List of United States Political Families (P) - The Peters of Maine

The Peters of Maine

  • John A. Peters (1822–1904), Maine State Senator 1862-1863, Maine State Representative 1864, Attorney General of Maine 1864-1866, U.S. Representative from Maine 1867-1873, Judge of the Maine Supreme Court 1873-1883. Uncle of John A. Peters.
    • John A. Peters (1864–1953), Judge of Ellsworth, Maine Municipal Court 1896-1908; Maine State Representative 1909 1911 1913; U.S. Representative from Maine 1913-1922; Judge of U.S. District Court of Maine 1922-1947; delegate to the Republican National Convention 1916. Nephew of John A. Peters.

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    The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.
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