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Edmund „Ed“ Sixtus Muskie (* 28. März 1914 in Rumford, Maine; † 26. März 1996 in Washington, D.C.) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker aus dem Bundesstaat Maine. Er amtierte als Gouverneur von Maine, US-Senator und Außenminister der Vereinigten Staaten; ferner kandidierte er 1968 für das Amt des US-Vizepräsidenten .
Edmund Sixtus Muskie (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981, a United States senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, and a member of the Maine ...
1. Mai 2024 · Edmund Muskie (born March 28, 1914, Rumford, Maine, U.S.—died March 26, 1996, Washington, D.C.) was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Maine (1955–59), U.S. senator (1959–80), and secretary of state (1980–81) in the cabinet of Pres. Jimmy Carter.
But in Maine — in modest Democratic Party town offices, in the power corridors of Augusta, and in the wide sweep of the state’s civic life — Edmund Sixtus Muskie is a celestial giant, a star distant enough that its light still reaches us long after its death. The arc of his political career, from his beginnings as a state rep in Augusta ...
Edmund Sixtus Muskie served as President Jimmy Carter ’s Secretary of State from May 8, 1980 until January 18, 1981. A long-time U.S. Senator from Maine, Muskie was tapped to serve as Carter’s second Secretary of State after the resignation of Cyrus Vance following the failed rescue of the American hostages in Iran.
21. Mai 2018 · United States Senator Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914-1996), the 1968 Democratic vice-presidential nominee and briefly a presidential candidate in 1972, was one of the key congressional leaders in formulating national policy on urban affairs and the environment during the 1960s and 1970s.
The Maine Democratic Party existed before Edmund Muskie, but his surprising gubernatorial win in 1954 marked a turning point in its history. Muskie was the first Democrat Governor of Maine in nearly 20 years, and only the second in the preceding 40 years. The 1952 election of President Eisenhower, a Republican, triggered a sea change in the ...
