Keywords: President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Item 11792
General Dwight D. Eisenhower button, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Abel J. Morneault Memorial Library Date: circa 1950 Media: Tin, plastic
Item 78725
President Dwight D. Eisenhower fishing, Little Boy Falls, 1955
Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library Date: 1955 Location: North Oxford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Several Mainers have run for president or vice president, a number of presidents, past presidents, and future presidents have had ties to the state or visited here, and, during campaign season, many presidential candidates and their family members have brought their campaigns to Maine.
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
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Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2
"Eisenhower who appointed her as his personal and confidential secretary. For ten months she worked at his side on Operation Overlord, the planning…"
