Pat LaMarche

Patricia Helen Pat LaMarche is an American political figure and activist with the Green Party of the United States she was the partys vicepresidential candidate in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, with David Cobb as its presidential candidate, and was one of seven cochairs of the partys national committee, the Green Party of the United States, elected to that position on July 24, 2005.

LaMarche was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the fourth of five children. She grew up in a public housing project in that city. Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from southern Ireland. Her father, Paul Henri LaMarche, is a doctor, and her mother, Genevieve , was at that time a housewife but later became an auditor employed by the state of Maine. When the family moved to Bangor, Maine, in the 1970s, LaMarche enrolled at John Bapst Memorial High School where she graduated near the top of her class. She pursued her education with four years at Boston College.

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