Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present (Judd, Churchill, and Eastman)
Chapter 16: The Republican Ascendancy
Stanley R. Howe and Dr. Edward O. Shriver summarize the Republican Party's dominance in Maine politics between 1854-1901 with the following observations: Republicans represented 14 of 16 governors in that timeframe, 28 of 29 speakers of the Maine House of Representatives, and all 34 presidents of the Maine Senate.
They then profile notable national figures like James G. Blaine and Thomas Brackett Reed before focusing on the reform issues of capital punishment, temperance, and the women's suffrage movement that tended to energize Maine's political culture throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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