About Marc Draisen
Born 1956. Marc Draisen is an American politician and urban planner.
Marc D. Draisen (born December 22, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American Urban planner and politician who represented the 11th Suffolk district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. He was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1994, but lost in the Democratic primary to Bob Massie.
Draisen is currently the executive director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. He is also the former chairman of Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections and the former president and executive director of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations. He has a wife Sara Barcan, one son, Samuel Draisen, and one daughter Katie Draisen.
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politician in Massachusetts, US
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Marc Draisen was born on 22 December 1956 in Boston.
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