Jerrold B. Speers sought the Maine Republican Party's nomination for the gubernatorial election to replace an American politician born on what date?
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Jerrold Speers Jerrold B. Speers (born 1942) is a Maine politician and lawyer. Speers represented Winthrop, Maine and the surrounding area as Majority Leader of the Maine Senate as well as state treasurer from 1978 to 1980. In 1978, Speers sought the Maine Republican Party's nomination for the gubernatorial election to replace Independent James B. Longley. He ran a low-profile campaign with only one paid staffer and lost to Linwood Palmer. Following the election of Democrat Joseph E. Brennan, the Maine Legislature elected Speers state treasurer.
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James B. Longley James Bernard Longley Sr. (April 22, 1924 – August 16, 1980) was an American politician. He served as the 69th Governor of Maine from 1975 to 1979, and was the first Independent to hold the office. In 1949, he married the former Helen Angela Walsh, who died on September 13, 2005. They had five children, including former Republican U.S. Representative James B. Longley Jr. (born 1951). Longley Sr., a graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, resided in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine.
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Peter Bowman Peter B. Bowman (born October 5, 1937) is an American politician from Maine. Bowman served as a Democratic State Senator from Maine's 1st District, representing part of York County, including his residence in Kittery. He was first elected to the Maine Senate in 2006 after incumbent Republican Mary Andrews did not seek re-election. He has also served on the Kittery School Committee.
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F. Harold Dubord Frederik Harold Dubord (December 14, 1891 – October 14, 1964) was an American attorney and politician from Maine. Dubord served five terms as the mayor of Waterville, Maine from 1928 to 1932. In 1936, Dubord was the Maine Democratic Party's nominee for governor, which he lost to Republican Lewis O. Barrows.
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Neria Douglass Neria R. Douglass (born November 16, 1952) is an American attorney and politician who served as State Treasurer of Maine. Prior to that, she served as State Auditor and also represented Auburn in the Maine Senate. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
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John Tuttle (politician) John L. Tuttle, Jr. is an American politician from Maine. Tuttle served as a Democratic State Senator from Maine's 3rd District, representing part of York County including his residence of Sanford. He was first elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1978, serving until 1984 when he successfully sought to represent Sanford and the surrounding towns in the State Senate. He served in the State Senate until 1988, when he returned to the House. He served again the House from 2002-2010, when he was unable to run for re-election due to term limits. He successfully ran to replace Republican Jonathan Courtney, who ran for U.S. Congress. In the general election, he defeated fellow Sanford High School Class of 1970 alumnus Brad Littlefield. He was defeated for re-election in 2014 by Waterboro Republican David Woodsome.
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Maine gubernatorial election, 1942 The 1942 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 14, 1942. Incumbent Republican Governor Sumner Sewall was seeking a second term, and faced off against Democratic challenger George W. Lane, Jr. Sewall was able to easily win his re-election. This contest was the first gubernatorial election held after the entry of the United States into the second world war.
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Richard Ramsey Richard R. Ramsey (born November 23, 1940) is an American politician in the state of Iowa.
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Philip Cresey, Jr. Philip A. Cresey, Jr. is an American politician from Maine. A Republican from Baldwin, Maine, Cresey served 4 terms (2000-2007) in the Maine House of Representatives.
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David Durenberger David Ferdinand "Dave" Durenberger (born August 19, 1934) is an American politician and a former Republican member of the U.S. Senate from Minnesota.
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Mary Wendy Roberts Mary Wendy Roberts (born December 19, 1944) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oregon.
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Maine gubernatorial election, 1962 The 1962 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Republican Governor John Reed, had been elected in 1960 in a special election to finish the final two years of Clinton Clauson's term following his death, and was seeking a full term of his own. He faced off against Democratic challenger Maynard C. Dolloff. Reed was re-elected by one of the narrowest margins in Maine history – a mere 483 votes.
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Owen Brewster Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, served as the 54th Governor of Maine from 1925 to 1929, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941 and in the U.S. Senate from 1941 to 1952. Brewster was a close confidant of Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and an antagonist of Howard Hughes.
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Burton M. Cross Burton Melvin Cross (November 15, 1902 – October 22, 1998) was a Maine Republican politician. Cross was Maine's 61st and 63rd Governor.
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Maine gubernatorial election, 1948 The 1948 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 13, 1948. Incumbent Republican Governor Horace A. Hildreth, was term limited and seeking election to the United States Senate (eventually losing the Republican Primary to Margaret Chase Smith), thus did not run. Republican mayor of Augusta Frederick G. Payne faced off against Democratic challenger Louis B. Lausier, defeating him in a landslide.
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Joseph R. Bodwell Joseph Robinson Bodwell (June 18, 1818 – December 15, 1887) was an American politician who most notably served as the 40th Governor of Maine.
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John Kerry John Forbes Kerry ( ; born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A Democrat, he previously served Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1985 to 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush.
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Tarren Bragdon Tarren Bragdon (born 1975) is an American former state legislator and think tank founder. At age 21, Bragdon won a seat in the Maine House of Representatives and became the youngest state legislator ever elected in Maine. A Republican, Bragdon served in the Maine House from 1996 through 2000. After two terms in office, Bragdon declined to seek re-election, instead taking a job running the Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC). Bragdon headed MHPC, a conservative think tank, from 2008 through 2011.
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Daniel F. Davis Daniel Franklin Davis (September 12, 1843 – January 9, 1897) was an American politician and the 37th Governor of Maine.
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George J. Mitchell George John Mitchell Jr. (born August 20, 1933) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. A Democrat, Mitchell served as a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995.
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Ralph Edwards (politician) Ralph E. Edwards was an American politician from Maine. A Republican from Oxford, Maine, Edwards spent 4 terms (1942-1950) in the Maine Legislature. His first 4 years were spent in the Maine House of Representatives and his last 4 in the Maine Senate.
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Thomas P. Salmon Thomas Paul Salmon (born August 19, 1932) is a U.S. Democratic Party politician who served as the 75th Governor of Vermont from 1973 to 1977.