List of Presidents of the Maine Senate
The position of President of the Maine Senate was created when Maine separated from Massachusetts and achieved statehood in 1820. The Maine Legislature had one year terms until 1880, when an amendment to the Maine Constitution took effect to provide for two year terms.

List of Presidents of the Maine Senate

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Table Section Text: The position of President of the Maine Senate was created when Maine separated from Massachusetts and achieved statehood in 1820. The Maine Legislature had one year terms until 1880, when an amendment to the Maine Constitution took effect to provide for two year terms.

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Hometown

John Chandler	1820	1820	Democratic-Republican	Monmouth

William Moody	1820	1820	Democratic-Republican	Saco

William D. Williamson	1820	1821	Democratic-Republican	Bangor

Daniel Rose	1822	1823	Democratic-Republican	Thomaston

Benjamin Ames	1824	1824	Democratic-Republican	Bath

Jonas Wheeler	1825	1826	Democratic-Republican	Camden

Robert P. Dunlap	1827	1828	Democratic-Republican	Brunswick

Nathan Cutler	1829	1829	Democratic-Republican	Farmington

Joshua Hall	1830	1830	Democratic-Republican	Frankfort

Robert P. Dunlap	1831	1831	Democratic-Republican	Brunswick

F.O.J. Smith	1832	1832	Democratic	Portland

Joseph Williamson	1833	1834	Democratic	Belfast

Josiah Pierce	1835	1836	Democratic	Gorham

John C. Talbot	1837	1837	Democratic	East Machias

Nathaniel Littlefield	1838	1838	Democratic	Bridgton

Job Prince	1839	1839	Democratic	Turner

Stephen C. Foster	1840	1840	Democratic	Pembroke

Richard H. Vose	1841	1841	Democratic	Augusta

Samuel Blake	1842	1842	Democratic	Bangor

Edward Kavanagh	1843	1843	Democratic	Damariscotta

Virgil D. Parris	1843	1843	Democratic	Buckfield

John W. Dana	1844	1844	Democratic	Fryeburg

Manly B. Townsend	1845	1845	Democratic	Alexander

Stephen Chase	1846	1846	Democratic	Fryeburg

David Dunn	1846	1846	Democratic	Poland

John Hodgdon	1847	1847	Democratic	Houlton

Caleb R. Ayer	1848	1848	Democratic	Cornish

William Tripp	1849	1849	Democratic	Wilton

Paulinus Foster	1850	1850	Democratic	Anson

Samuel Butman	1851	1852	Democratic	Dixmont

Luther Moore	1854	1854	Democratic	Limerick

Franklin Muzzy	1855	1855	Whig	Bangor

Lot M. Morrill	1856	1856	Republican	Augusta

Joseph H. Williams	1857	1857	Republican	Augusta

Hiram Chapman	1857	1857	Republican	Damariscotta

Seth Scamman	1858	1858	Republican	Saco

Charles Goddard	1859	1859	Republican	Auburn

Thomas H. Marshall	1860	1860	Republican	Belfast

John H. Goodenow	1861	1862	Republican	Alfred

Nathan Farwell	1863	1863	Republican	Rockland

George Barrows	1864	1864	Republican	Fryeburg

David D. Stewart	1865	1865	Republican	St. Albans

William Wirt Virgin	1866	1866	Republican	Norway

Nathanial A. Burpee	1867	1867	Republican	Rockland

Josiah Crosby	1868	1868	Republican	Dexter

Stephen Lindsey	1869	1869	Republican	Norridgewock

William W. Bolster	1870	1870	Republican	Dixfield

Charles Buffum	1871	1871	Republican	Orono

Reuben Foster	1872	1872	Republican	Waterville

John B. Foster	1873	1873	Republican	Bangor

John E. Butler	1874	1874	Republican	Biddeford

Edmund F. Webb	1875	1875	Republican	Waterville

Thomas W. Hyde	1876	1877	Republican	Bath

Warren H. Vinton	1878	1878	Republican	Gray

J. Manchester Haynes	1879	1879	Republican	Augusta

Joseph A. Locke	1880	1882	Republican	Portland

John L. Cutler	1883	1884	Republican	Bangor

William Pennell	1885	1886	Republican	Lewiston

Sebastian Marble	1887	1888	Republican	Waldoboro

Henry Lord	1889	1890	Republican	Bangor

Charles Libby	1891	1892	Republican	Portland

Albert Spear	1893	1894	Republican	Gardiner

George M. Seiders	1895	1896	Republican	Portland

Albert R. Day	1897	1898	Republican	Corinna

Oliver B. Clason	1899	1900	Republican	Gardiner

Hannibal E. Hamlin	1901	1902	Republican	Ellsworth

Harry R. Virgin	1903	1904	Republican	Portland

Forrest Goodwin	1905	1906	Republican	Skowhegan

Fred J. Allen	1907	1908	Republican	Sanford

Luere B. Deasy	1909	1910	Republican	Bar Harbor

Nathan Clifford	1911	1912	Democratic	Cape Elizabeth

Carl E. Milliken	1913	1914	Republican	Island Falls

Ira G. Hersey	1915	1916	Republican	Houlton

Taber D. Bailey	1917	1918	Republican	Bangor

Leon F. Higgins	1919	1920	Republican	Brewer

Percival Baxter	1921	1921	Republican	Portland

Charles E. Gurney	1921	1922	Republican	Portland

Frank G. Farrington	1923	1924	Republican	Augusta

Hodgdon C. Buzzell	1925	1926	Republican	Belfast

Frank H. Holley	1927	1928	Republican	North Anson

J. Blaine Morrison	1929	1930	Republican	Phillips

Burleigh Martin	1931	1932	Republican	Augusta

Harold H. Murchie	1933	1934	Republican	Calais

Harold E. Weeks	1935	1936	Republican	Fairfield

Frederick J. Burns	1937	1938	Republican	Houlton

Sumner Sewall	1939	1940	Republican	Bath

Nathaniel Thompkins	1941	1942	Republican	Houlton

Francis H. Friend	1942	1942	Republican	Skowhegan

Horace A. Hildreth	1942	1944	Republican	Cumberland

George D. Varney	1944	1948	Republican	Kittery

Burton M. Cross	1948	1952	Republican	Augusta

Nathaniel M. Haskell	1953	1954	Republican	Portland

John F. Ward	1954	1954	Republican	Millinocket

Robert Haskell	1954	1958	Republican	Bangor

John H. Reed	1958	1960	Republican	Fort Fairfield

Earle M. Hillman	1960	1962	Republican	Bangor

Robert A. Marden	1962	1964	Republican	Waterville

Carlton Day Reed, Jr.	1964	1966	Democratic	Woolwich

Joseph Campbell	1966	1968	Republican	Augusta

Kenneth P. MacLeod	1968	1974	Republican	Brewer

Joseph Sewall	1974	1982	Republican	Old Town

Gerard Conley	1982	1984	Democratic	Portland

Charles P. Pray	1984	1992	Democratic	Millinocket

Dennis L. Dutremble	1992	1994	Democratic	Biddeford

Jeffrey Butland	1994	1996	Republican	Cumberland

Mark Lawrence	1996	2000	Democratic	Kittery

Mike Michaud	2000	2001	Democratic	East Millinocket

Richard A. Bennett	2001	2002	Republican	Norway

Beverly Daggett	2002	2004	Democratic	Augusta

Beth Edmonds	2004	2008	Democratic	Freeport

Libby Mitchell	2008	2010	Democratic	Vassalboro

Kevin Raye	2010	2012	Republican	Perry

Justin Alfond	2012	2014	Democratic	Portland

Michael Thibodeau	2014	2018	Republican	Winterport

Troy Jackson	2018	Democratic	Allagash

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Butland was elected as President of the Maine Senate in 1994 and became the first Republican in that position since 1982.

final_sentence: Butland was elected as President of the Maine Senate in 1994 and became the first Republican in that position since 1982.