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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MaineEdmund Sixtus MUSKIE
(1914-1996)
Senate Years of Service:
1959-1980Party: DemocratMUSKIE, Edmund Sixtus, a
Senator from Maine; born in Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, March
28, 1914; attended the public schools; graduated from Bates
College, Lewiston, Maine, in 1936, and Cornell University Law
School, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1939; admitted to the Massachusetts bar in
1939 and Maine bar in 1940; commenced the practice of law in
Waterville, Maine, in 1940; during the Second World War enlisted in
the United States Navy and served in the Atlantic and
Asiatic-Pacific Theaters 1942-1945; member and secretary of
Waterville Board of Zoning Adjustment 1948-1955; appointed district
director for Maine Office of Price Stabilization 1951-1952; city
solicitor of Waterville in 1954; elected to the State house of
representatives in 1946, 1948, and 1950, and was Democratic floor
leader 1949-1951; Governor of Maine 1955-1959; elected a Democrat
to the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964, 1970 and
1976 and served from January 3, 1959, until his resignation on May
7, 1980, to enter the Cabinet; chairman, Committee on the Budget
(Ninety-third through Ninety-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful
Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States in
1968; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter
1980-1981; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 16,
1981; member, President’s Special Review Board (“Tower
Commission”) 1987; practiced law and was a resident of
Washington, D.C., until his death on March 26, 1996; interment at
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Asbell, Bernard.
The Senate Nobody Knows. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978;
Muskie, Edmund. Journeys. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday,
1972.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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