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Michael "Mike" Folmer of Lebanon, Pennsylvania is a Pennsylvania State Senator who represents the 48th Senate district, which includes all of Lebanon County and portions of Dauphin and York Counties. He is a member of the Republican Party. ==Biography== Folmer was born and raised in the city of Lebanon. After graduating from Lebanon Senior High School in 1974, he attended Grace College (in Indiana) where he majored in History with a minor in Biblical Studies and Philosophy and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978. He returned to the Lebanon Valley where he resumed work with family business. Folmer married his wife, Sheila, and witnessed the birth of his first child while he completed coursework at Grace College. In 1986, he was elected to Lebanon City Council as the Democrat candidate with the highest plurality of votes in a municipal election. While on City Council Folmer served as the Director of Public Safety, which included managing and enforcing the municipal codes. He trained with the city’s volunteer firemen (1986 certification) and completed a course of fire service cost efficiency hosted by the state Department of Community Affairs (1987 certification). Fulfilling a term limits pledge, he left public service and held various jobs in the private sector. Folmer is a member and Sunday school teacher at the Church of the Servant (Presbyterian Church in America). In 2005, Mike and other local concerned citizens organized the Constitutional Organization Of Lebanon (COOL) to help re-introduce to members and the community at large the fundamental principles which led to the creation of the US Constitution. In 2013, Folmer became the majority chair for the Pennsylvania Senate committee on education.〔(Pennsylvania State Senate, Senate Committee on Education ), Date accessed 3/28/13]〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Folmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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