Frederick G. Payne

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name =Frederick George Payne


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order =60th
office =Governor of Maine
term_start =January 5, 1949
term_end =December 24, 1952
predecessor =Horace A. Hildreth
successor =Burton M. Cross
order2 =United States Senator
from Maine
term_start2 =January 3, 1953
term_end2 =January 3, 1959
predecessor2 =Owen Brewster
successor2 =Edmund Muskie
birth_date =July 24, 1904
birth_place =Lewiston, Maine
death_date =June 15, 1978
death_place =Waldoboro, Maine
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party =Republican
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alma_mater =Bentley College
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Frederick George Payne (July 24 1904ndash June 15 1978) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Maine. He was born in Lewiston, Maine.

Payne was mayor of Augusta, Maine before being elected Governor in 1948. He was reelected as Governor in 1950 and in 1952 was elected to the U.S. Senate.

His senate campaign was financed largely by Howard Hughes, whose life and works had been put under a microscope by incumbent Ralph Owen Brewster and Senator Joseph McCarthy. fact|date=November 2007

Payne was defeated for reelection in 1958 by the Democrat, Ed Muskie. He died in 1978 in Waldoboro, Maine, aged 73.

succession box
before=Horace A. Hildreth
years=1949–1952
after=Burton M. Cross
title=Governor of MaineU.S. Senator box
state=Maine
class=1
before=Ralph O. Brewster
years=1953–1959
after=Edmund S. Muskie
alongside=Margaret Chase Smith
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