RUMFORD – Veteran legislator Rob Cameron is vying for state Senate District 14 seat in November.

Cameron, a Republican, grew up on the family dairy farm in South Rumford, where he and his wife, Louanne, raised four children.

He was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1992, serving four times before leaving due to the term limit law.

He served on the Transportation, Natural Resources, Utilities and Energy, and Business and Economic Development committees.

He championed the Maine State Nurses Association’s bid to allow nurse practitioners to practice independent of a physician supervisor as long as it is within the scope of their training. He was also instrumental in the passage of a bill to allow optometrists to treat glaucoma patients.

Cameron has worked at the Boise Cascade Paper Mill in Rumford since 1979 and has held several positions over his 25-year career. He is currently a maintenance supervisor over buildings and grounds and the supervisor/planner for R9 pulp dryer.

He attended Rumford schools and graduated from Stephens High School in 1966. He attended the University of Maine at Orono and received an associate degree in agriculture in 1968.

District 14 includes the towns of Bethel, Rumford, Stow, Lovell, Sweden, Waterford, North and South Oxford Township, Greenwood, West Paris, Hebron, Buckfield, Hartford, Sumner, Woodstock, Gilead, Newry, Hanover, Milton Township, Peru, Canton, Jay, Dixfield, Mexico, Roxbury, Andover, Byron, Upton, Magalloway Plantation, Stoneham and Lincoln Plantation.