Michael Herman Michaud is an American businessman and politician from Maine. Michaud served as the U.S. representative for Maine's 2nd congressional district from 2003 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The primarily rural district comprises nearly 80% of the state by area and includes the cities of Lewiston,Auburn,Bangor,Presque Isle,and Ellsworth. It is the largest Congressional district by area east of the Mississippi River.
Joseph Edward Brennan was an American lawyer and politician from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987 and in the United States House of Representatives for Maine's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1991. Brennan was a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission during the Clinton,George W. Bush,and Obama administrations.
Burton Melvin Cross was an American Republican businessman and politician. Cross was Maine's 61st and 63rd Governor,though his two terms were separated by just 25 hours.
The Maine Republican Party is an affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Maine. It was founded in Strong,Maine,on August 7,1854. The party currently does not control the governor's office or either chamber of the Maine Legislature,nor either of Maine's two U.S. House. The only federal elected office that the party controls is one of Maine's two U.S. Senate seats,currently held by Susan Collins.
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.
John L. Martin is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Martin has been in Maine politics since his first election to the Maine House of Representatives in 1964,and is sometimes called "The Earl of Eagle Lake" as a result. With his election in 2014,he is the longest serving legislator in Maine history.
Janet Trafton Mills is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 75th governor of Maine since January 2019. She previously served as the Maine Attorney General on two occasions.
The governor of Maine is the head of government of the U.S. state of Maine. Before Maine was admitted to the Union in 1820,Maine was part of Massachusetts and the governor of Massachusetts was chief executive.
Paul Richard LePage is an American businessman and politician who served as the 74th governor of Maine from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as the mayor of Waterville,Maine,from 2004 to 2011 and as a city councilor for Waterville from 1998 to 2002.
Dale McCormick is an American politician from the state of Maine who currently serves on the city council of Augusta. McCormick was the first openly gay member of the Maine State Legislature,having been elected in 1990 to the first of three terms in the Maine Senate. A Democrat,she represented a largely rural district that included her then-residence in Hallowell. After narrowly losing a congressional bid,she served as state treasurer and as director of the Maine State Housing Authority.
Michael Charles Green is the executive commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). He is the former District Attorney for Monroe County,New York. During 2011,he was a federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Western District of New York,and although he was reported out of committee to the floor of the United States Senate,Green never received a floor vote,and President Obama did not renominate him in the next session of Congress.
Troy Dale Jackson is an American logger and politician from Allagash,Maine who served as president of the Maine Senate. Jackson represents Senate District 1,representing northern Aroostook County,including the towns of Fort Kent,Madawaska and Caribou. Jackson served as Senate President from 2018 to 2024.
William R. Stokes is an American politician and former Mayor of Augusta,the capital city of the U.S. state of Maine. Stokes became Mayor of Augusta on June 16,2011,when his predecessor,former Mayor Roger Katz,resigned from office to take a seat in the Maine Senate. Stokes is a member of the Democratic Party.
The 2014 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the governor of Maine. Incumbent Republican governor Paul LePage won re-election to a second term,defeating Democratic nominee Mike Michaud,the U.S. representative from Maine's 2nd congressional district,and independent Eliot Cutler,an attorney and second-place finisher from the 2010 gubernatorial election. This is currently the most recent election that Maine elected a Republican governor. Primary elections were held on June 10,2014.
Neria R. Douglass is an American attorney and politician who served as State Treasurer of Maine. Priorly,she served as State Auditor and also represented Auburn in the Maine Senate. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Kenneth Wade Fredette is a former member of the Maine House of Representatives.
Charles M. Webster is an American politician from Maine. Webster,a Republican from Farmington,served 14 years in the Maine Legislature,including four in the Maine House of Representatives (1980–1984) and ten in the Maine Senate (1984–1994). In the Senate,Webster served one term (1986–1988) as Assistant Minority Leader and two terms (1988–1992) as Minority Leader.
Charles Langmaid Cragin III is an American attorney and politician from Maine. He was the Republican nominee for governor of Maine in 1982,losing in a landslide to Democratic incumbent Gov. Joseph E. Brennan. Afterwards,Cragin was a Republican National Committee member from Maine from 1983 to 1990,and acting U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in 2000.
Lance Edward Walker is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine. He was formerly a justice of the Maine Superior Court.
Andrew Marcus Horton is an American lawyer who has served an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court since 2020.
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