University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 1-1-1979 Pine tree politics : Maine political party battles, 1820-1972. Whitmore Barron Garland University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1 Recommended Citation Garland, Whitmore Barron, "Pine tree politics : Maine political party battles, 1820-1972." (1979). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 1907. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1/1907 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. PINE TREE POLITICS MAINE POLITICAL PARTY BATTLES, 1620-1972 A Dissertation Presented By WHITMORE BARRON GARLAND Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Lassachusetts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 1979 Political Science Whitmore Barron Garland 1979 All Rights Reserved ii PINE TREE POLITICS MAINE POLITICAL PARTY 3ATTLES, 1620-1972 A Dissertation Presented By WHITMORE BARRON GARLAND Approved as to style and content by: iii . ACKNOWLEDGMENT An effort of this kind requires the help of many. It is impossible to thank them all. I appreciate the assistance of John H. Fenton, who provided the inspiration and direction. The other mem- bers of my committee, Harvey Friedman and James Wright, made comments and suggestions that were well taken. I am also grateful for the help of the library staffs of Bowdoin College, the University of Maine, and the University of Massachusetts .But most especially the debt is to my family.