List of presidents of the Maine Senate

The desk for the president of the Maine Senate in 2014

The position of President of the Maine Senate was created when Maine separated from Massachusetts and achieved statehood in 1820.

The Maine Legislature had one year terms until 1880, when an amendment to the Maine Constitution took effect to provide for two year terms. Joseph A. Locke was the first Senate president to serve a two-year term, starting in 1881.[1] The longest-tenured president of the Senate is currently Charles P. Pray, who served four consecutive two-year terms for eight total years as Senate President between 1984 and 1992.

As Maine has no lieutenant governor, the president of the Senate is first in line to become Governor of Maine in the event of a vacancy.

List of presidents of the Maine Senate

NameImageTook officeLeft officePartyHometown
John Chandler18201820Democratic-RepublicanMonmouth
William Moody18201820Democratic-RepublicanSaco
William D. Williamson18201821Democratic-RepublicanBangor
Daniel Rose18221823Democratic-RepublicanThomaston
Benjamin Ames18241824Democratic-RepublicanBath
Jonas Wheeler18251826Democratic-RepublicanCamden
Robert P. Dunlap18271828Democratic-RepublicanBrunswick
Nathan Cutler18291829Democratic-RepublicanFarmington
Joshua Hall18301830Democratic-RepublicanFrankfort
Robert P. Dunlap18311831Democratic-RepublicanBrunswick
F.O.J. Smith18321832DemocraticPortland
Joseph Williamson18331834DemocraticBelfast
Josiah Pierce18351836DemocraticGorham
John C. Talbot18371837DemocraticEast Machias
Nathaniel Littlefield18381838DemocraticBridgton
Job Prince18391839DemocraticTurner
Stephen C. Foster18401840DemocraticPembroke
Richard H. Vose18411841DemocraticAugusta
Samuel Blake18421842DemocraticBangor
Edward Kavanagh18431843DemocraticDamariscotta
Virgil D. Parris18431843DemocraticBuckfield
John W. Dana18441844DemocraticFryeburg
Manly B. Townsend18451845DemocraticAlexander
Stephen Chase18461846DemocraticFryeburg
David Dunn18461846DemocraticPoland
John Hodgdon18471847DemocraticHoulton
Caleb R. Ayer18481848DemocraticCornish
William Tripp18491849DemocraticWilton
Paulinus Foster18501850DemocraticAnson
Noah Prince18511852DemocraticBuckfield
Samuel Butman18531853Whig[2]Dixmont
Luther Moore18541854DemocraticLimerick
Franklin Muzzy18551855WhigBangor
Lot M. Morrill18561856RepublicanAugusta
Joseph H. Williams18571857RepublicanAugusta
Hiram Chapman18571857RepublicanDamariscotta
Seth Scamman18581858RepublicanSaco
Charles Goddard18591859RepublicanAuburn
Thomas H. Marshall18601860RepublicanBelfast
John H. Goodenow18611862RepublicanAlfred
Nathan Farwell18631863RepublicanRockland
George Barrows18641864RepublicanFryeburg
David Dinsmore Stewart18651865RepublicanSt. Albans
William Wirt Virgin18661866RepublicanNorway
Nathaniel A. Burpee18671867RepublicanRockland
Josiah Crosby18681868RepublicanDexter
Stephen Lindsey18691869RepublicanNorridgewock
William W. Bolster18701870RepublicanDixfield
Charles Buffum18711871RepublicanOrono
Reuben Foster18721872RepublicanWaterville
John B. Foster18731873RepublicanBangor
John E. Butler18741874RepublicanBiddeford
Edmund F. Webb18751875RepublicanWaterville
Thomas W. Hyde18761877RepublicanBath
Warren H. Vinton18781878RepublicanGray
J. Manchester Haynes18791879RepublicanAugusta
Joseph A. Locke18801882RepublicanPortland
John L. Cutler18831884RepublicanBangor
William D. Pennell18851886RepublicanLewiston
Sebastian Marble18871888RepublicanWaldoboro
Henry Lord18891890RepublicanBangor
Charles Libby18911892RepublicanPortland
Albert Spear18931894RepublicanGardiner
George M. Seiders18951896RepublicanPortland
Albert R. Day18971898RepublicanCorinna
Oliver B. Clason18991900RepublicanGardiner
Hannibal E. Hamlin19011902RepublicanEllsworth
Harry R. Virgin19031904RepublicanPortland
Forrest Goodwin19051906RepublicanSkowhegan
Fred J. Allen19071908RepublicanSanford
Luere B. Deasy19091910RepublicanBar Harbor
Nathan Clifford19111912DemocraticCape Elizabeth
Carl E. Milliken19131914RepublicanIsland Falls
Ira G. Hersey19151916RepublicanHoulton
Taber D. Bailey19171918RepublicanBangor
Leon F. Higgins19191920RepublicanBrewer
Percival Baxter19211921RepublicanPortland
Charles E. Gurney19211922RepublicanPortland
Frank G. Farrington19231924RepublicanAugusta
Hodgdon C. Buzzell19251926RepublicanBelfast
Frank H. Holley19271928RepublicanNorth Anson
J. Blaine Morrison19291930RepublicanPhillips
Burleigh Martin19311932RepublicanAugusta
Harold H. Murchie19331934RepublicanCalais
Harold E. Weeks19351936RepublicanFairfield
Frederick J. Burns19371938RepublicanHoulton
Sumner Sewall19391940RepublicanBath
Nathaniel Tompkins19411942RepublicanHoulton
Francis H. Friend19421942RepublicanSkowhegan
Horace A. Hildreth19421944RepublicanCumberland
George D. Varney19441948RepublicanKittery
Burton M. Cross19481952RepublicanAugusta
Nathaniel M. Haskell19531954RepublicanPortland
John F. Ward19541954RepublicanMillinocket
Robert Haskell19541958RepublicanBangor
John H. Reed19581960RepublicanFort Fairfield
Earle M. Hillman19601962RepublicanBangor
Robert A. Marden19621964RepublicanWaterville
Carlton Day Reed, Jr.19641966DemocraticWoolwich
Joseph Campbell19661968RepublicanAugusta
Kenneth P. MacLeod19681974RepublicanBrewer
Joseph Sewall19741982RepublicanOld Town
Gerard Conley19821984DemocraticPortland
Charles P. Pray19841992DemocraticMillinocket
Dennis L. Dutremble19921994DemocraticBiddeford
Jeffrey Butland19941996RepublicanCumberland
Mark Lawrence19962000DemocraticKittery
Mike Michaud20002001DemocraticEast Millinocket
Rick Bennett20012002RepublicanNorway[3]
Beverly Daggett20022004DemocraticAugusta
Beth Edmonds20042008DemocraticFreeport
Libby Mitchell20082010DemocraticVassalboro
Kevin Raye20102012RepublicanPerry
Justin Alfond20122014DemocraticPortland
Michael Thibodeau20142018RepublicanWinterport
Troy Jackson20182024DemocraticAllagash
Mattie Daughtry2024-DemocraticBrunswick

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Senate Presidents - Maine Legislature". Archived from the original on January 26, 2004.
  2. ↑ "Organization of the Legislature". The Ellsworth Herald. Vol. 2. January 7, 1853. p. 3. Retrieved May 14, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ The Maine Senate had an equal number of Democrats and Republicans 2000–2002, plus one Independent Senator; as such each party chose the President for a year.
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