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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.
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.
A highlight was volatile Rolling Stone writer Hunter S. Thompson quoting an aide to Edmund Muskie about why the senator from Maine wouldn't debate other Democratic candidates: "My instructions are ...
After the controversy surrounding Eagleton, future campaigns spent much more time vetting vice presidential candidates. ... Edmund Muskie of Maine (1959–1980 ...
While modelling a dress in the boutique window, a local lawyer and military officer, Lieutenant Edmund Muskie, came into the shop and invited her to attend a gala event with him. [5] Soon after, she and Muskie began dating despite their difference in age stirring controversy in the town; she was nineteen and he was thirty-two. [6]
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 ...
Another notable example of Segretti's wrongdoing was a letter he faked, on Edmund Muskie's letterhead, falsely alleging that U.S. Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a fellow Democrat, had an illegitimate child with a 17-year-old. The "Muskie letters" also accused Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of sexual misconduct. [6]