Admitted
1960, Maine and District of Columbia
Law School
Georgetown University Law Center, LL.B., 1960
Law School Graduation Year
1960
College
Bowdoin College, B.A., 1954
Biographical
Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, 1960-1962. Executive Assistant to Senator Muskie, 1962-1965. Assistant County Attorney, Cumberland County, Maine, 1971. U.S. Attorney, Maine, 1977-1979. U.S. District Judge, 1979-1980. U.S. Senator, Maine, 1980-1995. Majority Leader, U.S. Senate, 1988-1995. Chairman, International Crisis Group. Chairman, Northern Ireland Peace Talks. Author: World on Fire , 1990; Not for America Alone: The Triumph of Democracy and the Fall of Communism , 1997; Making Peace , 1999. Winner, Philadelphia Liberty Medal, 1998; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1999; The Truman Institute Peace Prize, 1999; German Peace Prize, 1999. (Also Special Counsel, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chartered, Washington, D.C.)
Military
With U.S. Army, 1954-1956