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Once a high-ranking Democrat, Vallee opts against 11th term in House

By Matt Murphy

 |  State House News Service  

  April 12, 2012

State Representative James Vallee, a Franklin Democrat and a formerly high-ranking member of House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s leadership team, announced Wednesday that he will not seek an eleventh term in the Legislature. Vallee, 45, said that he had gathered all of the signatures necessary to run for reelection in November but ultimately decided to return to private life, his law practice, and his duties as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army National Guard.

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