REPRESENTATIVE VINNY DEMACEDO (R) 1st Plymouth District, the youngest of seven children, was born in Brava, Cape Verde in 1965 and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1966. After coming to America, he and his family lived in Dorchester, MA for 3 years and then settled in Kingston, Mass.

He is a 1983 graduate of Silver Lake Regional High School and a 1987 graduate of The King’s College in Briarcliff Manor, NY with a degree in Business Administration. In 1990, he married his wife Jennifer, and they reside in Plymouth with their three children, Natalie, Emily, and Jonathan.

Rep. deMacedo was first elected state representative in November 1998, and is currently serving in his sixth term. Rep. deMacedo serves in a leadership position as the Ranking Minority Member on the House Ways and Means Committee. He is also a member of the Committee on Telecommunications and Energy, the House Personnel and Administration Committee, the Creative Economy Council, the Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities Committee, as well as a member on the newly established Oceans Advisory Committee and Committee on Federal Stimulus Oversight. Representative deMacedo has most recently made headlines with his authorship of legislation that would ban a LSD-like hallucinogenic drug named Salvia Divinorum.

Outside the Legislature, Rep. deMacedo owns and operates RWA Mobil in South Plymouth with his wife Jennifer.