Groton, Grafton County, NH

Representative, U.S. House of Representatives (2025 - present); Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice (2022 - present); Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law (2019 - 2021); Law Clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer (2017 - 2018); Law Clerk to Chief Judge Merrick Garland (2016 - 2017); Senior Advisor to Senator John McCain (2013); Speechwriter & Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Joseph Lieberman (2009 - 2012)

"Every job I have ever had put me in the corner of people the system overlooked. Loan officer during the 2008 crash. Hollywood producer fighting for talent against long odds. Founder of RoadHouse, a trading community built for people who were never invited to the table. Running RoadHouse changed something for me. Watching everyday people try to build financial security while monetary policy and Wall Street moved in ways most Americans never saw or understood made the divide impossible to ignore. Money determines policy. Policy determines opportunity. And for most people in places like western New Hampshire, neither one has ever worked in their favor. That realization brought me here. Most recently, I joined the board of a struggling food co-op, redesigned the model from the ground up, helped secure funding, and launched a pilot program that actually worked.

"My goal is to deliver accountability to the people of NH-02 that holds the federal government to a standard the founding fathers would have endorsed. The path we are on is not sustainable. The promises made to working families in western New Hampshire have been broken for decades by both parties. I am not here to join that system. I am here to change it. My only priority is to deliver on what has been promised and ignored for too long. The people of NH-02 deserve nothing less."

Councilor, Executive Council (inauguration January 2025); Lebanon City Councilor and Former Mayor; Grafton County Treasurer

U.S. Air Force (1998 - 2008); retail; manufacturing industry; member, Newport Historic Society; treasurer, Upper Valley Libertarians

Senator, NH Senate (2020 - present); Lebanon City Councilor (12 years); Mayor of Lebanon (2 years); former Chief of EMS, NH Department of Safety; paramedic

Founder and chair, Plainfield–Cornish Republican Town Committee; member, Sullivan County Republican Caucus; NH GOP vice chair for Sullivan and Cheshire counties; chair, NH GOP ad hoc committee for immigrant outreach; trustee, Log Cabin Republicans

Moderator, Town of Hebron; Moderator, Pasquaney School District; Trustee, Hubbard Brook Research Foundation
 

Novelist; former IT administrator

"Donald McFarlane was elected in 2024 to represent Grafton County District 18 in the New Hampshire House, where he serves on the House Judiciary Committee. In Orange, he serves on the planning board and budget committee and as a trustee of the trust funds. During his first term, Donald sponsored successful legislation requiring government-issued photo identification to vote, establishing a vulnerability disclosure program to help secure New Hampshire’s election systems, prohibiting the Grafton County Attorney from maintaining a private law practice, and eliminating unnecessary title and bill-of-sale paperwork at routine vehicle-registration renewals. Donald has also worked to protect constitutional rights. He secured final legislative passage of a measure limiting intrusive questions on applications for licenses to carry a pistol or revolver, advanced additional pro-Second Amendment legislation through the House, and led House adoption of resolutions reaffirming the right of people of all persuasions to keep and bear arms and promoting greater diversity of viewpoints at New Hampshire’s public colleges and universities. A graduate electrical engineer and cybersecurity leader with more than three decades of experience, Donald has served as a chief information security officer and advised major organizations on cybersecurity, risk management, resilience, and incident response. He is NACD Directorship Certified and spent more than a decade serving his community as a volunteer EMT and EMS chief. He previously served in the Royal Corps of Signals. A resident of Orange since 2008, Donald became a United States citizen in 2002. He and his wife, Karen, have been married since 2012 and live in Orange with their son, Cameron, and their Shetland sheepdog, Neep."