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  Edmund Muskie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muskie was born Edmund Sixtus Marciszewski in Rumford, Maine, the son of Roman Catholic Polish immigrants.
Muskie became one of the first environmentalists to enter the U.S. Senate and was a leading campaigner for new and stronger measures to curb pollution and provide a cleaner environment.
Muskie was tapped by President Jimmy Carter to serve as Secretary of State, following the resignation of Cyrus Vance from that post in 1980.
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 Former Senator Edmund Muskie Dead at 81
Muskie was born in Rumford, a western Maine paper mill town, on March 28, 1914, the son of Stephen and Josephine Muskie.
Muskie spent six years in the Maine House, becoming minority leader of the small group of Democrats in the Republican-dominated Legislature, and was chosen as his party's gubernatorial candidate in 1954.
Muskie, whose home state had felt the bad effects of polluted air and water, was in the forefront of those who drafted the 1963 Clean Air Act and the 1965 Water Quality Act and pushed them through the Senate.
www.jhu.edu /~newslett/03-29-96/News/Former_Senator_Edmund_Muskie_Dead_at_81.html   (1066 words)

  
 Bates College | Edmund S. Muskie
Edmund Sixtus Muskie was born in 1914 in Rumford, Maine.
Muskie was elected Maine's governor in 1954 and served two terms before winning election to the U.S. Senate in 1958.
Muskie was also the first chair of the Senate Committee on the Budget and served on the Foreign Relations Committee, among other committee assignments.
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 Edmund Muskie
Edmund Muskie (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was a Polish-American Democrat politician from Maine.
Following the resignation of Cyrus Vance in 1980, Muskie left the senate to succeed the latter as Secretary of State in the cabinet of Democratic President Jimmy Carter.
Muskie's papers are kept at the Edmund S. Archives at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edmund_muskie.html   (1104 words)

  
 Jane Muskie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jane Gray Muskie (February 12, 1927 – December 25, 2004) was the widow of U.S. senator and 1968 vice presidential candidate Edmund Muskie, whose 1972 presidential campaign collapsed after he emotionally defended Mrs.
An emotional Edmund Muskie defended his wife outside the newspaper's offices in the cold New Hampshire winter.
Senator Muskie appeared to cry, but he later claimed that melted snowflakes, not tears, were streaming down his face.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Muskie   (166 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Jane Muskie Dies; Husband's Emotional Defense Turned Race   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Muskie, a former bookkeeper and model, was a hard-working supporter of her husband's political career as the former lawyer ascended the ranks of the Democratic Party from his start in the Maine legislature.
Edmund Muskie choked up several times during the speech, and several news organizations reported that he cried, but a dispute has persisted for years over whether he had tears or melted snowflakes on his face.
Muskie, who was pregnant with their fourth child, suddenly found herself trying to raise a family while keeping pace with a demanding social calendar.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A32670-2004Dec28?language=printer   (514 words)

  
 BookRags: Edmund Sixtus Muskie Biography
The Muskies were one of only three Polish families in the western Maine paper mill town of Rumford, and young Edmund was frequently the subject of schoolyard taunts for his ancestry, his religion, and, he found later, his father's politics, as the elder Muskie was one of the few Democrats in the town.
Muskie was the surprise winner in the 1946 legislative race, served three terms in the state legislature, and in 1954 became Maine's first Democratic governor in 20 years and only the second in the century.
Muskie was reelected to the Senate in 1964, 1970, and 1976.
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 Learn more about Edmund Muskie in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Edmund Sixtus Muskie (March 28, 1914 - March 26, 1996) was an American politican from Maine.
Muskie was born in Rumford, Maine and graduated from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, in 1936, and Cornell University Law School, in 1939.
Muskie was succeeded in the senate by George Mitchell.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /e/ed/edmund_muskie.html   (259 words)

  
 Linowitz remembers Muskie
Muskie, Sen. Hubert Humphrey's vice presidential running mate in 1968, was widely considered a shoo-in for the Democratic Party nomination when he himself ran for the nation's highest office in 1972.
Muskie was born in Rumford, Maine, the son of an immigrant Polish tailor.
Muskie pioneered environmental protection laws, as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, and championed a responsible federal budget as chair of the Senate Budget Committee.
www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.n/Chronicle/96/4.4.96/muskie.html   (616 words)

  
 Muskie, Edmund Sixtus - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
MUSKIE, EDMUND SIXTUS [Muskie, Edmund Sixtus] 1914-96, U.S. Senator (1959-80), b.
During his career in the Senate, Muskie was a strong advocate of environmental protection and also served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
In 1968, Muskie was the Democratic candidate for Vice President, sharing the ticket with Hubert Humphrey.
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 Edmund S. Muskie: 1914 - 1996 | Muskie School of Public Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Edmund S. Muskie's contributions to the state of Maine and the nation and his service in both the executive and legislative branches set the standard of excellence in public service that the Muskie School seeks to instill in its students and to sustain in all its efforts.
When the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service was names in his honor, Senator Muskie challenged students, faculty and researchers to make a real difference in the lives of the people of Maine and the nation.
Muskie was a senior partner with Chadbourne and Parke, an international law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, London, Moscow, and New Delhi.
muskie.usm.maine.edu /about/about_muskie.jsp   (361 words)

  
 Edmund Muskie of Maine
Muskie was born on March 28, 1914 in the small community of Rumford, Maine.
Muskie was one of the strong contenders for the democratic nomination for President in 1972 to run against incumbent Richard M. Nixon.
During the Watergate hearings in 1973, evidence suggested that Muskie was one of the victims of this corrupt behavior.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/maine_people/107648   (435 words)

  
 Husband defended her in pivotal speech | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Muskie accompanied her husband during his rise in Democratic politics from the Maine Legislature to the governor's house, the U.S. Senate and to President Carter's Cabinet as secretary of state.
Edmund Muskie choked up several times during the speech, and several news organizations reported that he cried, but a dispute has persisted for years whether it was tears or melted snowflakes on his face.
Edmund Muskie was elected governor in 1954, then senator four years later, moving his family to Washington.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041229/news_1n29muskie.html   (332 words)

  
 Jane Gray Muskie, wife of ex-presidential candidate
AUGUSTA, Maine -- Jane Gray Muskie, whose husband Edmund Muskie's 1972 presidential campaign collapsed after he defended her honor with what appeared to be tears in his eyes, has died.
Muskie accompanied her husband during his rise in Democratic politics from the Maine Legislature to the governor's house, the U.S. Senate and to President Jimmy Carter's Cabinet as secretary of state.
Edmund Muskie died of a heart attack in 1996 at 81.
www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-nws-xmuskie29.html   (299 words)

  
 Maine Secretary of State Kid's Page - Famous People
Muskie was born in Rumford, Maine and studied at Bates College.
In 1958, Muskie was elected to the U.S. Senate where he served for 22 years.
Muskie also ran for President in 1972 and was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1968 election.
www.state.me.us /sos/kids/allabout/people/e_muskie.htm   (129 words)

  
 2004-2005 News Releases
Edmund S. Muskie was a native of Rumford, Maine, and a graduate of Bates College and Cornell University Law School.
Muskie then served two terms as Maine governor before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1958, where he served for 21 years.
Muskie, the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1968 and a presidential candidate in 1972, was named secretary of state in 1980.
www.usm.maine.edu /~mcr/news/releases_04-05/muskiegift.htm   (557 words)

  
 Edmund Muskie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
American politician Edmund Muskie practiced law before he was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1947.
In the Senate, Muskie was a leading supporter of environmental legislation.
Muskie also served briefly as Secretary of State in 1980-81.
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 Online NewsHour: Remembering Ed Muskie
During the New Hampshire primary, Muskie choked with anger and seemed to cry because of a couple of nasty articles in the "Manchester Union Leader." One article proved to be a hoax.
Muskie then went back to the Senate and headed the powerful Budget Committee until President Carter tapped him to be Secretary of State in 1980.
Ed Muskie went on from there to be elected, to be reelected in a landslide, the first Democrat ever popularly elected from the state of Maine in its history.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/muskie_3-26.html   (1718 words)

  
 Chadbourne & Parke LLP Donates $100k In Support of New Facility at The Edmund S. Muskie School Of Public Service
Muskie was sworn in as the 58th U.S. Secretary of State on May 8, 1980, a position he held until January 1981.
Muskie was responsible for legislation that even today stands at the heart of the nation's environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, as well as a wide range of other important legislation, such as the Budget Reform Act.
In fact, our conference center in our Washington, D.C. office is named after Senator Muskie." The Muskie School has been increasingly recognized in Maine and nationally for applying the university's analytic and research resources to critical issues in the fields of health policy, public policy and management, community planning and economic development.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-10-2004/0002401762&EDATE=   (503 words)

  
 Edmund Muskie
A former governor of Maine, Muskie was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1958 and served until 1980.
In the presidential election of 1968 he was the vice-presidential candidate for the Democrats, and in 1972 he ran for president against the Republican incumbent, Richard Nixon.
Edmund Sixtus MUSKIE - MUSKIE, Edmund Sixtus (1914—1996) Senate Years of Service: 1959-1980 Party: Democrat MUSKIE,...
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 Martha Muskie, Military Daughter
Martha Muskie, 47, a former vocational rehabilitation program specialist at the Department of Education, died of lupus January 2, 2006, at her home in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Martha Muskie, 47, a former social worker with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and an employee with the U.S. Department of Education, died on January 2, 2006 after a long struggle with Lupus.
Muskie, through her work with the Multiple Sclerosis Society and U.S. Department of Education, focused on a number of issues related to women and disabilities.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /martha-muskie.htm   (332 words)

  
 Edmund S. Muskie - Picture - MSN Encarta
A series of “dirty tricks” orchestrated by the campaign staff of United States President Richard Nixon (1969-1974) helped destroy the 1972 Democratic presidential campaign of Senator Edmund S. Muskie.
During the New Hampshire primary campaign, Muskie attacked the editor of a local newspaper who had printed false rumors planted by the Committee to Reelect the President.
His emotional response was nationally televised and seriously damaged his reputation as a calm statesman.
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 Muskie Edmund S(ixtus) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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