A Bates College graduate, a former Maine governor, a longtime U.S. senator and his party’s vice presidential candidate in 1968, Muskie capped his career as secretary of state for President Jimmy ...

A dvocates are calling for action after a new report shows a pathogen risk was found at 78-percent of Maine beaches tested in ...

FBI records released to the Sun Journal on Friday show details of several investigations into claims the Democratic senator would be shot or bombed.

Muskie was a shy kid who came to Bates from Rumford, Maine. He blossomed through public speaking and debate, taking four semesters of public speaking, all taught by Brooks Quimby, Class of 1918, a ...

MAINE COMPASS: Muskie’s fall in ’72 showed there’s no crying in presidential politics. It's an unspoken rule in the presidential playbook: Be firm, show emotion, but don't cry.

Muskie chaired the Senate Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, a role that famously earned him the nickname “Mr. Clean.” In a quintessential pose and place, Sen. Edmund Muskie ’36 sits behind his ...

A Democrat hadn’t represented Maine in the U.S. Senate since Muskie was a toddler, and he had never seen the state deliver its electoral votes to a presidential candidate from his party. In 1936, when ...

A fake letter helped sink the 1972 candidacy of Maine Sen. Edmund S. Muskie — part of a dirty tricks effort waged by the Nixon re-election campaign ...

It was Muskie, a future Maine senator and U.S. Secretary of State, who often drew comparisons to the Civil War leader. Both were a physically imposing 6 feet, 4 inches tall.