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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.

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

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.

As the Democratic National Convention ended on Aug. 29, 1968, and the presidential campaign kicked off, many believed that the Democratic ticket — Hubert Humphrey running for president and U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie ’36 of Maine for vice president — was dead on arrival. “We were supposed to lose,” says Don Nicoll, Muskie’s campaign ...