The Political Graveyard: Penobscot County, Maine

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Penobscot County
Maine

Politicians who were born in Penobscot County

Penobscot County (no city given): Dennis Bow, 1829 — John H. McGraw, 1850

Argyle: Solomon Gilman Comstock, 1842

Bangor:

	Bangor, 1700-1799: James Carr, 1777
	Bangor, 1800-1899: Gorham L. Boynton, 1806 — William H. Brown, 1822 — Frederick A. Cummings, 1838 — Peter Mutty, 1848 — Otto E. Greeley, 1853 — John H. Carkin, 1853 — Edward H. Blake, c.1856 — John F. Woodman, c.1856 — Boardman Hall, 1856 — Edward Kent, Jr., 1862 — Frederick W. Plaisted, 1865 — Allen C. T. Wilson, 1866 — William A. Heal, 1867 — John H. Dooley, 1869 — Charles S. Wilson, 1873 — Charles B. Clarke, 1875 — Donald F. Snow, 1877 — Wingate F. Cram, 1877
	Bangor, 1900-1999: Edward M. Curran, 1903 — Robert N. Haskell, 1903 — Robert Newbegin, 1905 — William P. Snow, 1907 — James B. Mullen, 1913 — Chester E. Norris, Jr., 1927 — William S. Cohen, 1940 — John McKernan, Jr., 1948 — John E. Baldacci, 1955

Brewer: Joshua L. Chamberlain, 1828 — William F. Curran, 1863

Carmel: Lucilius A. Emery, 1840

Charleston: Richard T. Dunning, 1865

Chester: Mark Alton Barwise, 1881

Corinna: LeRoy R. Folsom, 1870

Corinth: George W. Emery, 1830

Dexter: Roscoe P. Copeland, 1838 — Noah W. Burdick, 1855 — Ralph Owen Brewster, 1888

Dixmont: Charles F. Bragg, c.1850 — Albert R. Day, c.1861

East Corinth: Arthur R. Gould, 1857

East Hampden: Charles Gardner Miles, 1879

Hampden: Isaiah Stetson, 1812 — James S. Brown, 1824 — Hiram Knowles, 1834 — Hannibal E. Hamlin, 1858 — Philip Marshall Brown, 1875

Hermon: Howard B. Leathers, 1852

Kingman: Marion E. Martin, 1900

Levant: William T. Haines, 1854 — Lincoln E. Clement, 1895

Lincoln: Willard H. Cummings, 1884

Medway: Michael H. Michaud, 1955

Milford: Joseph W. Craven, 1854

Newburg: Joseph H. Whitney, 1858

Newport: Horace D. Ridlon, 1876 — Lewis O. Burrows, 1893

Old Town: James N. Coombs, 1842 — J. Fred Twitchell, 1863 — Frederick R. Dyer, 1873

Orono: Jonathan Norcross, 1808 — Wallace Rider Farrington, 1871

Orrington: Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain, 1805 — Benjamin F. Mudge, 1817 — Arthur Chapin, 1855

Winn: Robert F. Fernald, 1890

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