(1915 – 1996) Liberal Democratic member of Congress (1946–51), governor (1955–9) and first elected Democratic senator from Maine (1959–80). Muskie ran unsuccessfully for vicepresident with Hubert Humphrey on the 1968 Democratic ticket. He lost his bid for the presidential nomination in 1972, in part because of perceptions that he cried when newspapers attacked his family. Lincolnesque in profile, Muskie was concerned by both social and environmental issues. He left the Senate in 1980 to serve briefly as Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State.