Political party strength in Maine
Encyclopedia
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...

:

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
  • State Senate
    Maine Senate
    The Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. The Senate currently consists of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, though the Maine Constitution allows for "an odd number of Senators, not less than...

  • State House of Representatives
    Maine House of Representatives
    The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 members representing an equal amount of districts across the state. Each voting member of the House represents around 8,450 citizens of the state...

  • State delegation to the U.S. Senate
  • State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives


For years in which a presidential election
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

 was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

The parties are as follows: (D), (DR), (F), (GB), (I), (NR), (NU), (O), (R), and (W).
YearExecutive office|State Legislature
Maine Legislature
The Maine Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. It is a bicameral body composed of the lower house Maine House of Representatives and the upper house Maine Senate...

|United States Congress
United States Congressional Delegations from Maine
These are tables of congressional delegations from Maine to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Maine became a state on March 15, 1820.-United States Senate:-House of Representatives:-List of representatives:...

|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

GovernorState Senate
Maine Senate
The Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. The Senate currently consists of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, though the Maine Constitution allows for "an odd number of Senators, not less than...

State House
Maine House of Representatives
The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 members representing an equal amount of districts across the state. Each voting member of the House represents around 8,450 citizens of the state...

U.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class II)U.S. House District 1
Maine's 1st congressional district
Maine's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Maine. The geographically smaller of the two congressional districts in the state, the district covers the southern coastal area of the state. The district consists of all of Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc,...

U.S. House District 2
Maine's 2nd congressional district
Maine's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Maine. Covering , it comprises nearly 80% of the state. It is the largest district east of the Mississippi River and the 24th-largest overall. The district consists of all of the state north of the Portland and...

Former U.S. House Districts
1820 William King
William King (governor)
William King was an American merchant, shipbuilder, army officer, and statesman from Bath, Maine. A proponent of statehood for Maine, he became its first Governor when it separated from Massachusetts in 1820....

 (DR)
John Holmes
John Holmes (U.S. politician)
John Holmes was an American politician. Holmes, a National Republican, served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and was one of the first two U.S. Senators from Maine. Holmes was noted for his involvement in the Treaty of Ghent.-Early life and education:Holmes was born in Kingston,...

 (DR)
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...

 (DR)
At large: Joseph Dane
Joseph Dane
Joseph Dane was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Beverly, Massachusetts on October 25, 1778. He received his early education in Beverly, attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard University in 1799....

 (F)
James Monroe
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation...

 and Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins was an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, the fourth Governor of New York , and the sixth Vice President of the United States .-Name:...

 (DR)
1821
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...

 (DR)
Joseph Dane (F) Ezekiel Whitman
Ezekiel Whitman
Ezekiel Whitman was a United States Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine. He was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts on March 9, 1776. He graduated from Brown University in 1795...

 (F)
5DR
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...

 (DR)
1822 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...

 (DR)
Albion K. Parris
Albion K. Parris
Albion Keith Parris was an American politician and jurist of Maine. Parris served in many elected and appointed positions throughout this life, including state legislator, U.S. Senator, the fifth Governor of Maine, state Supreme Court judge, and mayor.-Biography:Parris was born in Hebron, Maine,...

 (DR)
vacant
1823 William Burleigh
William Burleigh
William Burleigh was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Northwood, New Hampshire, on October 24, 1785. He moved with his parents to Gilmanton, New Hampshire, in 1788 where he attended the common schools and taught for several years...

 (DR)
Mark Harris
Mark Harris (Maine politician)
Mark Harris was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts on January 27, 1779. He attended the common schools, then moved to Portland, Maine in 1800....

 (DR)
Stephen Longfellow
Stephen Longfellow
Stephen Longfellow was a U.S. Representative from Maine.-Biography:Born in Gorham, Maine to Stephen Longfellow and Patience Young Longfellow , Longfellow graduated from Harvard University in 1798. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced practice in Portland, Maine...

 (F)
1824 John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...

 and John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun eloquently spoke out on every issue of his day, but often changed positions. Calhoun began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer, and proponent...

 (DR)
1825 William Burleigh (NR) John Anderson
John Anderson (Maine)
John Anderson was a Maine politician. Anderson served as United States Representative from Maine from 1825-1833. He was born in Windham on July 30, 1792. He attended the common schools and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1813...

 (DR)
3DR, 2NR
1826
1827 Enoch Lincoln
Enoch Lincoln
Enoch Lincoln was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine, son of Levi Lincoln and brother of Levi Lincoln . Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Lincoln graduated from Harvard University in 1807.He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of his profession in...

 (DR)
Albion K. Parris (DR) 3NR, 2DR
vacant
Rufus McIntire
Rufus McIntire
Rufus McIntire was a United States lawyer, captain of artillery in the War of 1812, congressman, land surveyor and prisoner of war.-Early life:...

 (DR)
1828 John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush
Richard Rush
Richard Rush was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the second son of Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and Julia Rush. He entered the College of New Jersey at the age of 14, and graduated in 1797 as the youngest member of his class...

 (DR)
1829 John Holmes (NR) Peleg Sprague (NR) 3DR, 2NR
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...

 (D)
1830 Joshua Hall
Joshua Hall
Joshua Hall was a Maine legislator who served as the eighth Governor of Maine for 34 days in 1830....

 (D)
Jonathan Hunton (NR)
1831 Samuel E. Smith
Samuel E. Smith
Samuel Emerson Smith was an American politician and the tenth Governor of Maine.- Early life :Smith was born in Hollis, New Hampshire on March 12, 1788. He graduated from Harvard University in 1808. He then studied law....

 (D)
4DR, 1NR
1832 Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

 and Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States . Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson ....

 (D)
1833 Ether Shepley
Ether Shepley
Ether Shepley was an American politician.Shepley, a Democratic-Republican, served in the Maine State House before becoming one of the state's U.S. Senators. Shepley resigned from the Senate after two years to become a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.Shepley was born in Groton,...

 (DR)
Francis 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...

 (DR)
5DR, 1NR
1834 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...

 (D)
1835 John Ruggles
John Ruggles
John Ruggles was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. He served in several important state legislative and judicial positions before serving in the U.S. Senate....

 (D)
John Fairfield
John Fairfield
John Fairfield was a U.S. politician from Maine.He was born in Saco, Maine and attended the Saco schools, Thornton Academy and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He then engaged in trade and studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1826, and practiced successfully in his native town and in...

 (D)
4DR, 2NR
1836 Judah Dana
Judah Dana
Judah Dana was a Maine statesman and U.S. Senator.He was born either in Connecticut or Vermont. He was a grandson of the American Revolutionary War Gen. Israel Putnam....

 (DR)
Martin Van Buren and Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren . He was the only vice-president ever elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S...

 (D)
1837 Reuel Williams
Reuel Williams
Reuel Williams was a U.S. Senator from Maine.Born in Hallowell, Maine to Seth Williams and Zelphia Ingraham, he attended Hallowell Academy, and went on to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1804, commencing practice in Augusta, Maine.He was a member of the Maine Legislature from 1812 to 1829...

 (D)
Francis Smith (D) 4D, 2W
1838 Edward Kent
Edward Kent
Edward Kent was the 12th and 15th Governor of the U.S. state of Maine during the Aroostook War. Born in 1802 in Concord, New Hampshire, he later moved to Bangor, Maine and spent the rest of his life there. He was among the last prominent members of the Whig Party in Maine before it collapsed in...

 (W)
3D, 3W
1839 John Fairfield (D) Nathan Clifford
Nathan Clifford
Nathan Clifford was an American statesman, diplomat and jurist.Clifford was born of old Yankee stock in Rumney, New Hampshire, to farmers, the only son of seven children He attended the public schools of that town, then the Haverhill Academy in New...

 (D)
Albert Smith
Albert Smith (Maine)
Albert Smith was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Hanover, Massachusetts, Smith attended the common schools and was graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1813. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Portland, Maine, in 1817. He served as...

 (D)
4D, 2W
1840 William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States , an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when elected, the oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, and last President to be born before the...

 and John Tyler
John Tyler
John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States . A native of Virginia, Tyler served as a state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator before being elected Vice President . He was the first to succeed to the office of President following the death of a predecessor...

 (W)
1841 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:...

 (W)
George Evans (W) William Pitt Fessenden (W) 3D, 3W
Edward Kent (W)
1842 John Fairfield (D)
1843
Edward Kavanaugh (D) vacant Joshua Herrick
Joshua Herrick
Joshua Herrick was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Beverly, Massachusetts where he attended the common schools. He moved to the district of Maine in 1811 and engaged in the lumber business and served in the War of 1812...

 (D)
Robert P. Dunlap (D) 3D, 2W
1844 David Dunn
David Dunn (Governor)
David Dunn was an American Democratic politician and lawyer. He served as the 18th Governor of Maine in 1844.- Biography :David Dunn was born in Cornish, Maine on January 17, 1811....

 (D)
John Fairfield (D) James K. Polk
James K. Polk
James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States . Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as the 17th Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 12th Governor of Tennessee...

 and George M. Dallas
George M. Dallas
George Mifflin Dallas was a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States , serving under James K. Polk.-Family and early life:...

 (D)
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....

 (D)
Hugh J. Anderson (D)
1845 John Fairfield Scamman
John Fairfield Scamman
John Fairfield Scammon was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Wells on October 24, 1786. He attended the common schools, then engaged in mercantile pursuits....

 (D)
4D, 1W
1846
1847 James W. Bradbury
James W. Bradbury
James Ware Bradbury was a United States Senator from Maine.Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, he attended the common schools and Gorham Academy...

 (D)
David Hammons
David Hammons
David Hammons is an African-American artist mostly known for his works in and around New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.Much of his work, including Spade with Chains , reflects his commitment to the civil rights and Black Power movements...

 (D)
Asa Clapp
Asa Clapp
Asa Clapp was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Portland on March 6, 1805. He graduated from the Norwich Military Academy in 1823. He engaged as a merchant in foreign and domestic commerce in Portland. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress . He was not...

 (D)
John W. Dana (D)
1848 Wyman B. S. Moor (D) Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass was an American military officer and politician. During his long political career, Cass served as a governor of the Michigan Territory, an American ambassador, a U.S. Senator representing Michigan, and co-founder as well as first Masonic Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Michigan...

 and William O. Butler (D)
Hannibal Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin was the 15th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War...

 (D)
1849 Elbridge Gerry
Elbridge Gerry
Elbridge Thomas Gerry was an American statesman and diplomat. As a Democratic-Republican he was selected as the fifth Vice President of the United States , serving under James Madison, until his death a year and a half into his term...

 (D)
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...

 (D)
3D, 2W
1850
John Hubbard (D)
1851 Moses MacDonald
Moses Macdonald
Moses Macdonald was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Limerick, Maine, where he received an academic education. Later, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1837, and commenced practice in Biddeford, Maine in 1837.Macdonald was a member of the Maine House of...

 (D)
John Appleton
John Appleton
John Appleton was born in Beverly, Massachusetts and raised in Cumberland County, Maine, USA. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834, also studied at Cambridge Law School, and was admitted to the Cumberland County bar in 1837, commencing practice in Portland, Maine.He also did editorial work on...

 (D)
1852 3W, 2D Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army...

 and William R. King
William R. King
William Rufus DeVane King was the 13th Vice President of the United States for about six weeks , and earlier a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, Minister to France, and a Senator from Alabama...

 (D)
1853 William G. Crosby
William G. Crosby
William George Crosby was an American politician and the 23rd Governor of Maine.- Early life :Crosby was born in Belfast, Maine on September 10, 1805. He studied at Belfast Academy. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1823. He then studied law...

 (W)
vacant Samuel Mayall
Samuel Mayall
Samuel Mayall was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in North Gray, Maine. He both attended the public schools and was tutored privately at home. Later, he moved to Gray, Maine....

 (D)
3W, 1D
1854 William Pitt Fessenden (W)
1855 Anson P. Morrill
Anson P. Morrill
Anson Peaslee Morrill was an American politician. Born in 1803 in Belgrade, Maine, originally a storekeeper and millkeeper, he was the 24th Governor of Maine from 1855 to 1856, represented Maine's fourth district in the United States House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863 and served in the...

 (R)
John M. Wood
John M. Wood
John M. Wood was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Minisink, New York, Wood attended the common schools. He engaged in railroad construction in New Jersey and moved to Portland, Maine, in 1846. He was one of the contractors in the construction of the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad, and he...

 (R)
John J. Perry
John J. Perry
John Jasiel Perry was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Perry moved with his parents to Hebron , Maine, in 1812. He attended the common schools and Maine Wesleyan Seminary. He became deputy sheriff of Oxford County and served as member of the state house of...

 (O)
2O, 1D, 1R
1856 Samuel Wells
Samuel Wells
Samuel Wells was an American politician and the 25th Governor of Maine.He was born in Durham, New Hampshire on August 15, 1801. He studied at local school and later studied law. He had a successful career in law. He served as an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Court from 1847 to 1854. Wells...

 (D)
John C. Fremont
John C. Frémont
John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder...

 and William L. Dayton
William L. Dayton
William Lewis Dayton was an American politician.A distant relation of U.S. House Speaker and U.S. Constitution signatory Jonathan Dayton, he was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey to farmer Joel Dayton and his wife...

 (R)
1857 Hannibal Hamlin (R) Amos Nourse
Amos Nourse
Amos Nourse was a medical doctor and U.S. Senator for a very short term from the state of Maine. Born in Bolton, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard College in 1812 and from Harvard Medical School in 1817. At first settling in Wiscasset, and subsequently in Hallowell, Maine, he finally...

 (R)
Charles J. Gilman
Charles J. Gilman
Charles Jervis Gilman was a U.S. Representative from Maine, grandnephew of John Taylor Gilman and Nicholas Gilman....

 (R)
4R
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 :...

 (R)
Hannibal Hamlin (R)
1858 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....

 (R)
1859 William Pitt Fessenden (R) Daniel E. Somes
Daniel E. Somes
Daniel E. Somes was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Meredith, New Hampshire on May 20, 1815. He received an academic education, then moved to Biddeford, Maine in 1846. He established the Eastern Journal, later known as the Union and Journal.He engaged in the manufacture...

 (R)
John J. Perry (R)
1860 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

 and Hannibal Hamlin (R)
1861 Israel Washburn Jr. (R) 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....

 (R)
John N. Goodwin (R) Charles W. Walton
Charles W. Walton
Charles Wesley Walton was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Mexico, Maine where he attended the common schools and was also instructed at home and by private tutors...

 (R)
1862 vacant
1863 Abner Coburn
Abner Coburn
Abner Coburn was the 30th Governor of Maine from 1863 to 1864 and a prominent individual in Skowhegan, Maine until his death....

 (R)
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat was a U.S. Representative from Maine.He was born in Parsonsfield, Maine, where he attended Parsonsfield Seminary, a Freewill Baptist school. Sweat then attended Bowdoin College, from where he graduated in 1837. He graduated from Harvard University in 1840, having studied...

 (D)
Thomas Fessenden (R) 3R
Sidney Perham
Sidney Perham
Sidney Perham was a U.S. Representative and the 33rd Governor of Maine and was an activist in the temperance movement....

 (R)
1864 Samuel Cony
Samuel Cony
Samuel Cony was an American politician, who most notably served as the 31st Governor of Maine from 1864 to 1867.- Early years :...

 (R)
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...

 (NU)
Nathan A. Farwell
Nathan A. Farwell
Nathan Allen Farwell was a politician, businessman and United States Senator from Maine.-Biography:Born in Unity, Maine, he attended the common schools, and then taught school 1832–33. He moved to East Thomaston, Maine, in 1834 and engaged in the manufacture of lime and in shipbuilding....

 (R)
1865 William Pitt Fessenden (R) John Lynch (R)
1866
1867 Joshua L. Chamberlain (R)
1868 Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...

 and Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax, Jr. was a United States Representative from Indiana , Speaker of the House of Representatives , and the 17th Vice President of the United States . To date, he is one of only two Americans to have served as both House speaker and vice president.President Ulysses S...

 (R)
1869 Hannibal Hamlin (R) Samuel P. Morrill
Samuel P. Morrill
Samuel Plummer Morrill was a nineteenth century politician and minister from Maine.Born in Chesterville, Maine, Morrill attended common schools as a child and later attended Farmington Academy in Farmington, Maine. He studied theology, was ordained a minister and held pastorates in Farmington from...

 (R)
Lot M. Morrill (R)
1870
1871 Sidney Perham
Sidney Perham
Sidney Perham was a U.S. Representative and the 33rd Governor of Maine and was an activist in the temperance movement....

 (R)
William P. Frye
William P. Frye
William Pierce Frye was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Frye spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of Representatives and U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served for 30 years and died in...

 (R)
1872 Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson was the 18th Vice President of the United States and a Senator from Massachusetts...

 (R)
1873 John H. Burleigh
John H. Burleigh
John Holmes Burleigh was a nineteenth century politician, sailor, manufacturer and banker from Maine. He was the son of William Burleigh....

 (R)
1874 Nelson Dingley, Jr.
Nelson Dingley, Jr.
Nelson Dingley, Jr., also known as Edward Nelson Dingley, Jr., was a journalist and politician from the U.S. state of Maine....

 (R)
1875
1876 Selden Connor (R) Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...

 and William Almon Wheeler (R)
James G. Blaine
James G. Blaine
James Gillespie Blaine was a U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time Secretary of State...

 (R)
1877 Thomas Brackett Reed
Thomas Brackett Reed
Thomas Brackett Reed, , occasionally ridiculed as Czar Reed, was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1889–1891 and from 1895–1899...

 (R)
1878
1879 Alonzo Garcelon
Alonzo Garcelon
Dr. Alonzo Garcelon was the 36th Governor of Maine, an American Civil War surgeon general, and a co-founder of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.-Birth and early years:...

 (D)
2GB, 1R
1880 Daniel F. Davis
Daniel F. Davis
Daniel Franklin Davis was an American politician and the 37th Governor of Maine.-Early life:Davis was born in born in Freedom, Maine on September 12, 1843. He entered the East Corinth Academy in 1863 but after a few weeks he enlisted in the Grand Army of the Republic to fight in the Civil War...

 (R)
James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur
Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States . Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing...

 (R)
1881 Harris M. Plaisted
Harris M. Plaisted
Harris Merrill Plaisted was an American Civil War general, U.S. Congressman, and the 38th Governor of Maine.-Biography:...

 (D)
Eugene Hale
Eugene Hale
Eugene Hale was a Republican United States Senator from Maine.Born at Turner, Maine, he was educated in local schools and at Maine's Hebron Academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1857 and served for nine years as prosecuting attorney for Hancock County, Maine. He was elected to the Maine...

 (R)
William P. Frye (R) vacant
Nelson Dingley, Jr. (R)
1882
1883 Frederick Robie
Frederick Robie
Frederick Robie was an American politician who most notably served as the 39th Governor of Maine.- Early life :...

 (R)
At large: Thomas B. Reed; Nelson Dingley, Jr.; Seth L. Milliken
Seth L. Milliken
Seth Llewellyn Milliken was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Montville, Maine, Milliken attended the common schools and Waterville College.He was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1856....

; and Charles A. Boutelle
Charles A. Boutelle
Charles A. Boutelle was an American seaman, shipmaster, naval officer, Civil War veteran, newspaper editor, publisher, conservative Republican politician, and nine-term Representative to the U.S. Congress from the 4th Congressional District of Maine. He remains the second longest-serving U.S...

 (R)
1884 James G. Blaine and John Alexander Logan (R)
1885 Thomas Brackett Reed (R) Nelson Dingley, Jr. (R) 2R
1886
1887 Joseph R. Bodwell
Joseph R. Bodwell
Joseph Robinson Bodwell was an American politician who most notably served as the 40th Governor of Maine.- Early life :Bodwell was born in Methuen, Massachusetts on June 18, 1818...

 (R)
Sebastian Streeter Marble
Sebastian Streeter Marble
Sebastian Streeter Marble was an American politician and who most notably served as the 41st Governor of Maine.Marble was born in Dixfield, Maine on March 1, 1817. He studied at the Waterville Academy. He then studied law. In 1843, he was admitted to the bar. He practiced law in Waldoboro, Maine...

 (R)
1888 Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...

 and Levi P. Morton
Levi P. Morton
Levi Parsons Morton was a Representative from New York and the 22nd Vice President of the United States . He also later served as the 31st Governor of New York.-Biography:...

 (R)
1889 Edwin C. Burleigh
Edwin C. Burleigh
Edwin Chick Burleigh was an American politician from the state of Maine.Born in Linneus, Maine he attended the common schools and Houlton Academy before becoming a teacher himself. He also worked as a surveyor and farmer before entering government...

 (R)
1890
1891
1892 Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid
Whitelaw Reid
Whitelaw Reid was a U.S. politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War.-Early life:...

 (R)
1893 Henry B. Cleaves
Henry B. Cleaves
Henry Bradstreet Cleaves was an American politician and the 43rd Governor of Maine.-Early life:Cleaves was born in Bridgton, Maine on February 6, 1840. He studied at local schools.-American Civil War:...

 (R)
1894
1895
1896 William McKinley
William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

 and Garret A. Hobart (R)
1897 Llewellyn Powers
Llewellyn Powers
Llewellyn Powers was a U.S. Representative from Maine and the 44th Governor of Maine.Born in Pittsfield, Maine, Powers attended the common schools of Pittsfield and St...

 (R)
1898
1899 vacant
vacant Charles E. Littlefield
Charles E. Littlefield
Charles Edgar Littlefield was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Lebanon, Maine on June 21, 1851. He attended the common schools and Foxcroft Academy. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Rockland...

 (R)
1900 Amos L. Allen
Amos L. Allen
Amos Lawrence Allen was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Waterboro, Maine, Allen attended the common schools, Whitestown Seminary, Whitestown, New York, and was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1860. He studied law at Columbian Law School, Washington, D.C....

 (R)
William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

 (R)
1901 John Fremont Hill
John Fremont Hill
John Fremont Hill was an American capitalist and public official.He graduated from the Medical School of Maine in 1877 and studied at the Long Island College Hospital Medical School, but practiced medicine only a year. In 1879 he became a member of the law firm of J.F...

 (R)
1902
1903
1904 Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States ....

 
1905 William T. Cobb
William T. Cobb
William T. Cobb is an American politician and the 46th Governor of Maine.Cobb was born in Rockland, Maine on July 23, 1857. He graduated in 1877 from Bowdoin College, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. After completing his graduation, he went to study in Germany. He studied at the...

 (R)
1906
1907
1908 William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

 and James S. Sherman
James S. Sherman
James Schoolcraft Sherman was a United States Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States . He was a member of the Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families.-Early life:...

 (R)
vacant
1909 Bert M. Fernald
Bert M. Fernald
Bert Manfred Fernald was a United States Senator and the 47th Governor of Maine.Born in West Poland, Maine, he attended the public schools, Hebron Academy and a business and preparatory school in Boston. He then taught school , and then engaged in the canning, dairy, and telephone businesses...

 (R)
John P. Swasey
John P. Swasey
John Philip Swasey was U.S. Representative from Maine from 1908-1911.- Biography :Swasey was born in Canton, Maine on September 4, 1839 and attended the Canton public schools, Dearborn Academy, Hebron Academy, Maine State Seminary , and Tufts College...

 (R)
1910
1911 Frederick W. Plaisted
Frederick W. Plaisted
Frederick William Plaisted was an American politician and the 48th Governor of Maine.-Early life:Plaisted was born in Bangor, Maine on July 26, 1865. He studied at local schools and at the St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont. He established a career in publishing...

 (D)
Charles Fletcher Johnson
Charles Fletcher Johnson
Charles Fletcher Johnson was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Maine from 1911 until 1917.-Biography:Born in Winslow, Maine, he attended the public schools and the Waterville Classical Institute. He graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1879. He was the principal of the high school of...

 (D)
Asher Hinds (R) Daniel J. McGillicuddy
Daniel J. McGillicuddy
Daniel J. McGillicuddy was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Lewiston on August 27, 1859 to John and Ellen McGillicuddy. He attended the common schools and then Bates College in Lewiston from 1877 to 1880. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1881...

 (D)
1R, 1D
Obadiah Gardner
Obadiah Gardner
Obadiah Gardner was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Gardner was a businessman and member of the Democratic Party who served in several minor state executive positions before serving a single six-year term in the United States Senate.Gardner was born near Port Huron, Michigan...

 (D)
1912 Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

 and Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas Riley Marshall was an American Democratic politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States under Woodrow Wilson...

 (D)
1913 William T. Haines
William T. Haines
William T. Haines was an American politician and the 49th Governor of Maine.- Early years :Haines was born in Levant, Maine on August 7, 1854. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1876. He then studied at the Albany Law School and completed his LL.B. degree in 1878. He established a...

 (R)
Edwin C. Burleigh (R) 2R
1914
1915 Oakley C. Curtis
Oakley C. Curtis
Oakley C. Curtis was an American politician and the 50th Governor of Maine.- Early life :Curtis was born in Portland, Maine on March 29, 1865. He studied at the local schools. He worked in the banking industry...

 (D)
1916 Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

 and Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States ....

 (R)
vacant
Bert M. Fernald (R)
1917 Carl E. Milliken
Carl E. Milliken
Carl Elias Milliken was a U.S. Republican and Progressive Party politician, 51st governor of Maine. An early notable figure in the motion picture industry.A native of Pittsfield, Maine, Milliken graduated from Bates College in 1897...

 (R)
Frederick Hale
Frederick Hale
Frederick Hale was a politician from the U.S. state of Maine, representing the state in the United States Senate from 1917 to 1941. He was the son of Eugene Hale, the grandson of Zachariah Chandler, both also U.S. Senators, brother of diplomat Chandler Hale, and the cousin of U.S...

 (R)
Louis B. Goodall
Louis B. Goodall
Louis Bertrand Goodall was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Winchester, New Hampshire on September 23, 1851. He moved to Troy, New Hampshire with his parents in 1852...

 (R)
Wallace H. White, Jr.
Wallace H. White, Jr.
Wallace Humphrey White, Jr. was a prominent American politician and Republican leader in United States Congress from 1916 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S...

 (R)
1918
1919
1920 Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...

 and Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

 (R)
1921 Frederic H. Parkhurst
Frederic H. Parkhurst
Frederic Hale Parkhurst is a former Maine Republican politician.Parkhurst ran for governor in 1920 and won the general election with 65% of the Maine citizens votes...

 (R)
Carroll L. Beedy
Carroll L. Beedy
Carroll L. Beedy was a U.S. Representative from Maine from 1921-1935.He was born in Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, on August 3, 1880. He attended the public schools of Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine and graduated from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, in 1903 and from the law department of...

 (R)
Percival P. Baxter
Percival P. Baxter
Percival Proctor Baxter was the 53rd Governor of the U.S. state of Maine who served from 1921 to 1925.-Early life:...

 (R)
1922
1923
1924 Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes
Charles G. Dawes
Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States . For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served in the First World War, was U.S...

 (R)
1925 Owen Brewster
Owen Brewster
Ralph Owen Brewster was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, was solidly conservative...

 (R)
1926
vacant
Arthur R. Gould
Arthur R. Gould
Arthur Robinson Gould was a United States Senator from Maine.Born in Corinth, Maine, he attended the common schools and East Corinth Academy. He moved first to Bangor, Maine, where he opened a candy factory and met and married his wife, and then to Presque Isle, Maine, in 1887...

 (R)
1927
1928 Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

 and Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States...

 (R)
1929 William Tudor Gardiner
William Tudor Gardiner
William Tudor Gardiner was an American politician and the 55th Governor of Maine.- Early life :Gardiner was born in Newton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1892. He studied at the Groton School. He went to Harvard University for his higher studies and completed his law degree in 1917.- First World War...

 (R)
1930
1931 Wallace H. White, Jr. (R) Donald B. Partridge
Donald B. Partridge
Donald Barrows Partridge was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Partridge was a lawyer, jurist, and Republican Party leader before he was elected to U.S. House of Representatives, where he served a single term in the 1930s.Partridge was born in Norway, Maine, a town in Oxford...

 (R)
1932 Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R)
1933 Louis J. Brann
Louis J. Brann
Louis Jefferson Brann was an American lawyer and political figure. He was the 56th Governor of Maine.- Early life :...

 (D)
Edward C. Moran, Jr.
Edward C. Moran, Jr.
Edward Carleton Moran, Jr. was an American politician from Maine. Born in Rockland, Maine and a graduate of Bowdoin College, Moran was a veteran of World War I. A Democrat, he unsuccessfully ran for governor of Maine in 1928 and 1930. He was elected to two terms as a congressman from 1933 to 1937...

 (D)
John G. Utterback
John G. Utterback
John Gregg Utterback was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and cousin of Hubert Utterback.Born in Franklin, Indiana, Utterback attended the public schools of his native city.He was employed in a carriage factory 1889-1892....

 (D)
1934
1935 Simon M. Hamlin
Simon M. Hamlin
Simon Moulton Hamlin was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Hamlin was born in Standish , Cumberland County, Maine, Hamlin attended the public schools, Gorham Normal School, and Bridgton Academy....

 (D)
Owen Brewster (R)
1936 Alf Landon
Alf Landon
Alfred Mossman "Alf" Landon was an American Republican politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Kansas from 1933–1937. He was best known for being the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States, defeated in a landslide by Franklin D...

 and Frank Knox
Frank Knox
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 (R)
1937 Lewis O. Barrows
Lewis O. Barrows
Lewis O. Barrows was an American politician and the 57th Governor of Maine.- Early life :Barrows was born in Newport, Maine on June 7, 1893. He studied in the local school of Maine. He later studied at the University of Maine.- Politics :Barrow became the treasurer of Newport and held that...

 (R)
James C. Oliver
James C. Oliver
James Churchill Oliver was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in South Portland, Maine, Oliver attended the public schools.Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, A.B., 1917....

 (R)
Clyde H. Smith (R)
1938
1939
1940 Wendell Willkie
Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for the president in 1940. A member of the liberal wing of the GOP, he crusaded against those domestic policies of the New Deal that he thought were inefficient and...

 and Charles L. McNary
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary was a United States Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the Senate from 1917 to 1944, and was Senate Minority Leader from 1933 to 1944. In the Senate, McNary helped to pass legislation that led to the construction of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, and worked...

 (R)
vacant
Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate, and the first woman from Maine to serve in either. She was also the first woman to have her name...

 (R)
1941 Sumner Sewall
Sumner Sewall
Sumner Sewall was a U.S. Republican politician and airline executive who served as the 58th Governor of Maine from 1941 to 1945. He began his aviation career during World War I as a fighter ace.-Biography:...

 (R)
Owen Brewster (R) Frank Fellows
Frank Fellows (politician)
Frank Fellows was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Bucksport, Maine, Fellows attended the public schools, East Maine Conference Seminary, Bucksport, Maine, and the University of Maine....

 (R)
1942
1943 32R, 1D 136R, 15D Robert Hale
Robert Hale (Maine)
Robert S. Hale was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and first cousin of U.S. Senator Frederick Hale, also of Maine....

 (R)
1944 Thomas E. Dewey and John W. Bricker
John W. Bricker
John William Bricker was a United States Senator and the 54th Governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1944.-Early life:...

 (R)
1945 Horace A. Hildreth
Horace A. Hildreth
Horace Augustus Hildreth was born on December 2, 1902 in Gardiner, Maine, the son of an attorney. Hildreth attended local schools before graduating from Bowdoin College in the class of 1925 and receiving his LL.B...

 (R)
31R, 2D 136R, 15D
1946
1947 30R, 3D 127R, 24D
1948 Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren
Earl Warren
Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...

 (R)
1949 Frederick G. Payne
Frederick G. Payne
Frederick George Payne was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Maine. He was born in Lewiston, Maine....

 (R)
28R, 5D 125R, 25D Margaret Chase Smith (R) Charles P. Nelson
Charles P. Nelson (congressman)
Charles P. "Charlie" Nelson was a member of the US House of Representatives from Maine. He was born in Waterville, Maine, in 1907. He graduated from Cony High School in Augusta, Maine and from Colby College in Waterville. Later, he attended Harvard Law School, earning his Juris Doctor, and...

 (R)
1950
1951 31R, 2D 126R, 24D, 1I
vacant
Clifford McIntire (R)
1952 Burton M. Cross
Burton M. Cross
Burton Melvin Cross was a Maine Republican politician. Cross was Maine's 61st and 63rd Governor....

 (R)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

 and Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

 (R)
1953 Nathaniel M. Haskell
Nathaniel M. Haskell
Nathaniel Mervin Haskell was a Maine Republican politician. Haskell served as the 62nd Governor of Maine for 25 hours: from 10:00am January 6, 1953 to 11:00am January 7, 1953.-Biography:...

 (R)
31R, 2D 127R, 24D Frederick G. Payne (R)
1954 Burton M. Cross (R)
1955 Edmund Muskie
Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie was an American politician from Rumford, Maine. He served as Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, as a member of the United States Senate from 1959 to 1980, and as Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981...

 (D)
27R, 6D 117R, 34D
1956
1957 25R, 8D 100R, 51D Frank M. Coffin
Frank M. Coffin
Frank Morey Coffin was an American politician from Maine and a United States federal judge. He was a Democrat.-Early life, education, and career:...

 (D)
1958
1959 Clinton Clauson
Clinton Clauson
Clinton Amos Clauson was a Democratic Party politician and the 66th Governor of Maine....

 (D)
21R, 12D 93R, 58D Edmund Muskie (D) James C. Oliver (D)
1960 John H. Reed
John H. Reed
John Hathaway Reed was the 67th Governor of Maine. He was once an Aroostook County potato farmer. Reed is a Republican, who took office following the death of Governor Clinton Clauson....

 (R)
Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. was a Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See . He was the Republican nominee for Vice President in the 1960 Presidential election.-Early life:Lodge was born in Nahant,...

 (R)
1961 30R, 3D 112R, 39D Peter A. Garland
Peter A. Garland
Peter Adams Garland was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Garland attended Saco public schools, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut....

 (R)
Stanley R. Tupper
Stanley R. Tupper
Stanley Roger Tupper was a U.S. Representative from Maine. Born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Tupper was educated in Boothbay Harbor public schools, Hebron Academy, Hebron, Maine. Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, and LaSalle Extension University, Chicago, Illinois.He served in the United...

 (R)
1962
1963 29R, 5D 110R, 41D Stanley R. Tupper (R) Clifford McIntire (R) districts eliminated
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

 and Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. , served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and...

 (D)
1965 29D, 5R 81D, 70R William Hathaway
William Hathaway
William Dodd Hathaway is an American Democratic Party politician from Maine.He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served in World War II in the Army Air Corps, where he was shot down while bombing the Ploesti, Romania...

 (D)
1966
1967 Kenneth M. Curtis
Kenneth M. Curtis
Kenneth Merwin Curtis is an American lawyer and former politician. He is currently a principal in the law firm of Curtis Thaxter Stevens Broder & Micoleau Limited Liability Company, P.A....

 (D)
24R, 10D 94R, 57D Peter N. Kyros
Peter N. Kyros
Peter Nicholas Kyros was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Portland, Maine, Kyros attended the public schools in Portland, Maine, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....

 (D)
1968 Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie (D)
1969 18R, 14D 85R, 66D
1970
1971 18R, 14D 80R, 71D
1972 Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew
Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland...

 (R)
1973 22R, 11D 79R, 72D William Hathaway (D) William Cohen
William Cohen
William Sebastian Cohen is an author and American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as Secretary of Defense under Democratic President Bill Clinton.-Early life and education:...

 (R)
1974
1975 James Longley
James Longley
James Longley is the name of:*James Longley , American documentary filmmaker*James B. Longley , former Governor of Maine*James B. Longley, Jr. , former U.S. Congressman from Maine...

 (I)
19R, 15D 91D, 51R, 1I David F. Emery
David F. Emery
David Farnham "Dave" Emery is a former Republican U.S. Representative from Maine. Emery grew up in Rockland before attending college at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he received a BS in electronics engineering in 1970...

 (R)
1976 Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

 and Bob Dole
Bob Dole
Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole is an American attorney and politician. Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and was Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1987 and in 1995 and 1996...

 (R)
1977 21R, 12D 88D, 63R
1978
1979 Joseph E. Brennan (D) 19R, 13D, 1I 77D, 73R, 1I William Cohen (R) Olympia Snowe
Olympia Snowe
Olympia Jean Snowe , née Bouchles, is the senior United States Senator from Maine and a member of the Republican Party. Snowe has become widely known for her ability to influence the outcome of close votes, including whether to end filibusters. She and her fellow Senator from Maine, Susan Collins,...

 (R)
1980 George Mitchell
George J. Mitchell
George John Mitchell, Jr., is the former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995...

 (D)
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

 and George H.W. Bush (R)
1981 17R, 16D 84D, 67R
1982
1983 23D, 10R 93D, 58R John R. McKernan, Jr.
John R. McKernan, Jr.
John Rettie "Jock" McKernan, Jr. is an American politician who served two terms as the 71st Governor of Maine, from 1987 to 1995....

 (R)
1984
1985 24D, 11R 85D, 66R
1986
1987 John R. McKernan, Jr. (R) 20D, 15R 87D, 63R, 1I Joseph E. Brennan (D)
1988 George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle
Dan Quayle
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush . He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana....

 (R)
1989 20D, 15R 98D, 53R
1990
1991 21D, 14R 97D, 54R Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews (politician)
Thomas Hiram Andrews , was a politician from Maine and a Democrat.A 1976 graduate of Bowdoin College, Andrews served in the Maine House of Representatives and Maine State Senate before being elected to two terms in the U.S...

 (D)
1992 Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 and Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

 (D)
1993 20D, 15R 91D, 58R, 2I
1994
1995 Angus King
Angus King
Angus S. King, Jr. served two terms as the 72nd Governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003. Since 2004, King has been a distinguished lecturer at Bowdoin College teaching a course called "Leaders and Leadership"; in the fall of 2009, he also taught a similar course at Bates College...

 (I)
18R, 16D, 1I 75D, 75R, 1I Olympia Snowe (R) James B. Longley, Jr.
James B. Longley, Jr.
James B. "Jim" Longley, Jr. is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a Republican politician from Maine....

 (R)
John Baldacci
John Baldacci
John Elias Baldacci is an American politician who served as the 73rd Governor of the U.S. state of Maine from 2003 until 2011. A Democrat, he also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003....

 (D)
1996
1997 19D, 15R, 1I 81D, 69R, 1I Susan Collins
Susan Collins
Susan Margaret Collins is the junior United States Senator from Maine and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the Senate in 1996, she is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...

 (R)
Tom Allen
Tom Allen
Thomas Hodge "Tom" Allen is a former member of the United States House of Representatives representing , and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2008 against Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins. Allen lost to Collins .Allen was first elected in 1996, defeating Republican...

 (D)
1998
1999 19D, 15R, 1I 79D, 71R, 1I
2000 Al Gore and Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Currently an independent, he remains closely affiliated with the party.Born in Stamford, Connecticut,...

 (D)
2001 17R, 17D, 1I 88D, 62, 1I
2002
2003 John Baldacci (D) 18D, 17R 82D, 66R, 2I, 1G Mike Michaud
Mike Michaud
Michael Herman Michaud is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district comprises nearly 80% of the state by area and includes the cities of Lewiston, Auburn, Bangor, and Presque Isle...

 (D)
2004 John Kerry
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...

 and John Edwards
John Edwards
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in...

 (D)
2005 19D, 16R 74D, 73R, 3I, 1G
2006
2007 18D, 17R 90D, 59R, 2I
2008 Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 and Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...

 (D)
2009 20D, 15R 95D, 55R, 1I Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree
Rochelle M. "Chellie" Pingree is an American politician. She is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing since 2009. The district includes most of the southern part of the state, including Portland and Augusta.Pingree was a member of the Maine Senate from...

 (D)
2010
2011 Paul LePage
Paul LePage
Paul Richard LePage is an American businessman and politician who is serving as the 74th and current Governor of Maine. A Republican, he was previously mayor of Waterville from 2003 to 2011, and was a city councilor before that...

 (R)
20R, 14D, 1I 78R, 72D, 1I
2012
YearGovernorState Senate
Maine Senate
The Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. The Senate currently consists of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, though the Maine Constitution allows for "an odd number of Senators, not less than...

State House
Maine House of Representatives
The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 members representing an equal amount of districts across the state. Each voting member of the House represents around 8,450 citizens of the state...

U.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class II)U.S. House District 1
Maine's 1st congressional district
Maine's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Maine. The geographically smaller of the two congressional districts in the state, the district covers the southern coastal area of the state. The district consists of all of Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc,...

U.S. House District 2
Maine's 2nd congressional district
Maine's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Maine. Covering , it comprises nearly 80% of the state. It is the largest district east of the Mississippi River and the 24th-largest overall. The district consists of all of the state north of the Portland and...

Former U.S. House Districts|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

Executive office|State Legislature
Maine Legislature
The Maine Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. It is a bicameral body composed of the lower house Maine House of Representatives and the upper house Maine Senate...

|United States Congress
United States Congressional Delegations from Maine
These are tables of congressional delegations from Maine to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Maine became a state on March 15, 1820.-United States Senate:-House of Representatives:-List of representatives:...


See also

  • Law and government in Maine
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