Secretary of State of Maine

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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
1820-1821 Ashur goods Ware 1848.jpg 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 Samuel Page Benson (Maine Congressman) .jpg 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 Ezra B. French.jpg 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 SPerham.jpg 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 Matthew Dunlap.jpg democrat
2011–2012 Charlie Summers Charlie Summers.jpg republican
since 2013 Matthew Dunlap Matthew Dunlap.jpg democrat

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