List of Presidents of the Maine Senate
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Name Took Office Left Office Party Hometown
John Chandler
John Chandler
John Chandler was an American politician and soldier of Maine. The political career of Chandler, a Democratic-Republican, was interspersed with his involvement in the state militia during both the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812.Chandler was born in Epping, New Hampshire, the brother of...

 
1820 1820 Democratic-Republican Monmouth
Monmouth, Maine
Monmouth is a town in Kennebec County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,785 at the 2000 census. It is a popular summer resort area, with many lakeside cottages.-History:...

William Moody 1820 1820 Democratic-Republican Saco
Saco, Maine
Saco is a city in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 18,482 at the 2010 census. It is home to Ferry Beach State Park, Funtown Splashtown USA, Thornton Academy, as well as General Dynamics Armament Systems , a subsidiary of the defense contractor General Dynamics...

William D. Williamson
William D. Williamson
William Durkee Williamson was the second Governor of the U.S. state of Maine and one of the first congressmen from Maine in the United States House of Representatives. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party...

1820 1821 Democratic-Republican Bangor
Bangor, Maine
Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine...

Daniel Rose
Daniel Rose (governor)
Dr. Daniel Rose was an American politician from the State of Maine. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and served as president of the Maine Senate. He briefly served as the fourth Governor from January 2 to January 5, 1822, filling an unexpired term between the administrations of...

1822 1823 Democratic-Republican Thomaston
Thomaston, Maine
Thomaston, Maine is a town on the coast of Maine the United States. The name may also refer to:*Thomaston , Maine, a census-designated place comprising the center of the town*South Thomaston, Maine, an adjacent town...

Benjamin Ames
Benjamin Ames
Benjamin Ames was the third Governor of the U.S. state of Maine who served from December 5, 1821 to January 2, 1822. He was born in Andover, Massachusetts and attended Harvard University. He died in 1835 in Houlton, Maine.Ames served as a County Attorney from 1807 to 1811 and then Common Pleas...

1824 1824 Democratic-Republican Bath
Bath, Maine
Bath is a city in Sagadahoc County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 9,266. It is the county seat of Sagadahoc County. Located on the Kennebec River, Bath is a port of entry with a good harbor. The city is popular with tourists, many drawn by its...

Jonas Wheeler
Jonas Wheeler
Jonas Wheeler was an American politician and lawyer. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Wheeler graduated from Harvard College in 1810. He served as Justice of the Peace, the first representative of Camden, Maine to the Maine House of Representatives and Camden's State Senator. He was the President...

1825 1826 Democratic-Republican Camden
Camden, Maine
Camden is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,254 at the 2000 census. The population of the town more than triples during the summer months, due to tourists and summer residents. Camden is a famous summer colony in the Mid-Coast region of Maine...

Robert P. Dunlap
Robert P. Dunlap
Robert Pinckney Dunlap was the 11th Governor of Maine and a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Brunswick, Maine, Dunlap was educated by private tutors. He graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1815...

1827-1828 1831 Democratic-Republican Brunswick
Brunswick, Maine
Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 20,278 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area. Brunswick is home to Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, , and the...

Nathan Cutler
Nathan Cutler
Nathan Cutler was an American politician from Maine. He was a Democrat.Cutler graduated from Dartmouth College in 1798, and practiced law in Farmington, Maine. He was a delegate to the Maine Constitutional Convention in 1819. In 1828, he was elected to the Maine Senate, and served as Senate...

1829 1829 Democratic-Republican Farmington
Joshua Hall
Joshua Hall
Joshua Hall was a Maine legislator who served as the eighth Governor of Maine for 34 days in 1830....

1830 1830 Democratic-Republican Frankfort
Frankfort, Maine
Frankfort is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,041 at the 2000 census.-History:Frankfort is the oldest town on the Penobscot River, first settled in the 1760s by Massachusetts soldiers from nearby Fort Pownall...

F.O.J. Smith
Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith
Francis Ormond Jonathan Smith was elected from the state of Maine to the United States House of Representatives to serve three terms from 1833 to 1839, serving at one point on the US House of Representatives Committee on Commerce.Smith was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New...

1832 1832 Democrat Portland
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

Joseph Williamson
Joseph Williamson (Maine)
Joseph Williamson was an American politician and lawyer. He served as President of the Maine Senate in 1833. During his career, Williamson also worked as a businessman, banker and newspaper editor....

1833 1834 Democrat Belfast
Belfast, Maine
Belfast is a city in Waldo County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6,668. Located at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River on Penobscot Bay, Belfast is the county seat of Waldo County...

Josiah Pierce 1835 1836 Democrat Gorham
Gorham, Maine
Gorham is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 16,381 at the 2010 census. In addition to an urban village center known as Gorham Village or simply "the Village," the town also encompasses a number of smaller, unincorporated villages and hamlets with distinct...

John C. Talbot 1837 1837 Democrat East Machias
East Machias, Maine
East Machias is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States on the East Machias River. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 1,298.-Geography:...

Nathaniel Littlefield
Nathaniel Littlefield
Nathaniel Swett Littlefield was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Wells on September 20, 1804. He attended the common schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Bridgton, where he also served as postmaster from 1827-1841...

1838 1838 Democrat Bridgton
Job Prince 1839 1839 Democrat Turner
Turner, Maine
Turner is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,972 at the 2000 census. Turner includes the villages of Turner Center and North Turner...

Stephen C. Foster 1840 1840 Democrat Pembroke
Pembroke, Maine
Pembroke is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 879 at the 2000 census. The town is home to reversing falls on Mahar's Point.-History:...

Richard H. Vose
Richard H. Vose
Richard H. Vose was an American politician and the 14th Governor of Maine.-Early life:Vose was born in Augusta, Maine, on November 8, 1803 and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1822.-Career:...

1841 1841 Democrat Augusta
Augusta, Maine
Augusta is the capital of the US state of Maine, county seat of Kennebec County, and center of population for Maine. The city's population was 19,136 at the 2010 census, making it the third-smallest state capital after Montpelier, Vermont and Pierre, South Dakota...

Samuel Blake 1842 1842 Democrat Bangor
Edward Kavanagh
Edward Kavanagh
Edward Kavanagh was a United States Representative and the 17th Governor of Maine. Born in Newcastle, Maine, he attended Montreal Seminary and Georgetown College, He graduated from St. Mary's College in 1813. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Damariscotta, Maine...

1843 1843 Democrat Damariscotta
Damariscotta, Maine
Damariscotta is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,041 at the 2000 census. A popular tourist resort area, the towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle are linked by the Main Street bridge over the Damariscotta River, forming the "Twin Villages." The name Damariscotta is...

Virgil D. Parris
Virgil D. Parris
Virgil Delphini Parris was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and cousin of Albion Keith Parris.Born in Buckfield, Maine, Parris attended the common schools, whereupon he entered Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine, then Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He was graduated from Union College at...

1843 1843 Democrat Buckfield
Buckfield, Maine
Buckfield is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. Buckfield is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England City and Town Area. It is a member of Maine School Administrative District 39 along with nearby Hartford and Sumner...

John W. Dana
John W. Dana
John W. Dana was the 19th and 21st Governor of Maine.- Early life :Dana was born in Fryeburg, Maine on June 21, 1808. He studied in local schools and at the Fryeburg Academy. He started his career as a businessman....

1844 1844 Democrat Fryeburg
Manly B. Townsend 1845 1845 Democrat Alexander
Alexander, Maine
Alexander is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 514 at the 2000 census. The town is named for Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, the British negotiator of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty which ended the Aroostook War in 1838-1839.-Geography:According to the...

Stephen Chase 1846 1846 Democrat Fryeburg
David Dunn 1846 1846 Democrat Poland
Poland, Maine
Poland is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,866 at the 2000 census. Home to Range Ponds State Park, Poland is a historic resort area...

John Hodgdon 1847 1847 Democrat Houlton
Houlton, Maine
Houlton is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, on the United States – Canada border, located at . As of the 2010 census, the town population was 6,123. It is perhaps best known as being at the northern terminus of Interstate 95 and for being the birthplace of Samantha Smith...

Caleb R. Ayer 1848 1848 Democrat Cornish
Cornish, Maine
Cornish is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,269 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area...

William Tripp
William Tripp
William Tripp was an American politician, lawyer, soldier, and surveyor....

1849 1849 Democrat Wilton
Paulinus Foster 1850 1850 Democrat Anson
Samuel Butman
Samuel Butman
Samuel Butman was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A farmer and War of 1812 veteran, Butman served in the Maine State House before entering the U.S. House of Representatives, where he representated Maine's seventh congressional district...

1851 1852 Democrat Dixmont
Dixmont, Maine
Dixmont is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,065 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bangor, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

Luther Moore 1854 1854 Democrat Limerick
Limerick, Maine
Limerick is a town in York County, Maine, United States. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The population was 2,240 at the 2000 census.-History:...

Franklin Muzzy 1855 1855 Whig
Whig Party (United States)
The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s, the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic...

Bangor
Lot M. Morrill
Lot M. Morrill
Lot Myrick Morrill was an American statesman who served as the 28th Governor of Maine, in the United States Senate and as Secretary of the Treasury....

1856 1856 Republican
Maine Republican Party
The Maine Republican Party is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Maine. It was founded in Strong, Maine on August 7, 1854. The state Chairman is Charles M. Webster....

Augusta
Joseph H. Williams
Joseph H. Williams
Joseph Hartwell Williams was an American politician who served as the 27th Governor of Maine from 1857 to 1858.- Early years :...

1857 1857 Republican Augusta
Hiram Chapman 1857 1857 Republican Damariscotta
Seth Scamman 1858 1858 Republican Saco
Charles Goddard 1859 1859 Republican Auburn
Auburn, Maine
Auburn is a city in and the county seat of Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The population was 23,055 at the 2010 census. It is one of two principal cities of and included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area and the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan...

Thomas H. Marshall 1860 1860 Republican Belfast
John H. Goodenow 1861 1862 Republican Alfred
Alfred, Maine
Alfred is a town in York County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 2,497. Alfred is the county seat of York County and home to part of the Massabesic Experimental Forest...

Nathan Farwell 1863 1863 Republican Rockland
Rockland, Maine
Rockland is a city in Knox County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,297. It is the county seat of Knox County. The city is a popular tourist destination...

George Barrows 1864 1864 Republican Fryeburg
David D. Stewart 1865 1865 Republican St. Albans
St. Albans, Maine
St. Albans is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,836 as of the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 47.2 square miles , of which, 44.8 square miles of it is land and 2.3 square miles of...

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