List of Governors of Maine - Other High Offices Held

Other High Offices Held

Twenty-four of Maine's governors have served higher federal offices. Seventeen have represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives, while two early in the state's history represented Massachusetts. There were also nine governors who served in the U.S. Senate, five (marked with *) resigning their office as governor to enter the Senate. One governor, Hannibal Hamlin, resigned his seat in the Senate to be governor (marked with †), then resigned as governor the next month to rejoin the Senate. Hamlin was also one of three governors to be ambassadors, and the only one to be Vice President of the United States. Two other governors served in the Cabinet.

Governor Gubernatorial term U.S. House U.S. Senate Other offices held Source
William D. Williamson 1821 H —
Albion K. Parris 1822–1827 — S* U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Enoch Lincoln 1827–1829 H — U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Robert P. Dunlap 1834–1838 H —
John Fairfield 1839–1841,
1842–1843		 H S*
Edward Kavanagh 1843–1844 H —
Hugh J. Anderson 1844–1847 H —
Anson Morrill 1858–1861 H —
Hannibal Hamlin 1857 H S†* U.S. Minister to Spain, Vice President of the United States
Lot M. Morrill 1858–1861 — S U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Sidney Perham 1871–1874 H —
Nelson Dingley, Jr. 1874–1876 H —
Harris M. Plaisted 1881–1883 H —
Edwin C. Burleigh 1889–1893 H S
Llewellyn Powers 1897–1901 H —
Bert M. Fernald 1909–1911 — S
Owen Brewster 1925–1929 H S
Horace A. Hildreth 1945–1949 — — U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
Frederick G. Payne 1949–1952 — S*
Edmund Muskie 1955–1959 — S* U.S. Secretary of State
Kenneth M. Curtis 1967–1974 — — U.S. Ambassador to Canada
Joseph E. Brennan 1979–1987 H —
John R. McKernan, Jr. 1987–1995 H —
John Baldacci 2003–2011 H —

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