Career in Maine
After the war, he was instrumental in building up the Democratic Party in Maine. Maine had traditionally been a strongly Republican state, notable for being, with Vermont, one of the only two states that Alf Landon carried against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.
Muskie ran in the 1947 election to become mayor of Waterville, Maine, but was unsuccessful. He served in the Maine House of Representatives before being elected governor in 1954.
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