List of Bates College People - Government

Government

  • Holman S. Melcher, attended from 1858–62, Civil War hero at the Battle of Gettysburg with the 20th Maine, mayor of Portland Maine (1889–90)
  • John P. Swasey, 1857–1859, U.S. Representative from Maine (1908–1911)
  • John T. Abbott, Class of 1871, U.S. Minister to Colombia (1889)
  • George Smith, Class of 1873, three time president of the Massachusetts Senate
  • Henry Chandler, Class of 1874, African American politician, state senator from Florida (1880–1884) link
  • Albert Spear, Class of 1875, President of the Maine Senate, Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
  • Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Class of 1881 (transferred), U.S. Representative 1911-1917, Mayor of Lewiston
  • Louis Penick Clinton (Lewis Clinton), Class of 1897 (Divinity School), Prince Somayou of the Bassa tribe of West Africa
  • Carl E. Milliken, Class of 1897, Governor of Maine (1917–1921)
  • Sawin Millett, Maine State Representative and multiple time member of Maine cabinet
  • Carroll L. Beedy, Class of 1903, U.S. Representative from Maine (1921–1935)
  • Charles R. Clason, Class of 1911, Rhodes Scholar, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1937–1949)
  • Donald B. Partridge, Class of 1914, U.S. Representative from Maine (1931–1933)
  • Edmund S. Muskie, Class of 1936, Governor of Maine (1955–1959), U.S. Senator from Maine (1959–1980) and U.S. Secretary of State (1980–1981)
  • Frank M. Coffin, Class of 1940, U.S. Representative from Maine (1957–1961)
  • Leo Ryan, attended 1943 for Naval (V-12) training during World War II, U.S. Representative from California (1973–1978), killed in the Jonestown Massacre
  • Robert F. Kennedy, attended 1944-1945 for Naval (V-12) training during World War II, U.S. Attorney General (1961–1964), U.S. Senator from New York (1965–1968)
  • Constance Berry Newman, Class of 1956, United States Assistant Secretary of State (2004–2005), assistant administrator of USAID, under secretary of Smithsonian Institution, assistant secretary of HUD
  • Thomas P. Carey, Class of 1973, former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism section
  • Robert Goodlatte, Class of 1974, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1993- )

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Famous quotes containing the word government:

    “I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—”That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life—this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.”
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    “Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)