Frederic Hale Parkhurst (November 5, 1864 in Bangor, Maine – January 31, 1921 in Augusta, Maine) is a former Maine Republican politician.
Parkhurst ran for governor in 1920 and won the general election with 65% of the Maine citizens votes. He took office as Maine's 52nd Governor on January 5, 1921, collapsed on his first day of office, and died shortly thereafter of pneumonia on January 31, 1921. His 26 days as Governor make his term one of the shortest in Maine history; the record belongs to Nathaniel Haskell, who served but one day in 1953.
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“It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,—let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.”
—Sarah Josepha Buell Hale 1788–1879, U.S. novelist, poet and women’s magazine editor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 36-40 (December 1828)