Horace A. Hildreth

DATE OF BIRTH:  December 2, 1902

PLACE OF BIRTH:  Gardiner

DATE OF DEATH:  June 2, 1988

PLACE OF DEATH:  Portland

PROFESSION:  Lawyer, Broadcasting Executive

POLITICAL AFFILIATION:  Republican

TERM IN OFFICE:  January 4, 1945 – January 6, 1949

FIRST LADY:  Katherine Wing

QUOTE: History surely teaches that when people refuse to face their responsibilities and embrace a philosophy which attempts to solve their problems by allowing undue concentration of power at the top they are traveling a road which leaves freedom and liberty behind and takes them toward a totalitarian form of government which, no matter under what name it parades, has always spelled disaster.

Inaugural Address, January 4, 1945

OTHER ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICES: State Representative, State Senator, President of Bucknell University, U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan