Famous People from Maine

Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter. Harriet BeechercStowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brunswick while married to famed clergyman and abolitionist Calvin Ellis Stowe. General Joshua Chamberlain's maneuvers marked saved the Battle of Gettysburg and he was chosen by Grant to oversee the surrender of Lee's men at Appomattox. Hannibal Hamlin was Lincoln's Vice President. Senators include George Mitchell, Bill Cohen, Owen Brewster and first female U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith who stood up to Joseph McCarthy. Speaker of the House James G. Blaine's run for the Presidency was broken behind closed doors in a deal to end Reconstruction, freeing the South to reinforce racial segregation for 80 more years. Multitudes of other famous politicians, businessmen and authors have moved to Maine from the Rockefellers to Rachel Carson to James Mitchener.