Donald Francis Snow (1877-1958), a U.S. Representative was born in Bangor on September 6, 1877. He attended the public schools of his native city and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1901 and from the law school of the University of Maine at Orono in 1904. Snow was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Bangor. He was city solicitor of Bangor 1906-1910 and prosecuting attorney of Penobscot County 1911-1913.
Elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933), he was unsuccessful in his bid for renomination in 1932. Snow engaged in literary work in Washington, D.C. from 1933 to 1935, then moved to Gorham in 1936, where he was a poultry farmer until 1945.
Snow was secretary for the E.C. Jones Insurance Corporation in Portland and later had his own insurance business. He died in Gorham February 12, 1958, with interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland.
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Donald Francis Snow Congressional Biography: https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/21949 (accessed January 11, 2021)