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33rd Governor of Maine, United States
Sidney Perham
Secretary of State of Maine
In office
1875
Preceded byGeorge B. Stacy
Succeeded byS. J. Chadbourne
33rd Governor of Maine
In office
January 4, 1871 – January 7, 1874
Preceded byJoshua L. Chamberlain
Succeeded byNelson Dingley, Jr.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Maine's 2nd district
In office
March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1869
Preceded byT.A.D. Fessenden
Succeeded bySamuel P. Morrill
Member of the Maine House of Representatives
In office
1854
Personal details
Born(1819-03-27)March 27, 1819
Woodstock, Massachusetts, U.S. (now Maine)
DiedApril 10, 1907(1907-04-10) (aged 88)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyRepublican
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Sidney Perham (March 27, 1819 – April 10, 1907) was a U.S. Representative and the 33rd Governor of Maine and was an activist in the temperance movement.

Biography

Born in Woodstock (in modern-day Maine, then a part of Massachusetts) to Joel and Sophronia Bisbee Perham, Perham attended common schools as a child, engaged in agricultural pursuits and briefly attended Bates College, but left to pursue a passion for agriculture. He was elected a member of the Maine Board of Agriculture in 1853, was a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1854, serving as Speaker of the House that one year, and was clerk of the courts of Oxford County, Maine, from 1859 to 1863. He was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1862, serving from 1863 to 1869, not being a candidate for renomination in 1868. There, Perham served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions from 1865 to 1869. He served as president of the board of trustees of Westbrook Seminary in Deering, Maine, from 1865 to 1880. In September 1870, Perham was elected Governor of Maine, serving from 1871 to 1874. He replaced former American Civil War General Joshua Chamberlain as governor. He was president of the board of trustees of Maine Industrial School in Hallowell, Maine, from 1873 to 1898 and was Secretary of State of Maine in 1875. Perham served as a fellow at Bates College from 1871 to 1873. Perham served as appraiser in the United States Customhouse in Portland, Maine, from 1877 to 1885 and was a member of the board of trustees of the Universalist General Convention for twenty-seven years, serving as its president for some time. He died in Washington, D.C., on April 10, 1907 and was interred in Lakeside Cemetery in Bryant Pond, Maine.

References and external links

References

  1. General Catalogue of Bates College and Cobb Divinity School, 1863-1915 by Bates College Lewiston, Me, Me Lewiston, Cobb Divinity School Lewiston, Me, Cobb Divinity School, Bates College (Lewiston, Me.) Cobb divinity school, Me.) Bates College (Lewiston, Published by The College, 1915)
  2. "District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7TD-M65 : 3 December 2014), Sidney Perham, 1907.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byThomas A. D. Fessenden Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Maine's 2nd congressional district
March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1869 		Succeeded bySamuel P. Morrill
Political offices
Preceded byJoshua L. Chamberlain Governor of Maine
1871–1874 		Succeeded byNelson Dingley, Jr.
Preceded byGeorge B. Stacy Secretary of State of Maine
1875 		Succeeded byS.J. Chadbourne
Party political offices
Preceded byJoshua Chamberlain Republican nominee for Governor of Maine
1870, 1871, 1872 		Succeeded byNelson Dingley Jr.
Governors of Maine


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