Notable People from Maine

Mercy Lewis

accuser of the Salem witch trials

Rufus Ingalls

Union Army general (1818-1893)

Anson Herrick

American politician (1812-1868)

Amos L. Allen

American politician (1837-1911)

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

American novelist, short story writer, educator (1909–1971)

Charles A. Coffin

American businessman (1844-1926)

Ellen Russell Emerson

American writer, ethnologist

Samuel C. Fessenden

American politician (1815-1882)

Molly Spotted Elk

American actress

Oakes Murphy

American politician (1849-1908)

Frank H. Foss

American politician (1865-1947)

Robert Luce

American politician from Massachusetts (1862-1946)

Charles P. Nelson

American politician (1907-1962)

John Irwin Hutchinson

American mathematician (1867-1935)

George Barrell Emerson

United States educator and botanist (1797-1881)

John A. Peters

American politician, lawyer and judge (1864-1953)

Frederick W. Plaisted

American politician (1865–1943)

Amory Nelson Hardy

American photographer (1834–1911)

Benjamin White Norris

American politician (1819-1873)

Gail Laughlin

American politician

Frederic Porter Vinton

American painter (1846-1911)

James Otis Kaler

American author, educator (1848-1912)

Asher Hinds

American politician (1863–1919)

Amy Morris Bradley

educator from the U.S. state of Maine. She established the first English school in Central America

Andrew Sockalexis

American distance runner (1891-1919)

Aaron Lufkin Dennison

American businessman and watchmaker

Robert P. T. Coffin

American writer (1892–1955)

Herbert Mayhew Lord

Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget (1859-1930)

James B. Greenough

American classical philologist (1833-1901)

Sid Farrar

American baseball player

Joseph Young Bergen

American botanist (1851-1917)

Seba Smith

American humorist (1792–1868)

Bryant Moore

U.S. Army officer, commander of the 8th Infantry Division during and after WWII, and the IX Corps in the Korean War (1894-1951)

Nathaniel Gordon

American slave trader (1826–1862)

Francis Fessenden

United States Army general during American Civil War

William Platt Jencks

American biochemist (1927–2007)

Hiram Gregory Berry

Union Army General (1824–1863)

William Deering

American businessman (1826–1913)

George Gore

Major League Baseball player (1857–1933)

Samuel P. Benson

American politician (1804-1876)

Melville Sewell Bagley

Originator:archetypical Argentine national liqueur Hesperidina/holder:first patent/trademark registered in Argentina on that product (1838-1880)

Ernest W. Roberts

American politician, Massachusetts (1858-1924)

Stanley R. Tupper

American politician (1921-2006)

Stephen Clark Foster

American politician from Maine (1799-1872)

Charles Wilbert Snow

American politician (1884–1977)

Napoleon J.T. Dana

Union Army general (1822–1905)

Mark H. Dunnell

Union Army officer, politician (1823-1904)

Luther C. Carter

American politician (1805-1875)

Luther Orlando Emerson

United States composer (1820-1915)