforts by the Congressional Coalition for Adoption Institute (2003 Congressional Angels in Adoption award), Health Care For All (2002 For the People, Against the Tide Award), and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (2003 Professional Recognition Award).