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  Cormier, Lucia M.
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NameLucia M. Cormier
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Rumford, Maine , United States
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Born November 20, 1909
DiedJanuary 26, 1993 (83 years)
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Jun 29, 2019 01:54pm
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InfoExactly four decades ago this Tuesday Rumford's Lucia Cormier made the cover of TIME because her candidacy for Maine's US Senate seat resulted in the first all female US Senate race, Cormier sharing the cover with incumbent Margaret Chase Smith. The event that catapulted Rumford's Cormier to TIME's cover has only happened twice since, the latest being in 1998 when Patty Murray (derided by an earlier advisary as a "Mom in tennis shoes") defended her Washington state seat against a challenge from GOP Congresswoman Linda Smith.

Though today it is Margaret Chase Smith who is remembered and Cormier who is forgotten the one-time French teacher at Rumford's Stephens High and Columbia masters degree recipient had already assembled an accomplished public service resume by the time of her 1960 bid for the US Senate, by which time she was in her sixth term in the Maine House, then serving as the Democratic House Floor Leader, the first woman of either party to fill the position. Lorin Arnold, dean of Maine political columnists, referred to Cormier as "the most efficient, most sincere, and hardest-working woman legislator ever to grace the legislative scene."

Cormier had not only educational and political acumen but was also known for her retail business establishment, one she opened after she gave up teaching in 1945. Those in the know among old timers of downtown Rumford today recall her stationery and office supply store on Upper Congress Street. "Go to Cormier's," was the motto of many Rumford area business and professional people who sought out the well stocked inventory of the store she ran in the years following her teaching career during her part-time state legislative service.




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  11/08/1960 ME US Senate Lost 38.35% (-23.30%)
  06/20/1960 ME US Senate - D Primary Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  09/11/1950 ME District 1 Lost 45.99% (-8.01%)
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