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Maine: U.S. Senators

U.S. Senators from Maine, 1820-2019 (May be incomplete!)
John Holmes 1820-27 John Chandler 1820-29 Albion K. Parris 1827-28 John Holmes 1829-33 Peleg Sprague 1829-35 Ether Shepley 1833-36 John Ruggles 1835-41 Judah Dana 1836-37 Reuel Williams 1837-43 George Evans 1841-47 John Fairfield 1843-47 James Ware Bradbury 1847-53 Wyman B. S. Moor 1848 Hannibal Hamlin 1848-57 William Pitt Fessenden 1854-64 Amos Nourse 1857 Hannibal Hamlin 1857-61 Lot M. Morrill 1861-69 Nathan Allen Farwell 1864-65 William Pitt Fessenden 1865-69 Hannibal Hamlin 1869-81 Lot M. Morrill 1869-76 James G. Blaine 1876-81 Eugene Hale 1881-1911 William P. Frye 1881-1911 Charles F. Johnson 1911-17 Obadiah Gardner 1911-13 Edwin C. Burleigh 1913-16 Bert M. Fernald 1916-26 Frederick Hale 1917-41 Arthur R. Gould 1926-31 Wallace H. White, Jr. 1931-49 Owen Brewster 1941-52 Margaret Chase Smith 1949-73 Frederick G. Payne 1953-59 Edmund S. Muskie 1959-80 William D. Hathaway 1973-79 William S. Cohen 1979-97 George J. Mitchell 1980-95 Olympia J. Snowe 1995- Susan M. Collins 1997- Angus S. King 2013-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1828 Aug 26: Albion K. Parris, resigned.
  • 1847 Dec 24: John Fairfield, died in office.
  • 1869 Sep 8: William Pitt Fessenden, died in office.
  • 1911 Aug 8: William P. Frye, died in office.
  • 1916 Jun 16: Edwin C. Burleigh, died in office.
  • 1916 Sep 11: Frederick Hale (Rep), elected; Charles F. Johnson (Dem), defeated; James F. Carey (Socialist), defeated; Arthur C. Jackson (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1916 Sep 11: Bert M. Fernald (Rep), elected; Kenneth C. Sills (Dem), defeated; Frederick A. Shepherd (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1918 Sep 9: Bert M. Fernald (Rep), elected; Elmer E. Newbert (Dem), defeated.
  • 1922 Sep 11: Frederick Hale (Rep), elected; Oakley C. Curtis (Dem), defeated.
  • 1924 Sep 8: Bert M. Fernald (Rep), elected; Fulton J. Redman (Dem), defeated.
  • 1926 Aug 23: Bert M. Fernald, died in office.
  • 1926 Sep 13: Arthur R. Gould (Rep), elected; Fulton J. Redman (Dem), defeated.
  • 1928 Sep 10: Frederick Hale (Rep), elected; Herbert E. Holmes (Dem), defeated.
  • 1930 Sep 8: Wallace H. White, Jr. (Rep), elected; Frank H. Haskell (Dem), defeated.
  • 1934 Sep 10: Frederick Hale (Rep), elected; F. Harold Dubord (Dem), defeated; Hans Nelson (Communist), defeated.
  • 1936 Sep 14: Wallace H. White, Jr. (Rep), elected; Louis J. Brann (Dem), defeated.
  • 1940 Sep 9: Owen Brewster (Rep), elected; Louis J. Brann (Dem), defeated; Lewis Gordon (Communist), defeated.
  • 1942 Sep 14: Wallace H. White, Jr. (Rep), elected; Fulton J. Redman (Dem), defeated.
  • 1946 Sep 9: Owen Brewster (Rep), elected; Peter M. MacDonald (Dem), defeated.
  • 1948 Sep 13: Margaret Chase Smith (Rep), elected; Adrian H. Scolten (Dem), defeated.
  • 1952 Sep 8: Frederick G. Payne (Rep), elected; Roger P. Dube (Dem), defeated; Earl S. Grant (Independent Democratic), defeated.
  • 1952 Dec 31: Owen Brewster, resigned.
  • 1954 Sep 13: Margaret Chase Smith (Rep), elected; Paul A. Fullam (Dem), defeated.
  • 1958 Sep 8: Edmund S. Muskie (Dem), elected; Frederick G. Payne (Rep), defeated.
  • 1960 Nov 8: Margaret Chase Smith (Rep), elected; Lucia M. Cormier (Dem), defeated.
  • 1964 Nov 3: Edmund S. Muskie (Dem), elected; Clifford G. McIntire (Rep), defeated.
  • 1966 Nov 8: Margaret Chase Smith (Rep), elected; Elmer H. Violette (Dem), defeated; Neil S. Bishop, defeated.
  • 1970 Nov 3: Edmund S. Muskie (Dem), elected; Neil S. Bishop (Rep), defeated.
  • 1972 Nov 7: William D. Hathaway (Dem), elected; Margaret Chase Smith (Rep), defeated.
  • 1976 Nov 2: Edmund S. Muskie (Dem), elected; Robert A. G. Monks (Rep), defeated.
  • 1978 Nov 7: William S. Cohen (Rep), elected; William D. Hathaway (Dem), defeated; Hayes E. Gahagan (Ind), defeated; John J. Jannace (Ind), defeated; Plato Truman (Ind), defeated.
  • 1982 Nov 2: George J. Mitchell (Dem), elected; David F. Emery (Rep), defeated.
  • 1984 Nov 6: William S. Cohen (Rep), elected; Elizabeth H. Mitchell (Dem), defeated; P. Anne Stoddard (Constitution), defeated.
  • 1988 Nov 8: George J. Mitchell (Dem), elected; Jasper S. Wyman (Rep), defeated.
  • 1990 Nov 6: William S. Cohen (Rep), elected; Neil Rolde (Dem), defeated.
  • 1994 Nov 8: Olympia J. Snowe (Rep), elected; Thomas H. Andrews (Dem), defeated; Plato Truman, defeated.
  • 1996 Nov 5: Susan M. Collins (Rep), elected; Joseph E. Brennan (Dem), defeated; John C. Rensenbrink (Ind), defeated; William P. Clarke (Taxpayers), defeated.
  • 2000 Nov 7: Olympia J. Snowe (Rep), elected; Mark W. Lawrence (Dem), defeated.
  • 2002 Nov 5: Susan M. Collins (Rep), elected; Chellie Pingree (Dem), defeated.
  • 2008 Nov 4: Susan M. Collins (Rep), elected; Tom Allen (Dem), defeated.
  • 2018 Jun 12: Eric Brakey (Rep), nominated.
  • 2018 Nov 6: Eric Brakey (Rep), defeated.
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