Waterville is a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States, on the west bank of the Kennebec River. A college town, the city is home to Colby College, a NESCAC college, and Thomas College. It is also home to the headquarters of HealthReach Community Health Centers.
Edmund Sixtus Muskie was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, and a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1968 presidential election.
Swan Point Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Established in 1846 on a 60-acre (0.24 km2) plot of land, it has approximately 40,000 interments.
The Maine Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Maine.
Clinton Amos Clauson was an American politician who served as the 66th governor of Maine from January 1959 until his death in December of that year. A Democrat, Clauson previously held office in Waterville, Maine, where he practiced chiropractic, including serving as the 35th mayor of Waterville from 1956 to 1957.
C. F. Hathaway Company was a manufacturer of shirts for men and boys, located in Waterville, Maine.
Jane Frances Muskie was an American civic leader and writer who, as the wife of Edmund Muskie, served as First Lady of Maine from 1955 to 1959. She was an active campaigner for her husband, supporting his political career on both state and national levels while he served in the Maine House of Representatives, as Governor of Maine, as a United States senator, and as Secretary of State. During the 1972 United States presidential election, she was accused in the Canuck letter, a forged letter reportedly written by Donald Segretti and Ken W. Clawson that was published by William Loeb III in the Manchester Union Leader, of being "racially intolerant", a "drunkard", and using colorful language on the campaign trail. Her husband publicly rebuked the letter, calling Loeb a "gutless coward" in an emotional display that ultimately lost him the 1972 Democratic Presidential Primary. Muskie later spoke about the incident with her husband in an interview with The New York Times in 1986, saying that "now it's quite acceptable for a man to show his emotions.. President Reagan does it all the time."
David George Lemoine is an American politician from Maine. Lemoine, a Democrat served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1998 to 2004 prior to serving as the State Treasurer of Maine from 2005 to 2010.
The Coburn Classical Institute was a college preparatory school in Waterville, Maine, which operated from 1828–1970.
The 1982 United States Senate election in Maine took place on November 2, 1982. Edmund Muskie, elected in the 1976 Senate election, resigned his seat in 1980 to become Secretary of State. Appointed incumbent Democratic senator George J. Mitchell won election to a full six-year term, defeating Congressman David F. Emery.
