Keith Farnham [SEP] position held
Keith Farnham
Keith Farnham (September 22, 1947 – June 18, 2017) was a Democratic former member of the Illinois House of Representatives who resigned from office and pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography in 2014.
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, but his 2008 campaign website stated that Farnham was active duty in the United States Naval Reserve from 1964
" and NORML advisory board member Hunter Thompson.
He attended law school at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., and became an intern at NORML. Farnham began working as an aide in July 1977 and made his mark lobbying against the US government's infamous Paraquat spraying campaign in Mexico.
In 1979 Keith Stroup resigned over the Peter Bourne controversy, which was a direct result of Bourne's continued support of the Paraquat program. Farnham became executive director shortly after, keeping the position until 1982 when he was replaced