What key details about joe perry -lrb- politician -rrb- can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: joseph ' joe ' c. perry is an american politician from maine . perry , a democrat , served in the maine senate from district 32 , which included his hometown of bangor and hermon . he was first elected to the senate in 2004 after serving from 8 years -lrb- 1996-2004 -rrb- in the maine house of representatives representing part of bangor . he defeated incumbent republican senator tom sawyer by 280 votes . in the 124th legislature -lrb- 2008-2010 -rrb- , perry served as senate chair of the joint standing committee on taxation . in 2010 , perry sought re-election to represent district 32 . however , he was defeated with 42 % of the vote in a two-way race to republican nichi farnham . he attended the university of maine at orono from 1984-1988 .
- preceded is tom sawyer- party is democratic- state senate is maine- district is 32nd- term end is 2010- succeeded is nichi farnham- term start is 2004- state is maine- name is joe perry