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Maine -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Redmond, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue

 Series
Abstract 2325 Andrew Redmond, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, spring 1993, Madison, Maine and St. Georges de-Beauce, Quebec, Canada. Series of eight interviews. Redmond, a French-Irish timber jobber, entrepreneur, and Maine State Senator, talks about life on both sides of the Maine - Quebec border; people: Barry Rodrigue, Kenoci Rodrigue, Yvon Labbe, Liliane Labbe, Angela Hebert, Sylvester Redmond, and others. The interviews are in both English and French. Text: 257 pp. transcript. Recording: C...
Dates: 1989-1993

Aroostook Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: MF004
Scope and Contents Aroostook Oral History Project, 1971-1972, which resulted in a collection of 119 cassettes (now digitized), totaling 73 hours, with interviews of more than 150 people covering a wide range of topics; i.e., early county history, early farming and machinery, the Aroostook War, railroading, lumbering, potato farming, maple sugar making, folksongs, folklore, folk medicine, politics, town meetings, cross-border migration, smuggling, Indians, sporting camps, schools and schooling, tall tales,...
Dates: 1971-1972

Irvin C. Caverly, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1827
Abstract

Included are the personal correspondence and papers of former Governor Percival P. Baxter (born 1876 - died 1969) and former director of Baxter State Park Irvin “Buzz” Caverly, Jr. regarding Baxter State Park.

Dates: 20th century

Solon Chase Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0861-sc
Abstract Papers of a newspaperman, school master, politician, and member of the Greenback Party in Maine. Included are a handwritten autobiography, a typescript copy, and handwritten articles by Solon Chase debunking the Church, on the conduct of life, on his candidacy for the governorship, on the decoration at the Grange Hall, and on fruit and potato farms. Included also are typescript copies of those handwritten articles. Included also is a handwritten speech to the Chase-Coll Family Association,...
Dates: 1887-1963; Majority of material found within ( 1887-1931)

League of Women Voters of Maine Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0291
Abstract

Records, 1913-2008, of the League of Women Voters of Maine, Maine's branch of the national nonpartisan political organization. Includes organizational election records, board meeting minutes, annual meeting records, voters guides, school guides as well as the records collected by a representative of the League of Women Voters of Maine while attending and observing public meetings of local municipal organizations.

Dates: 1913-2011

Progressive Party of Maine Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0425
Scope and Contents

Records of the Progressive Party of Maine that show the beginnings of the Party in Maine. The collection includes correspondence, announcements, press releases, and other items of the Party's early years.

Dates: 1949-1952

Faculty Records (University Of Maine). Professor Schoenberger (Walter Smith) Records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0011-006
Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information in records reflecting Schoenberger’s activities as a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Maine as well as activities in the political arena. There is also an unlabeled photograph and illustrated brochures. The Political Science Department material include copies of Department meeting material, course proposals and details of curriculum changes, lists of students and their majors, Department publicity...
Dates: 1957-1990