Owen Brewster
| Ralph Owen Brewster | |
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United States Senator from Maine |
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In office January 3, 1941 – December 31, 1952 |
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| Preceded by | Frederick Hale |
| Succeeded by | Frederick G. Payne |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 3rd district |
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In office January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1941 |
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| Preceded by | John G. Utterback |
| Succeeded by | Frank Fellows |
| 54th Governor of Maine | |
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In office January 7, 1925 – January 2, 1929 |
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| Preceded by | Percival Proctor Baxter |
| Succeeded by | William Tudor Gardiner |
| Member of the Maine Senate | |
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In office 1922–1925 |
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| Member of the Maine House of Representatives | |
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In office 1917–1918 1921–1922 |
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| Born | February 22, 1888 Dexter, Maine |
| Died | December 25, 1961 (aged 73) Brookline, Massachusetts |
| Resting place | Mount Pleasant Cemetery Dexter, Maine |
| Political party | Republican |
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Bowdoin College Harvard Law School |
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| Allegiance |
 United States Maine
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| Service/branch | United States National Guard |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | Maine |
Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, served as the 54th Governor of Maine from 1925 to 1929, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941 and in the U.S. Senate from 1941 to 1952. Brewster was a close confidant of Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and an antagonist of Howard Hughes.
Owen (he preferred to be known by his middle name) Brewster was born in Dexter, Maine, the son of William Edmund Brewster, a member of the Maine House of Representatives, and Carrie S. Bridges. He was a direct lineal descendant of Love Brewster, a passenger aboard the Mayflower and a founder of the town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts; and of his father Elder William Brewster, the Pilgrim colonist leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony, and passenger aboard the Mayflower and one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
He graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1909, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Delta Kappa Epsilon. From 1909 to 1910, Brewster was the principal of Castine High School, and then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1913.
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