Hannibal Hamlin was an American attorney and politician who served as the 15th vice president of the United States from 1861 to 1865,during President Abraham Lincoln's first term. He was the first Republican vice president.
Gardiner is a city in Kennebec County,Maine,United States. The population was 5,961 at the 2020 census. Popular with tourists,Gardiner is noted for its culture and old architecture. Gardiner is a nationally accredited Main Street America community. It is included in the Augusta,Maine micropolitan New England City and Town Area.
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.
William Pierce Frye was an American politician from Maine. A member of the Republican Party,Frye spent most of his political career as a legislator,serving in the Maine House of Representatives and then U.S. House of Representatives,before being elected to the U.S. Senate,where he served for 30 years before dying in office. Frye was a member of the Frye political family,and was the grandfather of Wallace H. White Jr.,and the son of John March Frye. He was also a prominent member of the Peucinian Society tradition.
Charles Russell Clason was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts and an attorney. Clason was born in Gardiner,Maine. He attended Bates College,and received his law degree from Georgetown University. Clason went on to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Kenneth Merwin Curtis is an American attorney,politician,and diplomat from Maine. He was the Secretary of State of Maine from 1965 to 1966,the Governor of Maine from 1967 to 1975,and the United States Ambassador to Canada from 1979 to 1981. Curtis is a member of the Democratic Party and is currently Of Counsel at the Curtis Thaxter law firm in Portland,Maine,which he founded in 1975.
Carl Elias Milliken was an American politician,and business executive. He served as the 51st Governor of Maine,and was the Chief Spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America.
Horace Augustus Hildreth was born 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. from Harvard University in 1928.
Scott Wilson was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Franklin Bachelder Simmons was a prominent American sculptor of the nineteenth century. Three of his statues are in the National Statuary Hall Collection,three of his busts are in the United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection,and his statue of Ulysses S. Grant is in the United States Capitol Rotunda.
Albert Moore Spear was the Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and President of the Maine Senate.
Franklin Muzzy was an American politician and businessman from Maine.
Jesse Arthur Clason was an American physician from Neosho,Wisconsin who served a single term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Dodge County;he was elected as a Gold Democrat.
The Brooks Quimby Debate Council (BQDC) is a debate society in Lewiston,Maine,primarily comprising students from Bates College. The society,known for participating in British and American Parliamentary debate styles,competes in the American Parliamentary Debate Association and the World Universities Debating Championship. Notably,it engaged in a debate with Oxford University in 1923,marking Oxford's first debate in the United States.
George Washington Flint was an American educator and academic administrator who served as the second president of Storrs Agricultural College,now the University of Connecticut,from 1898 to 1901.
James Hutchins Baker (1848–1925) was an American academic administrator who served as the president of the University of Colorado from 1892 to 1914.
Walter Eugene Ranger was an American academic administrator who served as the president of Rhode Island College in Rhode Island and Johnson State College in Vermont. Born in Wilton,Maine he graduated from Bates College (1879) in Lewiston before becoming the principal of Lennox High School in Massachusetts.
Hannibal Emery Hamlin was an American lawyer and politician from Maine. His father,Hannibal Hamlin,served as Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865.
Josiah Manchester Haynes was an American businessperson,lawyer,and politician from Augusta,Maine. Haynes was elected to the Maine Legislature five times and served as Senate President in 1879 and Speaker of the House in 1882—83. In business,he was heavily invested in shipbuilding,railroads,timber,and the commercial ice production.
