Keith Farnham

Early life Farnham was born in Piscataquis County, Maine and grew up in Bangor. According to an article in the Bangor Daily News, he graduated from Bangor High School in 1967, first working with other companies, then founding K&R Christopher in 1986. The district included portions of Elgin, Carpentersville, East Dundee and South Elgin. His House committee assignments included Aging, Appropriations (Human Services), Consumer Protection, Education Reform, State Government Administration, and Veterans' Affairs starting with the 96th General Assembly; Disability Services, Elementary & Secondary Education (and its Mandate Subcommittee), and Environment & Energy starting with the 97th General Assembly. He co-sponsored two bills to increase penalties for child pornography.

Farnham ran unopposed in the 2014 Democratic primary, winning on Tuesday, March 18, but resigned the following day, saying that he had been "battling serious health issues for a number of years".

Criminal case On March 19, federal agents also took Farnham's State House chamber laptop. On March 20, the search warrant was made public.

On April 28, 2014, Farnham was charged. After receiving a tip that a Yahoo! e-mail address was being used to trade child pornography, investigators found chat logs from June 2013 to January 2014, in which the user bragged in detail about a sexual encounter with a 6-year-old girl and said that "12 is about as old as i can handle." The account's use was traced back to Farnham's home Comcast Internet service. He surrendered to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on May 19, 2015, to begin serving his sentence.

In February 2016, Farnham was sued by two minors who claim they appear in child pornography found on his computer.

Death Keith Farnham died on June 18, 2017, at Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina. He was 69. Farnham was suffering from bladder cancer, lung disease, and pulmonary fibrosis.