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Telephone and Telegraph Politicians in Maine

Carl Elias Milliken (1877-1961) — also known as Carl E. Milliken — of Island Falls, Aroostook County, Maine. Born in Pittsfield, Somerset County, Maine, July 13, 1877. Republican. Lumber manufacturer; president, Katahdin Farmers Telephone Company; member of Maine state house of representatives, 1905-08; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1908; member of Maine state senate, 1909-14; Governor of Maine, 1917-21. Baptist. Died in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., May 1, 1961 (age 83 years, 292 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Phoebe Ellen (Knowlton) Milliken and Charles Arthur Milliken; married, July 31, 1901, to Emma Vivian Chase; third cousin once removed of Fred Melville Libby.   Political family: Libby-Felt family of Maine (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also National Governors Association biography   Image source: Library of Congress Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (1806-1876) — of Maine. Born in Brentwood, Rockingham County, N.H., November 23, 1806. Democrat. Newspaper editor; member of Maine state house of representatives, 1831; member of Maine state senate, 1833; U.S. Representative from Maine, 1833-39 (2nd District 1833-35, 8th District 1835-37, 6th District 1837-39); early promoter and financial backer of the electric telegraph. Died in Deering (now part of Portland), Cumberland County, Maine, October 14, 1876 (age 69 years, 326 days). Original interment in private or family graveyard; re-entombed at Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article   Image source: Maine State Archives/Maine Historical Society   Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) — also known as Margaret Chase — of Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine. Born in Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine, December 14, 1897. Republican. School teacher; business executive for Maine Telephone & Telegraph Co., for a country newspaper, and for the Cummings Woolen Co.; member of Maine Republican State Committee, 1930-36; U.S. Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1940-49; U.S. Senator from Maine, 1949-73; defeated, 1972; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1964. Female. Inducted, National Women's Hall of Fame, 1973; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1989. Died May 29, 1995 (age 97 years, 166 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Margaret Chase Smith Library, Skowhegan, Maine.   Relatives: Daughter of George Emery Chase and Carrie (Murray) Chase; married, May 14, 1930, to Clyde Harold Smith.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — National Women's Hall of Fame   Books about Margaret Chase Smith: Janann Sherman, No Place for a Woman : A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith — Eric R. Crouse, An American Stand: Senator Margaret Chase Smith and the Communist Menace, 1948-1972

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