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State Representative Mark Falzone (D-Saugus) is currently serving his fifth term from the 9th Essex District. The district includes portions of Lynn, Lynnfield, Saugus, and Wakefield. He serves on the Joint Committee on Election Laws, as well as the Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs, and the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development. In addition, Rep. Falzone was appointed to the House Special Committee on Automation and the Massachusetts Information Technology Commission.

Mark received a Masters of Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was the recipient of a Jerome Rappaport Fellowship. He has a B.A. in Political Science and Communication from Boston College, and is a graduate of Saugus High School.

Mark has owned and run a computer consulting business since 1996. As a computer consultant, he installs, repairs, and troubleshoots networks. Mark is certified by the Massachusetts Department of Education to teach information technology courses, including Advanced Network Operating Systems.

Mark has been a political activist for quite some time. He was the Northeast Regional Coordinator for the 1998 Democratic State Coordinated Campaign. He also was the State President of the College Democrats of Massachusetts while attending Boston College. At age eighteen he was elected to his local Representative Town Meeting.

Mark is involved with several local charities, including the Saugus River Watershed Council, Saugus Action Volunteers for the Environment (SAVE), Friends of Breakheart Reservation, Sons of Italy #2692, the Saugus Democratic Education Fund, and the Friends of Lake Quannapowitt.

State Representative Mark Falzone was chosen to enter the 2002 class of 35 Flemming Fellows selected from more than 4,000 eligible state legislators across the nation whom the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) identified as emerging leaders. The Flemming Fellows Leadership Institute trains policymakers to think and lead and to solve problems by working across lines of party, race, class, and gender to achieve consensus. The following year he was selected for a prestigious Toll Fellowship by the Council of State Government in recognition of his leadership abilities, legislative accomplishments, and dedication to public life and civic service.