Scott Merrick is a Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

 member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives

New Hampshire House of Representatives

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, representing the 2nd Coos

Coos County, New Hampshire

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 District since his election in 2004. He resides in Lancaster

Lancaster, New Hampshire

Lancaster is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, USA, on the Connecticut River named after Lancaster, England. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 3,507, the second largest in the county after Berlin. It is the county seat of Coos County and gateway to the Great North Woods Region...

. While serving in the legislature, he also received his degree from Tufts University

Tufts University

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Merrick was named a rising star, as one of New Hampshire's "Forty under Forty" by the New Hampshire Union Leader

New Hampshire Union Leader

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in 2009. He has been mentioned as a potential candidate for Congress in 2010 for New Hampshire's second congressional district.