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How Ed Muskie’s Disastrous Presidential Campaign Changed Maine Politics Forever. Wiping away what may or may not have been tears, the Maine senator and brief presidential front-runner dooms his primary chances — while shaping a generation of Maine leaders. Muskie’s opponents, one New York Times writer proclaimed in 1970, “think of Maine ...

A fake letter helped sink the 1972 candidacy of Maine Sen. Edmund S. Muskie — part of a dirty tricks effort waged by the Nixon re-election campaign

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 ...

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.

Edmund Muskie was the leading environmentalist in Congress in 1970, so it was not surprising that he was invited to be the keynote speaker at the first Earth Day gathering in Philadelphia.

1. On the campaign trail, Muskie was more a preacher, less a debater. Muskie is often framed as a fierce rhetorical combatant. And why not: He was a great debater at Bates and a legend in the U.S. Senate. “The Muskie legend is that he was a great debater who had a superb legal mind.

Edmund S. Muskie, the charming if often volatile Democrat from Maine who served as his state's Governor, as United States Senator and briefly as Secretary of State, died early today at the ...

As chair of the Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Muskie established himself as the Senate's leader in environmental legislation, shepherding the 1963 Clean Air Act and the 1965 Water Quality Act to passage.