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Edmund Muskie, in full Edmund Sixtus Muskie, (born March 28, 1914, Rumford, Maine, U.S.—died March 26, 1996, Washington, D.C.), American Democratic politician who served as governor of Maine (1955–59), U.S. senator (1959–80), and secretary of state (1980–81) in the cabinet of Pres. Jimmy Carter. After graduating cum laude from Bates ...

Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, then a Democratic presidential primary candidate, in New Hampshire in 1972. (Bettmann/Bettmann Archive) The most notorious fake letter in American politics entered the...

When Muskie was elected as a Democrat to the state legislature in 1946, following nearly four years in the Navy during World War II, Maine was among the nation’s most devout GOP strongholds. The last 90 years had seen just three Democratic governors (and 29 Republicans).

MUSKIE, Edmund Sixtus, (1914 - 1996) Senate Years of Service: 1959-1980. Senator Muskie served for 22 years in the U.S. Senate and was extremely active in developing air pollution control legislation throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (28 March 1914 – 26 March 1996) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Muskie was born in Rumford, Maine to a Polish family. He was the Governor of Maine serving from 1955 to 1959, and a United States Senator from 1959 to 1980.

Ed Muskie was arguably the most prominent Mainer of the 20th century, serving as governor, U.S. senator, and as secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter. He also very nearly became vice president.

A two-term governor of Maine before joining the Senate, Muskie gained national recognition as the vice presidential candidate in Hubert Humphrey's unsuccessful 1968 presidential race.

It implied that Senator Edmund Muskie, a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, held prejudice against Americans of French-Canadian descent. The letter was a successful attempt at sabotage masterminded by Donald Segretti and written by Ken W. Clawson.