Richard Evans is an American physician and politician from Maine.
He is a surgeon at Northern Light Mayo Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine.
He is African-American and became the first Democrat to represent the overwhelmingly white district in 30 years.
[1] He served as a member on the Joint Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services.
Growing up in a poor part of Houston, Texas, Evans earned a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and Chemistry from Howard University and a Doctorate of Medicine from Thomas Jefferson University's Jefferson Medical College.