(1908-1974) a U.S. Representative was born in Perham on May 4, 1908. He attended the public schools of Perham and Washburn High School, and was graduated from the University of Maine College of Agriculture at Orono in 1930.
McIntire engaged in farming at Perham from 1930 to 1952. He was an appraiser, supervisor, and regional manager for Farm Credit Administration in Springfield, Massachusetts (1933-1947), and an assistant general manager of Maine Potato Growers, Inc., at Presque Isle from 1947 to 1951.
He was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second Congress, by special election, October 22, 1951, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank Fellows. He was reelected to the six succeeding Congresses and served from October 22, 1951, to January 3, 1965. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1964 but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate that year.
He was the director of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Natural Resources Department; a member, President Nixon’s Task Force on Rural Development, 1969-1970; and a member of the Advisory Council of the Public Land Law Review Commission, 1969-1970. He was appointed by President Ford in September 1974 to the newly created United States Railway Association.
McIntire died in Bangor October 1, 1974, with interment in Fairview Cemetery, Perham.
Additional resources
Clifford Guy. McIntire Congressional Biography: https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000478 (accessed December 31, 2020)