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1954
GUSN-193961
Edmund S. Muskie started politics with a successful 1946 run for a seat in the Maine House of Representatives, where he served three consecutive terms. Here, Reed shows Muskie in his hometown on the day of the 1954 Maine gubernatorial election. Reed's pictures cover the story from the tension while the results were still coming in to the elation after they revealed Muskie had won. Like Kennedy, Muskie went on to a dramatic political career, becoming the first Democrat in Maine's history to be elected U.S. senator. He ran for president in 1968 and 1972, and finished his political career as Secretary of State in 1980-1981. This particular photo shows Muskie holding his daughter. Their heads are touching, and both are smiling.
elections
governors
daughters
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
1 photograph
PC044
Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972
PC044.TMP.020
Rumford (Oxford county, Maine)
Reed, Verner, 1923-2006 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996
Included in the exhibition, A Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972
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