Maine actually used to be part of Massachusetts. The first people that inhabited Maine were called the Red paint people. They were called the Red Paint people because they lined their graves with red clay. They settled in Maine before the coming of the Micmac and Abnaki Indian nations. The first Europeans to map Maine was a sailor named Estêvão Gomes. After Thomas Edison invented electricity Maine began using there big rivers to create hydroelectric power.
The republicans pretty much were in control since GOP was started until Edmund S. Muskie got elected as the governor in the year 1954. Muskie was elected for the United States senate in 1958. After that in the year 1968 he got an invatation to be the Democratic vice-president. Four years later he was a very big contendor in the presidential election. Muskie then became the secretary of state by the President Jimmy Carter in 1979. In the 1930s there was the Great Depression which completely stopped the state's economy like everybody else. The state has become large in tourism now.
(n.d.). In History of Maine. Retrieved September 14,
2012, from http://www.mainehistory.info/history.html
The republicans pretty much were in control since GOP was started until Edmund S. Muskie got elected as the governor in the year 1954. Muskie was elected for the United States senate in 1958. After that in the year 1968 he got an invatation to be the Democratic vice-president. Four years later he was a very big contendor in the presidential election. Muskie then became the secretary of state by the President Jimmy Carter in 1979. In the 1930s there was the Great Depression which completely stopped the state's economy like everybody else. The state has become large in tourism now.
(n.d.). In History of Maine. Retrieved September 14,
2012, from http://www.mainehistory.info/history.html