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- ↑ "Legislators Biographical Search". Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library. Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ↑ "Maine State Auditors, 1907-". Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ↑ "Clean Sweep Puts Maine Again in Republican Fold" (PDF). New York Times . Augusta, Me. September 11, 1916. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
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