Bradstreet, Seth Henry oral history interview, 2000

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Identifier: MOH 196

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Bradstreet, Seth Henry oral history interview

Scope and Contents

Interview includes discussions of: Bradstreet’s family and childhood; brief outline of Bradstreet’s career; Albion, Maine; early Maine Democrats; Muskie’s 1952 gubernatorial campaign; Republican response to Muskie in the 1950s; Bradstreet’s legislative elections; Bradstreet’s friends in the legislature; influential political families in Maine; Muskie’s impact on the environment; Maine sales tax; Muskie’s support for Bradstreet and his position as state director for Rural Development; Gayle Cory; George Mitchell; Ken Curtis; John Martin; Elmer Violette; and Perry Furbush.

Dates

2000

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Biographical / Historical

Seth Henry Bradstreet was born in 1933 in Albion, Maine. He attended the University of Maine, Orono and graduated in 1954. He taught in Corinna, Maine for a year and bought a farm in Newport, Maine, which he still operated at the time of this interview. Under Senators Muskie and Mitchell, he was appointed to serve as the state director for Rural Development (once known as the Farmer’s Home Administration), a position he still held at the time of this interview.