Matthew Brackley biography: 13 things about US Capitol riot suspect from Waldoboro, Maine

Matthew Brackley is an American electrician from Waldoboro, Lincoln County, Maine, United States. He was born and raised in New Vineyard, Franklin County, Maine.

Brackley’s wife Ellen Farrington Brackley is also originally from New Vineyard. They have three children together.

Aside from Waldoboro and New Vineyard, Matthew has lived in other parts of Maine including West Bath. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. From November 2003 to November 2007, he was an apprentice electrician at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.
2. From 2004 to 2007, he attended Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Hancock County, Maine where he earned his associate’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering. On October 2, 2004, he and Ellen got married.
3. From November 2007 to March 2014, he was a senior project manager at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works.
4. From 2011 to 2013, he attended the University of Maine at Augusta in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine where he earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration and management.
5. From April 2014 to March 2016, he worked at MEITEC in Houston, Texas, USA as a senior project manager.
6. In April 2015, he obtained his master electrician license in Texas, which expired in March 2023. From June 2015 to December 2015, he was the vice president in business administration at Cowette Construction in West Bath.
7. From March 2016 to January 2017, he was the director of projects at MEITEC. In January 2017, he became the president of Brackley Electric in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine.
8. On January 5, 2021, he emailed his senators, imploring them to “stand up to this blatant corruption” and support a second term for Donald Trump before flying from Portland to Washington, D.C., USA. On January 6, 2021, he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. That day, Trump’s supporters breached the building while a joint session of Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
9. In May 2021, he obtained his master electrician license in Maine, which expired in May 2023.
10. On January 5, 2022, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents interviewed him at his residence in West Bath. In February 2022, he obtained his electrical work license in Louisiana, USA. It expired in February 2023.
11. As a Republican, he ran for election to the Maine State Senate to represent District 24. On November 8, 2022, he lost to his Democrat opponent Eloise Vitelli in the general election.
12. On July 17, 2023, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather signed a criminal complaint filed by an FBI special agent against him.
13. He was 39 years old when he was arrested on July 21, 2023 in Waldoboro. For his participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, he was charged with felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and civil disorder and misdemeanor offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a capitol building; act of physical violence in the capitol grounds or buildings; and parading, picketing, and demonstrating in a U.S. Capitol building.

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