John William Warner III was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009. Warner served as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1999 to 2001,and again from 2003 to 2007. He also served as the Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee from 1995 to 1999.
The Gulf of Maine is a large gulf of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of North America. It is bounded by Cape Cod at the eastern tip of Massachusetts in the southwest and by Cape Sable Island at the southern tip of Nova Scotia in the northeast. The gulf includes the entire coastlines of the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Maine,as well as Massachusetts north of Cape Cod,and the southern and western coastlines of the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,respectively.
Fort Knox,now Fort Knox State Park or Fort Knox State Historic Site,is located on the western bank of the Penobscot River in the town of Prospect,Maine,about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the mouth of the river. Built between 1844 and 1869,it was the first fort in Maine built entirely of granite;most previous forts used wood,earth,and stone. It is named after Major General Henry Knox,the first U.S. Secretary of War and Commander of Artillery during the American Revolutionary War,who at the end of his life lived not far away in Thomaston. As a virtually intact example of a mid-19th century granite coastal fortification,it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 and declared a National Historic Landmark on December 30,1970. Fort Knox also serves as the entry site for the observation tower of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge that opened to the public in 2007.
Chellie MariePingree is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maine's 1st congressional district since 2009. Her district includes most of the southern part of the state,including Portland and Augusta.
David Farnham Emery is an American politician from Maine. He served four terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from 1975 to 1983.
The Arizona State Senate is part of the Arizona Legislature,the state legislature of the US state of Arizona. The Senate consists of 30 members each representing an average of 219,859 constituents. Members serve two-year terms with term limits that limit Senators to a maximum four consecutive terms before requiring a one-term respite prior to running again. Members of the Republican Party are currently the majority in the Senate. There are currently 16 women serving in the Senate after Raquel Terán was appointed,making it the first time a majority of the body was composed of female members.
Leigh Ingalls Saufley is the dean of the University of Maine School of Law and former Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Saufley grew up in South Portland,Maine,and attended the University of Maine and the University of Maine School of Law. She was first appointed to the Maine District Court in 1990,and to the Supreme Judicial Court in 1997. She was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in 2001,becoming both Maine's first woman and the youngest person ever to serve in the position. She served as chief justice until 2020 when she was hired as the eighth Dean of the University of Maine School of Law.
Brian Kelsey is an American politician and former member of the Tennessee State Senate. A member of the Republican party,he was elected to represent District 31,which encompassed the following parts of Shelby County:Cordova,East Memphis,and Germantown.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Maine took place on November 4,2014. Incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins,who had served in the position since 1997,won reelection to a fourth term in office with 68% of the vote. The primary elections were held on June 10,2014. As of 2024,this was the last time the Republican candidate won the counties of Cumberland and Knox.
Joe Baldacci is an American attorney and Democratic politician from Maine. Baldacci serves in the Maine Senate representing District 9,serving Bangor and Hermon. He grew up in Bangor and attended the University of Maine and the University of Maine School of Law. Following law school,Baldacci returned to Bangor and opened a law practice,serving on the Bangor City Council beginning in 1996. Baldacci served 12 years on the Council,including two terms as chair/mayor,before being elected to the Maine Senate in 2020. He also made a brief run for Maine's 2nd congressional district seat in 2016 but dropped out before the Democratic primary in June.
James F. Dill is an American entomologist,politician and professor from Maine. A Democrat,Dill serves Maine House of Representatives District 26,comprising Bradley,the Penobscot Nation Voting District,and Old Town. Dill was first elected to the Maine Legislature in 2010 when he represented Maine House District 14 for two terms before running for the Senate District 5 in 2014. He completed his fourth term in the Maine Senate in 2022. Dill works as the pest management specialist for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Maine. He is considered one of the foremost experts on insect pests in Maine and one of the pioneers of integrated pest management (IPM) in the state.
Robert Lee Hall III,known as Bob Hall,is an American politician who is a Republican member of the Texas State Senate. Aligned with the Tea Party movement,he succeeded fellow Republican Bob Deuell,whom he unseated by three hundred votes in the Republican runoff election held on May 27,2014.
Chloe Sophia Maxmin is an American Democratic politician and environmental activist who served as the Maine State Senator for District 13. A resident of Nobleboro,she was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in November 2018 and to the Maine Senate in November 2020,defeating incumbent Minority Leader Dana Dow. Maxmin was the first Democrat ever to represent Maine House District 88,the youngest member of the 129th Maine Legislature,and is the youngest female state senator in Maine's history.
Louis Luchini is an American Democratic politician and former professional long-distance runner from Maine. Luchini served in the Maine Senate representing District 7,Hancock County from 2018 to 2022. Luchini was born and raised in Ellsworth,Maine and began running competitively in middle school. He was a state champion runner at Ellsworth High School and continued to Stanford University where he earned a degree in human biology and was an all-American runner. Luchini graduated from Stanford in 2004 and signed a contract with Nike to run professionally,also participating in the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2004 and 2008. He returned to Maine in 2009,joined the cross-country coaching staff at Ellsworth High School and ran for the Maine House of Representatives in 2010. Luchini served four terms in the Maine House before running successfully for the Senate in 2018. In 2020,Luchini was re-elected to Senate District 7 for a second two-year term. In January 2022,he resigned from the Senate to accept a job in the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Glenn "Chip" Curry is an American Democratic politician and youth advocate currently serving as the Maine State Senator for District 11. He has represented Waldo County in the State Senate since 2020 and is the student services coordinator at the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA)'s Rockland center. Curry earned an MS in College Student Personnel Services from Miami University in 1994 and worked in student services at Unity College and the University of Southern Maine (USM)'s Muskie School of Public Service before joining UMA.
Joseph Rafferty Jr. is an American educator,high school gridiron football coach,and Democratic politician from Maine. Rafferty has been the head coach of the Kennebunk High School Rams football team since 1979 and is currently serving his first term in the Maine Senate representing District 34,which consists of Kennebunk,Wells,Acton,Lebanon,North Berwick,and part of Berwick. Rafferty was born in 1955 and grew up in Woburn,Massachusetts. He attended Springfield College,graduated in 1977 and began teaching and coaching at Kennebunk High School in 1978. As an educator,he was active in the teachers' unions and helped negotiate contracts on their behalf. He retired from full-time teaching in 2018 but continues to coach football. Rafferty was elected to the Maine Senate in 2020 and is currently serving his first term.
Genevieve Kurilec McDonald is an American Democratic politician,lobster boat captain,and fisheries advocate from Maine. In 2018,she was the first female commercial fisherman to be elected to the Maine House of Representatives. McDonald represented House District #134:Cranberry Isles,Deer Isle,Frenchboro,Isle au Haut,North Haven,Southwest Harbor,Stonington,Swan's Island,Tremont,Vinalhaven,and Marshall Island. In 2013,she successfully led a social media campaign to prompt fishing gear producer Grundéns to produce commercial fishing gear for women. In June 2014,McDonald became the first woman to serve on the Maine Department of Marine Resources Lobster Advisory Council (LAC). McDonald resigned her House seat effective on May 10,2022,the day after the last Legislative Day of the Second Regular Session of the 130th Maine Legislature.
The 2022 Maine State Senate election was held on Tuesday,November 8,2022,with the primary election using instant-runoff voting being held on June 14,2022,to elect the 131st Maine Senate. Voters in all 35 districts of the Maine State Senate elected elect their state senators. The elections coincided with the elections for governor,U.S. House and the Maine House of Representatives. Republicans needed to gain five seats to win control of the chamber.
Michael Tipping is an American writer,activist,and politician from Maine. A Democrat,Tipping serves in the Maine State Senate representing District 8. He grew up in Orono,Maine and attended Orono High School and Dalhousie University,working as a progressive activist on several statewide referendum questions and for an initiative to clean mercury pollution from the Penobscot River. Tipping announced his run for the Maine Senate in September 2021,and was elected in November of 2022 to his first term.
Anne "Pinny" Beebe-Center is an American politician from Maine. She serves in the Maine State Senate representing District 12,comprising Knox County. Beebe-Center was born in Salem,Massachusetts and moved with her family throughout the East Coast of the United States before settling in Maine following college. She worked for the State of Maine and for various education and nonprofit organizations,first seeking public office in 2002 when she was elected commissioner of Knox County. Beebe-Center served three terms in the Maine House of Representatives beginning in 2015 before running for the Maine Senate in 2022. She is currently serving her first term.
