Saufley, Leigh

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After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Maine in 1976, and from the University of Maine School of Law in 1980, Leigh Saufley practiced in a small law firm in Ellsworth and served in the Maine Attorney General’s Office. She was appointed to the Maine District Court in 1990, to the Maine Superior Court…

Ruggles, John

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John Ruggles, courtesy Maine State Museum

John Ruggles (1789-1874) a Senator from Maine, born in Westboro, Massachusetts on October 8, 1789, attended the common schools, graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1813. He studied law was admitted to the bar and began his practice in Skowhegan in 1815. Ruggles moved to Thomaston, in 1817. A member of the…