This quickly became known through the country as " the Maine Law ," and propelled Dow to national fame.

In 1856 the Maine Law was repealed.

The Maine Law gained recognition internationally and was the inspiration for United Kingdom Alliance in Manchester, England.

The Massachusetts legislature passed a " Maine Law " in 1852 which was struck down a year later by that state's Supreme Court.

The next year, with a new governor, the legislature once again passed a " Maine Law " with a majority in both houses.

In 1853, Indiana passed a " Maine Law " which was invalidated by the state's supreme court.

Early the next year, the legislature re-passed the " Maine Law ," though it had spotty enforcement.

1855, the Iowa state legislature passed a " Maine Law " which was ratified by the people the same year.

Born in Bangor, Maine, McKernan attended Dartmouth College and then the University of Maine School of Law.

During this time, he moved to Portland, Maine to pursue graduate studies at the University of Maine School of Law.

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He was born in Sidney, studied law at the Litchfield, Connecticut Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1836 and began his practice at Calais, Maine.

Born in 1934 in Portland, Maine, Brennan attended Boston College and the University of Maine School of Law, and became Cumberland County District Attorney before winning election to the Maine House of Representatives ( 1965 – 1971 ) and the Maine Senate ( 1973 – 1975 ).

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* University of Maine School of Law

Judge Wisdom's former law clerks include U. S. Senator Lamar Alexander ; Judge William H. Pryor, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ; Judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ; Judge D. Brock Hornby of the United States District Court for the District of Maine ; U. S. Bankruptcy Judge Jerry Brown of the Eastern District of Louisiana ; U. S. Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky of the Eastern District of New York ; Justice Nora M. Manella of the California Court of Appeal ; Professor Philip Frickey of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law ; Professor Martha Field of Harvard Law School ; Ricki Tigert Helfer, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ; Jack Weiss, Chancellor of Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center ; Barry Sullivan, former dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law ; and Gail B. Agrawal, dean of the University of Iowa College of Law.

The ensuing report, created by Trent Lott and Christopher Dodd, issued in May 2003, cautioned that " It is too soon to determine the extent to which the goals of Maine ’ s and Arizona ’ s public financing programs are being met ... We are not making any recommendations in this report.

In 2008, a series of studies conducted by the Center for Competitive Politics, an organization whose mission is to " oppose so-called reformers ’ efforts to limit campaign contributions taxpayer funded political campaigns " found that the programs in Maine, Arizona, and New Jersey had failed to accomplish their stated goals, including electing more women, reducing government spending, reducing special interest influence on elections, bringing more diverse backgrounds into the legislature, or meeting most other stated objectives, including increasing competition or voter participation.

* Eastern: based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Eastern Region ( R9 ) covers twenty states ( Maine, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey ), seventeen National Forests, one Grassland and America ’ s Outdoors Center for Conservation, Recreation, and Resources.

* Kate Cheney Chappell ’ 67, artist and co-founder, Tom's of Maine

On Abbé Petit ’ s advice, Father Louis-Pierre Thury went to settle at Pentagouet ( Castine, Maine ) in 1690, near Jean-Vincent d ’ Abbadie de Saint-Castin, where he remained eight years.

" He sued for ownership of Crowley ’ s copyrights, which were denied to him by the U. S. District Court in Maine.

Newsweek writes that White reads the story “ without artifice and with a mellow charm ,” and that “ White also has a plangency that will make you weep, so don ’ t listen ( at least, not to the sad parts ) while driving .” Joe Berk, president of Pathway Sound, had recorded Charlotte ’ s Web with White in White ’ s neighbor's house in Maine ( which Berk describes as an especially memorable experience ) and released the book in LP.

The youth Maine Chief of Staff will be a member of the Governor ’ s Cabinet.

Lnu ( the adjectival and singular noun, previously spelled " L ' nu "; the plural is Lnúk, Lnu ’ k, Lnu ’ g, or Lnùg ) is the self-recognized term for the Míkmaq of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Maine, meaning " human being " or " the people ".

The 20th Maine ’ s action in holding the hill has been credited with helping to turn the tide of the war.

In present-day Maine, the Mi ’ kmaq and the Maliseet raided numerous New England villages.

UNE ’ s Biddeford Campus is also home to the George and Barbara Bush Center and Legacy Collection, which houses material anchoring the Bush legacy in Maine, including memorabilia on loan from the George H. W.

Katahdin is referred to 60 years after Field ’ s climb of Agiokochuk ( Mount Washington ) in the writings of John Gyles, a teenage colonist who was captured near Portland, Maine in 1689 by the Abenaki.

' And it follows that when they returned to Boston they were sailing upwind ; many Mainers still speak of going ' up to Boston ,' despite the fact that the city lies approximately 50 miles to the south of Maine ’ s southern border.

But Mount Katahdin Park will be the state ’ s crowning glory, a worthy memorial to commemorate the end of the first and the beginning of the second century of Maine ’ s statehood.

The dispute between New Hampshire and Maine over ownership of Seavey ’ s Island was settled by the U. S. Supreme Court in 2001, locating the state border at the center of the river's navigable channel.

According to an environmental group, the Native Forest Network ( NFN ), if approved by the Land Use Regulation Commission, Plum Creek ’ s plan would increase Maine ’ s total carbon emissions by nearly 8 %.

As of January 2009, the group has provided free legal representation to more than 700 clients ranging from the Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund, and the American Lung Association to smaller state and community groups, such as the Maine Lobstermen ’ s Association and the Friends of the Everglades.

During his second BCJHL season, in November 1991, he verbally committed to joining the Maine Black Bears of the National Collegiate Athletics Association ( NCAA )' s Hockey East conference for the 1992 – 93 campaign.

The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad opened between Montreal and Portland, Maine, on April 4, 1853 and was purchased four months later and absorbed into the Grand Trunk Railway ( GTR )' s system.

On October 7, 1673, Massachusetts, relying on a new survey of its northern border, and responding to the Dutch capture of New York in August 1673 as a result of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, claimed of the Duke of York ’ s territory east of the Kennebec River in present day Maine, including the Permaquid settlement, and established a new county there.

* Maine: Domestic partner and domestic partner ’ s child, siblings.

* Maine: Organ donor ; death of employee ’ s family member if that family member is a servicemember killed while on active duty.

He worked as a merchant ’ s clerk in Strafford 1825 – 1828 and in Portland, Maine, 1828 – 1831 ; merchant in Strafford 1831 – 1848 ; engaged in agriculture and horticulture 1848 – 1855.

Castle Rock, Maine is part of Stephen King ’ s fictional Maine topography and provides the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories.