page_title: Sanford, Maine
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Sanford, Maine / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: The square, looking from Main Street, Sanford, Maine
context_page_description: Sanford is a city in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 20,798 in the 2010 census, making it the seventh largest municipality in the state. Situated on the Mousam River, Sanford includes the village of Springvale. The city features many lakes in wooded areas which attract campers.
  Sanford is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area.
  On November 6, 2012, Sanford voters approved a new charter to re-incorporate Sanford as a city and replace the town meeting format with a city council/mayor/strong manager form of government, along with other changes. The new charter took effect on January 1, 2013. Sanford's new charter provides that the first mayor would be appointed from the ranks of Sanford's seven city councilors and serve interim for one-year period. On January 8, 2013, Maura A. Herlihy was appointed as Sanford's first mayor.
  In 2014, an elected-at-large mayor took office. On November 5, 2013, Thomas Cote was elected as mayor. Beginning in 2016, the mayoral position began being elected at-large every two years during legislative election cycles.
context_section_description: Frank Augustus Allen, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1877)
  Randy Brooks, musician
  Michael Richard Cote, Bishop of Norwich, Connecticut
  Nick Curran, musician
  Vic Firth, musician, businessman
  Louis B. Goodall, businessman, U.S. congressman
  Sumner Increase Kimball, organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service, founder of Coast Guard Academy
  Peter Kostis, golf instructor, sportscaster
  Raymond Luc Levasseur, member of the United Freedom Front
  Franz Lidz, journalist and author of the memoir Unstrung Heroes
  Freddy Parent, Major League Baseball shortstop (1899–1911)
  Mike McGinnis, composer, musician
  Patrick James McGinnis, investor, author
  Lawrence Lee Pelletier, 16th president of Allegheny College
  Amédée Wilfrid Proulx, Catholic bishop
  Joe Riggs, mixed martial arts fighter, UFC veteran
  Charles A. Shaw, 19th-century politician, inventor
  John Storer, the namesake of Storer College
  John Tuttle, state legislator
caption: View of the square in 1910
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