Pat grew up on a farm in upstate New York and attended Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He enjoyed a thirty-year career in forest management with International Paper in New York and Maine. He then served eight years in the Maine State House of Representatives and two years in the Maine State Senate from Winthrop, Maine. He retired in 2016 and moved to Saco, Maine. Pat’s wife Marjorie, daughter Bria, and son Ben all proudly graduated from the University of Maine.