Other High Offices Held
Twenty-four of Maine's governors have served higher federal offices. Seventeen have represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives, while two early in the state's history represented Massachusetts. There were also nine governors who served in the U.S. Senate, five (marked with *) resigning their office as governor to enter the Senate. One governor, Hannibal Hamlin, resigned his seat in the Senate to be governor (marked with †), then resigned as governor the next month to rejoin the Senate. Hamlin was also one of three governors to be ambassadors, and the only one to be Vice President of the United States. Two other governors served in the Cabinet.
| Governor | Gubernatorial term | U.S. House | U.S. Senate | Other offices held | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William D. Williamson | 1821 | H | — | ||
| Albion K. Parris | 1822–1827 | — | S* | U.S. Representative from Massachusetts | |
| Enoch Lincoln | 1827–1829 | H | — | U.S. Representative from Massachusetts | |
| Robert P. Dunlap | 1834–1838 | H | — | ||
| John Fairfield | 1839–1841, 1842–1843 |
H | S* | ||
| Edward Kavanagh | 1843–1844 | H | — | ||
| Hugh J. Anderson | 1844–1847 | H | — | ||
| Anson Morrill | 1858–1861 | H | — | ||
| Hannibal Hamlin | 1857 | H | S†* | U.S. Minister to Spain, Vice President of the United States | |
| Lot M. Morrill | 1858–1861 | — | S | U.S. Secretary of the Treasury | |
| Sidney Perham | 1871–1874 | H | — | ||
| Nelson Dingley, Jr. | 1874–1876 | H | — | ||
| Harris M. Plaisted | 1881–1883 | H | — | ||
| Edwin C. Burleigh | 1889–1893 | H | S | ||
| Llewellyn Powers | 1897–1901 | H | — | ||
| Bert M. Fernald | 1909–1911 | — | S | ||
| Owen Brewster | 1925–1929 | H | S | ||
| Horace A. Hildreth | 1945–1949 | — | — | U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan | |
| Frederick G. Payne | 1949–1952 | — | S* | ||
| Edmund Muskie | 1955–1959 | — | S* | U.S. Secretary of State | |
| Kenneth M. Curtis | 1967–1974 | — | — | U.S. Ambassador to Canada | |
| Joseph E. Brennan | 1979–1987 | H | — | ||
| John R. McKernan, Jr. | 1987–1995 | H | — | ||
| John Baldacci | 2003–2011 | H | — |
Read more about this topic: List Of Governors Of Maine
Famous quotes containing the words high, offices and/or held:
“... it is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws of the South ...”
—Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)
“The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, ‘tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Then moved my Fingers off
As cautiously as Glass
And held my ears, and like a Thief
Fled gasping from the House—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)