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Edmund Sixtus Muskie [a] (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, and a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951.
At the time, Edmund Muskie, aged 57, was a sitting United States Senator representing Maine, having been in office since January 1959. He had previously served four years as the governor of Maine. For the 1968 United States presidential election, Muskie had been the vice presidential selection of Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey.
Carter ran with Walter Mondale and would later name Edmund Muskie as Secretary of State. [113] After being diagnosed with bladder cancer, [114] Humphrey died on January 13, 1978, while still serving in the Senate. [6] He called Richard Nixon prior to his death, and invited him to attend his funeral. [115]
He’d been appointed by Gov. Joe Brennan to succeed Ed Muskie in 1980. In doing so, Brennan passed over the more popular and accomplished Ken Curtis, who’d been the first Democrat, and first ...
Humphrey and Muskie together at the Democratic National Convention. The convention was among the most tense and confrontational political conventions ever in American history, marked by fierce debate and protest over the Vietnam peace talks and controversy over the heavy-handed police tactics of the convention's host, Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago.
The first-in-the-nation primary was won by Edmund Muskie, but by a much narrower margin than expected over his much more liberal opponent, George McGovern. [1] [2] Muskie's surprisingly close victory would slow his momentum to a halt, eventually leading him to drop out of the race altogether. [3]
A self-described political junkie, Thompson fixes his sights early on McGovern as the candidate to whom he will attach himself. Dismissing 1968 Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey as a "hopeless old hack" and presumed nominee Senator Edmund Muskie, whose campaign Thompson says exudes a "stench of death", Thompson was vindicated in his choice of McGovern.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.