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Item 10283
Title: Senator Smith Votes
Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library
Date: 1962-11-06
Location: Skowhegan
Media: black and white photograph
Item 16136
Title: Senator Smith meets with Ambassador Horace Hildreth
Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library
Date: 1955-03-05
Location: Karachi
Media: black and white photograph
Item 76152
Title: Senator Muskie at the Sugarloaf World Cup, 1971
Contributed by: Ski Museum of Maine
Date: 1971
Location: Carrabassett Valley
Media: Black and White Photographic Image
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Clean Water: Muskie and the Environment
Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie earned the nickname "Mr. Clean" for his environment efforts during his tenure in Congress from 1959 to 1980. He helped created a political coalition that passed important clean air and clean water legislation, drawing on his roots in Maine.
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Margaret Chase Smith: A Historic Candidacy
When she announced her candidacy for President in January 1964, three-term Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to seek the nomination of one of the two major political parties.
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2009 marked the bicentennials of the births of Abraham Lincoln and his first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. To observe the anniversary, Paris Hill, where Hamlin was born and raised, honored the native statesman and recalled both his early life in the community and the mark he made on Maine and the nation.