Secretary of State of Maine
The Secretary of State of Maine is elected by the state legislature . This is regulated by Article V of the Maine Constitution . The Secretary of State of Maine is responsible for conducting elections, the Maine State Archives, the Automobile Bureau, and corporate bodies . The Secretary of State is elected at the beginning of the first session of the new Maine Legislature for a two-year term, along with the other Maine constitutional offices. Acting Secretary of State is Matthew Dunlap , who took office in January 2013. He already held the office from 2005 to 2011.
List of Maine Secretaries of State
Term of office | Secretary of State | image | Party affiliation |
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1820-1821 | Ashur goods | Democratic Republican | |
1822-1828 | Amos Nichols | Democratic Republican | |
1829-1830 | Edward Russell | National Republican | |
1831-1834 | Roscoe Greene | democrat | |
1835-1837 | Asaph Nichols | democrat | |
1838 | Samuel P. Benson | Whig | |
1839 | Asaph Nichols | democrat | |
1840 | Philip C. Johnson | democrat | |
1841 | Samuel P. Benson | democrat | |
1842-1844 | Philip C. Johnson | democrat | |
1845 | William B. Hartwell | Republican | |
1846-1849 | Ezra B. French | democrat | |
1850-1853 | John G. Sawyer | democrat | |
1854-1855 | Alden Jackson | Whig | |
1856 | Caleb Ayer | democrat | |
1857 | Alden Jackson | democrat | |
1858-1860 | Noah Smith | Whig | |
1861-1863 | Joseph B. Hall | republican | |
1864-1867 | Ephraim Flint | Republican | |
1868-1871 | Franklin M. Drew | republican | |
1872-1874 | GB Stacy | republican | |
1875 | Sidney Perham | republican | |
1876-1878 | SJ Chadbourne | democrat | |
1879 | Edward H. Gove | Greenback | |
1880 | SJ Chadbourne | republican | |
1881-1884 | Joseph O. Smith | republican | |
1885-1892 | Oramandal Smith | republican | |
1891-1896 | Nicholas Fessenden | republican | |
1897-1906 | Byron Boyd | republican | |
1907-1910 | Arthur I. Brown | republican | |
1911-1912 | Cyrus W. Davis | democrat | |
1913-1914 | Joseph E. Alexander | republican | |
1915-1916 | John E. Bunker | democrat | |
1917-1926 | Frank W. Ball | republican | |
1927-1932 | Edgar C. Smith | republican | |
1933-1934 | Robinson C. Tobey | republican | |
1935-1936 | Lewis O. Barrows | republican | |
1937-1941 | Frederick Robie | republican | |
1942-1960 | Harold I. Goss | republican | |
1961-1964 | Paul A. MacDonald | republican | |
1965-1966 | Kenneth M. Curtis | democrat | |
1967-1974 | Joseph T. Edgar | republican | |
1975-1988 | Markham L. Gartley | democrat | |
1979-1988 | Rodney S. Quinn | democrat | |
1989-1996 | William Diamond | democrat | |
1997-2004 | Dan Gwadosky | democrat | |
2005-2010 | Matthew Dunlap | democrat | |
2011–2012 | Charlie Summers | republican | |
since 2013 | Matthew Dunlap | democrat |
Web links
- Maine Secretaries of State 1820- (English)
- Official site of the Maine Secretary of State (English)
- Constitution of Maine (English)