Keywords: Presidential candidates
Item 10979
Gus Hall, presidential candidate, 1980
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980-10-21 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 10648
George Bush, presidential candidate, Portland, 1979
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1979-08-08 Location: Portland 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.
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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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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents
"… shipbuilder elected to Congress in 1836, later a presidential elector and candidate for governor of Maine."
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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2
"The group took its name from the 1840 presidential campaign in which the Whig candidate, General William Henry Harrison, was transformed from a…"
