When is your birthday?
March 10, 1969.

What is your favorite place in Maine?
The Saddleback region, getting outside with my family.

What do you order at a bar?
A Lunch, or the best thing on tap.

What is your favorite book?
“The Gentleman from Moscow” by Amor Towles.

What is your favorite film?
“The Princess Bride.” (“Have fun storming the castle.”)

Which talent would you most like to have?
Playing the guitar.

What is your most overused word or phrase?
“Shred it.” (So much waste and fraud to shred!)

What is your greatest extravagance?
Flying my plane around Maine so I can meet voters in every part of Maine.

What is your most treasured possession?
My collection of letters from my children over the years.

Who are your heroes?
My wife, Fay, and my uncle, George HW.

When is your birthday?
Aug. 23, 1960.

Where is your residence?
Beautiful Leeds, Maine, where I live in a simple home on Androscoggin Lake, not far from where I grew up in Wayne.

What is your favorite place in Maine?
When I’m not in Leeds, my favorite spot is the Moosehead Lake region.

What do you order at a bar?
Nothing hits the spot quite like a tall, dark Guinness.

What is your favorite book?
“Endurance” by Alfred Lansing, the remarkable story of Ernest Shackleton’s survival against impossible odds.

What is your favorite film?
“Chariots of Fire,” with its unmatched inspiration in Eric Liddell’s story and its reminder of purpose and conviction.

What talent would you most like to have that you don’t have?
I wish I had my mother’s extraordinary talent of painting and teaching watercolors.

What is your most overused word or phrase?
“No worries,” which I probably use even more than I realize.

What is your greatest extravagance?
I hate to admit it, but I just can’t resist buying old books — it’s a real weakness.

What is your most treasured possession?
I know it sounds corny, but my collection of family photos is my greatest material treasure.

Who are your real-life heroes?
The World War II generation I grew up around, as well my mother, whose quiet strength and character shaped who I am.

When is your birthday?
April 8, 1956.

What is your favorite place in Maine?
In the summer, Bryant Pond. In the winter, Wiscasset.

What do you order at a bar?
If I drink, which is extremely rare, I order an old fashioned.

What is your favorite book?
“Call of the Wild” by Jack London.

What is your favorite film?
It’s “My Cousin Vinny” or “Glengarry Glen Ross.”

What is your most overused word or phrase?
“Numbers don’t lie, people do …”

What is your greatest extravagance?
Buying a nice vehicle to drive; I drive around Maine all the time.

What is your most treasured possession?
My guitar.

Who are your heroes?
Anyone who has stood up in the past, or is willing to stand up today, for our country, our rights and our freedom.

When is your birthday?
June 19, 1985.

What is your favorite place in Maine?
My back porch.

What do you order at a bar?
Any type of red ale.

What is your favorite book?
Anything “off the beaten path” in history. A recent good read was “The Wager” by David Grann.

What is your favorite film?
“Woman in Gold” with Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren.

Which talent would you most like to have?
To paint.

What is your most overused word or phrase?
“Absolutely ridiculous.”

What is your greatest extravagance?
Travel.

What is your most treasured possession?
Family pictures.

Who is your hero?
John Adams.

When is your birthday?
Feb. 9, 1988.

What is your favorite place in Maine?
The shadow of Mt. Katahdin around Patten, Maine, and the northern entrance to Baxter State Park. It’s home for me and still the place that grounds me the most.

What do you order at a bar?
Lemonade. I made a lot of friends in college by being the designated driver; I don’t drink alcohol.

What is your favorite book?
“The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel James Brown.

What is your favorite film?
“Remember the Titans.” I’m also a big fan of the soundtrack.

Which talent would you most like to have?
A 40-inch vertical so I could have turned my love of basketball into a professional career.

What is your most overused word or phrase?
“I’m the son of a third-generation logger and a second-generation lunch lady.”

What is your greatest extravagance?
Probably being able to go out for ice cream whenever I want without worrying about it.

What is your most treasured possession?
My family.

Who are your heroes?
My parents. They taught me work ethic, humility, sacrifice and how to keep going when things are hard.

When is your birthday?
Nov. 3, 1969.

What is your favorite place in Maine?
Anywhere with the ocean, a lake or the mountains.

What do you order at a bar?
I don’t drink a lot but a Ketel martini, shaken, two olives.

What is your favorite book?
“Thick Face Black Heart,” by Chin-Ning Chu.

What is your favorite film?
“Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

Which talent would you most like to have?
“To be able to speak any language in the world.”

What is your most overused word or phrase?
“Make good decisions.” “Think big.” “Never give up.”

What is your greatest extravagance?
I am a pretty regimented guy, being from the fitness, world so an extravagance for me is pretty simple. Aside from any family time, I really love to take about 1.5 hours each weekend morning to have coffee and read about a dozen publications.

What is your most treasured possession?
My family.

Who are your heroes?
I don’t have one specific person that comes to mind because there are so many different ways to be a hero, in my mind. But I gravitate towards anyone who truly puts others above themselves, from the smallest gesture to the ultimate sacrifice. And, of course my mom, dad and my wife.

When is your birthday?
March 23, 1975.

What is your favorite place in Maine?
Monhegan.

What do you order at a bar?
A mocktail.

What is your favorite book?
“Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler. Also, my pocket Constitution.

What is your favorite film?
“When Harry Met Sally.”

Which talent would you most like to have?
To sing.

What is your most overused word or phrase?
“I feel strongly,” although I usually do.

What is your greatest extravagance?
A pint of Ben and Jerry’s cookie dough ice cream.

What is your most treasured possession?
An heirloom blanket knit by my Scottish great grandmother.

Who are your heroes?
My mom and dad.

When is your birthday?
July 31, 1970.

What is your favorite place in Maine?
Knee-deep in the Kennebago River with a fly rod in my hand.

What do you order at a bar?
An old fashioned. Or, these days, water, no ice.

What is your favorite book?
“Endurance” by Alfred Lansing, or “Big Two-Hearted River” by Ernest Hemingway and “Museum of Rain” by Dave Eggers, if two short stories together count.

What is your favorite film?
“Much Ado About Nothing,” starring Emma Thompson.

Which talent would you most like to have?
Just once I’d like to be onstage with a rock ‘n’ roll band, playing music well enough to light up a stadium.

What is your most overused word or phrase?
“Terrific.”

What is your greatest extravagance?
Family trips. Some of our finest times together have been on the road or on the (hiking) trail.

What is your most treasured possession?
Snowy the dog, though “companion” is probably the right word. She’s the one thing everyone in the family would pull out of a burning building.

Who are your heroes?
My granddaddy King was a man of quiet integrity, the source for what I see in my father today. I’d add Teddy Roosevelt for being the man in the arena, Marcus Aurelius for his stoic wisdom and my mom, for gracefully handling three young boys, a full-time job and higher education. I’m not me without her.

When is your birthday?
Oct. 18, 1976.

What is your favorite place in Maine?
The top of Ames Knob on North Haven.

What do you order at a bar?
A margarita with salt this time of year, but I also like a good Maine IPA.

What is your favorite book?
Right now, “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver.

What is your favorite film?
Old-school film, “Hoosiers.” This year, it’s “One Battle After Another.”

Which talent would you most like to have?
The skills of a WNBA basketball player.

What is your most overused word or phrase?
Early morning to my 13-year old son, Oscar, on repeat: “It’s time to go to school!”

What is your greatest extravagance?
A weekend at home with my family and dog with no campaign events.

What is your most treasured possession?
My engagement ring from my great-grandmother.

Who are your heroes?
My mom because she has a lot of guts, she fights every day to make the world a better place, she taught me to put myself out there and do really hard things. And she’s an amazing grandma.

When is your birthday?
May 20, 1977.

What is your favorite place in Maine?
Reid State Park. The greenhead flies are the worst, but the waves are the best.

What do you order at a bar?
If it’s not a Diet Coke, it’s a Maine lager.

What is your favorite book?
“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” would probably be a close second.

What is your favorite film?
I gravitate toward “whodunnits” that feature super-genius detectives. “Knives Out” is a great example of that.

Which talent would you most like to have?
To paraphrase noted philosopher Skee-Lo, I wish I was a little bit taller. I also wish I was a baller. If neither is possible, I’d like to be better at gardening.

What is your most overused word or phrase?
“The good news is …” or “At the end of the day, …”

What is your greatest extravagance?
After my wife and my campaign team told me I needed to expand my wardrobe, I recently bought a new quarter zip sweater that I absolutely did not need.

What is your most treasured possession?
I value relationships and experiences above all.

Who are your heroes?
The people at the core of our public health, safety and welfare: nurses, teachers, EMTs, public health workers and people who keep food banks running.