Margaret Chase Smith
“I do not want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny — fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.’’
— Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995). She was a moderate Republican U.S. congresswoman (1940-49) and U.S. senator (1949-73). She was the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either. She was born and died in Skowhegan.
Downtown Skowhegan in 1906, in an era when the town, on the Kennebec River, was the site of numerous mills, along with occasional labor unrest.
