LIST OF GOVERNORS OF MAINE

This is a 'list of Governors of Maine' since statehood in 1820.
Before Maine became a state, it was part of Massachusetts; see List of Governors of Massachusetts for this period.

#	Name	Party	Took office	Left office	Notes
1	William King	Democratic-Republican	March 15 1820	May 28 1821	[1]
2	William D. Williamson	Democratic-Republican	May 28 1821	December 5 1821	As president of the state senate, filled unexpired term.[2]
3	Benjamin Ames	Democratic-Republican	December 5 1821	January 2 1822	As speaker of the state house, filled unexpired term.Resigned.
4	Daniel Rose	Democratic-Republican	January 2 1822	January 5 1822
5	Albion K. Parris	Democratic-Republican	January 5 1822	January 3 1827	[3]
6	Enoch Lincoln	Democratic-Republican	January 3 1827	October 8 1829	Died in office.
7	Nathan Cutler	Democratic	October 8 1829	January 6 1830	As president of the state senate, filled unexpired term until his senate term expired.
8	Joshua Hall	Democratic	January 6 1830	February 9 1830
9	Jonathan Hunton	National Republican	February 9 1830	January 5 1831
10	Samuel E. Smith	Democratic	January 5 1831	January 1 1834
11	Robert Dunlap	Democratic	January 1 1834	January 3 1838
12	Edward Kent	Whig	January 19 1838	January 2 1839	[4]
13	John Fairfield	Democratic	January 2 1839	January 12 1841
14	Richard H. Vose	Whig	January 12 1841	January 13 1841
15	Edward Kent	Whig	January 13 1841	January 5 1842
16	John Fairfield	Democratic	January 5 1842	March 7 1843	Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.
17	Edward Kavanaugh	Democratic	March 7 1843	January 1 1844
18	David Dunn	Democratic	January 1 1844	January 3 1844
19	John W. Dana	Democratic	January 3 1844	January 3 1844
20	Hugh J. Anderson	Democratic	January 3 1844	May 12 1847
21	John W. Dana	Democratic	May 12 1847	May 8 1850
22	John Hubbard	Democratic	May 8 1850	January 5 1853
23	William G. Crosby	Whig	January 5 1853	January 3 1855
24	Anson P. Morrill	Republican	January 3 1855	January 2 1856
25	Samuel Wells	Democratic	January 2 1856	January 8 1857
26	Hannibal Hamlin	Republican	January 8 1857	February 25 1857
27	Joseph H. Williams	Republican	February 25 1857	January 6 1858
28	Lot M. Morrill	Republican	January 6 1858	January 2 1861
29	Israel Washburn Jr.	Republican	January 2 1861	January 7 1863
30	Abner Coburn	Republican	January 7 1863	January 6 1864
31	Samuel Cony	Republican	January 6 1864	January 2 1867
32	Joshua L. Chamberlain	Republican	January 2 1867	January 4 1871
33	Sidney Perham	Republican	January 4 1871	January 7 1874
34	Nelson Dingley Jr.	Republican	January 7 1874	January 5 1876
35	Seldon Connor	Republican	January 5 1876	January 8 1879
36	Alonzo Garcelon	Democratic	January 8 1879	January 17 1880
37	Daniel F. Davis	Republican	January 17 1880	January 13 1881
38	Harris M. Plaisted	Democratic	January 13 1881	January 3 1883
39	Frederick Robie	Republican	January 3 1883	January 5 1887
40	Joseph R. Bodwell	Republican	January 5 1887	December 15 1887
41	S. S. Marble	Republican	December 15 1887	January 2 1889
42	Edwin C. Burleigh	Republican	January 2 1889	January 4 1893
42	Henry B. Cleaves	Republican	January 4 1893	January 2 1897
44	Llewellyn Powers	Republican	January 2 1897	January 2 1901
45	John Fremont Hill	Republican	January 2 1901	January 4 1905
46	William T. Cobb	Republican	January 4 1905	January 6 1909
47	Bert M. Fernald	Republican	January 6 1909	January 4 1911
48	Frederick W. Plaisted	Democratic	January 4 1911	January 1 1913
49	William T. Haines	Republican	January 1 1913	January 6 1915
50	Oakley C. Curtis	Democratic	January 6 1915	January 3 1917
51	Carl E. Milliken	Republican	January 3 1917	January 5 1921
52	Frederic H. Parkhurst	Republican	January 5 1921	January 31 1921
53	Percival P. Baxter	Republican	January 31 1921	January 7 1925	As president of the senate, filled unexpired term, and was later elected in his own right.
54	Ralph Owen Brewster	Republican	January 7 1925	January 2 1929
55	William Tudor Gardiner	Republican	January 2 1929	January 4 1933
56	Louis J. Brann	Democratic	January 4 1933	January 6 1937
57	Lewis O. Barrows	Republican	January 6 1937	January 1 1941
58	Sumner Sewall	Republican	January 1 1941	January 3 1945
59	Horace A. Hildreth	Republican	January 3 1945	January 5 1949
60	Frederick G. Payne	Republican	January 5 1949	December 24 1952
61	Burton M. Cross	Republican	December 24 1952	January 6 1953
62	Nathaniel M. Haskell	Republican	January 6 1953	January 7 1953	[5]
63	Burton M. Cross	Republican	January 7 1953	January 5 1955
64	Edmund Muskie	Democratic	January 5 1955	January 2 1959
65	Robert Haskell	Republican	January 2 1959	January 7 1959
66	Clinton Clauson	Democratic	January 7 1959	December 30 1959
67	John H. Reed	Republican	December 30 1959	January 5 1967
68	Kenneth M. Curtis	Democratic	January 5 1967	January 2 1975
69	James B. Longley	Independent	January 2 1975	January 3 1979
70	Joseph E. Brennan	Democratic	January 3 1979	January 7 1987
71	John R. McKernan Jr.	Republican	January 7 1987	January 5 1995
72	Angus King	Independent	January 5 1995	January 8 2003
73	John Baldacci	Democratic	January 8 2003	''Incumbent''	[6]

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Notes

Other high offices held

Living former governors

Notes

1. Resigned to take appointment as a minister to negotiate a treaty with Spain.
2. Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States House of Representatives.
3. Elected to the United States Senate.
4. Edward Kent won a close election, but Democrats challenged the election. He was finally declared winner by the state supreme court and sworn in on January 19 1838.
5. Burton Cross had been elected to the governorship, but his senate term ended 25 hours before his term as governor began; therefore, he could not act as governor for that day.
6. Governor Baldacci's term expires in 2011; he is term limited.

Other high offices held

This is a table of congressional and other federal offices held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Maine except where noted.
★ denotes those offices which the governor resigned to take.

Name	Gubernatorial term	U.S. Congress		Other offices held
		House	Senate
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 Dunlap	1834–1838	H
John Fairfield	1839–1841, 1842–1843	H	S ★
Edward Kavanagh	1843–1844	H
Hugh J. Anderson	1844–1847	H
Anson P. Morrill	1858–1861	H
Hannibal Hamlin	1857	H	S ★	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
Ralph Owen Brewster	1925–1929	H	S
Horace A. Hildreth	1945–1949			Ambassador to Pakistan
Frederick G. Payne	1949–1952		S ★
Edmund Muskie	1955–1959		S ★	U.S. Secretary of State
Kenneth M. Curtis	1967–1974			Ambassador to Canada
Joseph Brennan	1979–1987	H
John R. McKernan, Jr.	1987–1995	H
John Baldacci	2003–present	H

Living former governors

As of August 2007, five former governors were alive, the oldest being John H. Reed (1959–1967, born 1921). The most recent governor to die was Burton M. Cross (1952–1953, 1953–1955), on October 22 1998. The most recently-serving governor to die was James B. Longley (1975–1979), on August 16 1980.

Name	Gubernatorial term	Date of birth
John H. Reed	1959–1967	January 5 1921
Kenneth M. Curtis	1967–1974	February 8 1931
Joseph Brennan	1979–1987	November 2 1934
John R. McKernan, Jr.	1987–1995	May 20 1948
Angus King	1995–2003	March 31 1944