district residence state_senate party preceded birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name
augusta augusta , maine maine democratic beverly bustin 1945 1996 tom daggett beverly daggett
 2004 beverly daggett
beverly daggett

beverly c. daggett -lrb- born 1945 -rrb- is a maine politician currently serving as a commissioner of kennebec county .
daggett , a democrat , represented state capital augusta in the maine house of representatives for five terms -lrb- 1986 -- 1996 -rrb- before being elected to the maine state senate in 1996 .
she served in the senate from 1996-2004 .
in 2002 , she was elected 111th president of the maine senate .
she was the first woman to serve as senate president .
in 1996 , daggett received a donated kidney from her mother .
in 2008 , it was reported that she needed another kidney and was receiving dialysis treatment .
