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Cassandra Levesque (born c. 1999) is an American politician in the state of New Hampshire. She has been a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives since 2018, representing the Strafford 4 district. Levesque has contributed to efforts to eliminate child marriage in New Hampshire.

Early life and activism
Levesque became a Girl Scout when she was five years old. She began researching child marriage as a project for the program's Gold Award. Levesque worked with her state Representative, Jackie Cilley, to draft a bill that would eliminate provisions allowing minors to marry with judicial and parental consent. The state House of Representatives voted against the bill's passage. Despite the bill's failure, other legislation sponsored by Cilley passed which raised the minimum age for marriage to 16.

Levesque graduated from high school, and studied photography at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, but decided against a career in the field. When both incumbents from the Strafford 4 district, Cilley and Len Turcotte, decided to retire, local Democrats convinced Levesque to run in the 2018 election.

Electoral politics

Levesque was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in the 2018 elections.

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Cassandra Levesque (born c.1999) is an American politician in the state of New Hampshire. She is a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, elected as a Democrat from the Strafford 4 district in 2018. She ran for election after an initially unsuccessful attempt to eliminate child marriage in New Hampshire.

Levesque attended Dover High School in Dover, New Hampshire. She used her Girl Scout Gold Award project to work on eliminating child marriage in her home state. She will be the youngest member of the legislature.

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