Pat LaMarche
[3] Her father, Paul Henri LaMarche, is a doctor, and her mother, Genevieve (née Judge), 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.
LaMarche has taught Public Relations at Husson College's school of Communications and headed the Bangor chapter of the Children's Miracle Network.
Until the beginning of her vice-presidential campaign, LaMarche was employed by a country music radio station in Maine under the pseudonym of Genny Judge; however, this ended with her candidacy.
On September 5, 2004, LaMarche announced that she would be visiting and staying overnight in homeless and domestic violence shelters throughout the United States "to draw attention to those living on the edge of society."
Left Out in America,[4] LaMarche's book which chronicles her tour through American homeless shelters, was released on October 5, 2006, by Upsala Press.
Because her campaign received more than 5% of the total vote, she became the first woman in the history of the state of Maine to gain ballot access for a political party.
[12] In 2021, LaMarche spoke at the graduation ceremony for economically disadvantaged individuals who had to take a money management class to improve their housing and living assistance.
With a generous grant from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and in cooperation with thousands of volunteers, the #memorialblanket art installation took place in front of the most powerful building on the planet.
More information is available at www.memorialblanket.org The fourth #memorialblanket project is planned for Independence National Park forDecember 21, 2024 From 2007 until 2011, LaMarche authored a weekly syndicated column which can be read on line in the Bangor Daily News.
In November 2011, in order to raise matched funding on offer from Stephen King to provide winter heat for Mainers without, LaMarche announced her intention to spend a week living in a "Hobbit Hole" outdoors, notwithstanding the bracing Maine fall conditions.
LaMarche and fellow homeless advocate, Diane Nilan, traveled regularly speaking for agencies and universities about ever-growing despair among America's poorest residents.
[13] In 2020, Sunbury Press published LaMarche's non-fiction tome about poverty in the United States - a sequel to the book she wrote following her fun for Vice President.
