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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Stanley R. Tupper |
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Boothbay Harbor, Maine , United States |
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January 25, 1921
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| Died | January 06, 2006
(84 years)
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| Info | Stanley Roger Tupper
Elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1952, but resigned on June 10, 1953.
A Republican, Mr. Tupper was known as a strong advocate of the fishing industry and a supporter of the Coast Guard. He also developed a reputation as a renegade in the Republican ranks. He was one of two Republican sponsors for the Medicare Act in 1965. He also supported the civil rights and voting rights efforts of the mid-1960s.
In 1964, Nelson Rockefeller named him campaign manager in New England in his bid for the presidency. Rockefeller lost the nomination to Barry Goldwater, and Mr. Tupper broke with Republicans and declined to back the conservative senator from Arizona.
When Lyndon Johnson won the election in a landslide and broke the GOP's decades-long hold on Maine politics, Mr. Tupper was the only prominent Republican to win his election in the state.
He left Congress when President Johnson named him US commissioner general with the rank of ambassador to the Canadian World Exhibition in 1967.
Mr. Tupper led a life of distinguished service, US Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, and former Maine Governor John McKernan said in a statement.
A native of Boothbay Harbor, Mr. Tupper graduated from Hebron Academy in Maine and attended Middlebury College in Vermont.
He served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946 and earned a law degree from LaSalle Extension University in Chicago.
Mr. Tupper served in the Maine Legislature in 1953 and later held posts as assistant attorney general and state commissioner of sea and shore fisheries. After leaving Capitol Hill, he returned to Maine and shared a law practice with his wife, Jill Kaplan Tupper.
Although he never again ran for office -- he never actually lost an election -- Mr. Tupper remained an independent voice in Maine politics. He was a leading opponent of the Maine Yankee nuclear plant in Wiscasset. In 1992, he supported Bill Clinton for president, declining to back President Bush, despite his ties to Kennebunkport.
Among his proudest accomplishments was organizing the Boothbay Regional Lobstermen's Co-Op, Mrs. Tupper said.
He also co-wrote a book that analyzed US-Canadian relations and wrote a collection of memoirs.
But the most fun he ever had on the job, Mr. Tupper told his wife, was when he was a border patrolman in Texas and Maine.
''He was 21, they gave him a Stetson, a horse, and a badge, and no other job ever quite measured up to that," his widow said.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Tupper leaves a son and daughter. At his request, there will be no funeral service.born in Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln County, Maine, January 25, 1921; educated in Boothbay Harbor public schools, Hebron Academy, Hebron, Maine; Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., and LaSalle Extension University, Chicago, Ill.; served in the United States Navy September 1944-March 1946; member of board of selectmen of Boothbay Harbor in 1948, and served as chairman in 1949; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Maine in 1949, in the Federal district court in 1950, and before the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1952; member of State legislature, 1953; assistant State attorney general, 1959-1960; State Commissioner of the Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries, 1953-1957; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh, Eighty-eighth, and Eighty-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; appointed United States Commissioner General with rank of Ambassador to the Canadian World Exhibition in 1967; resumed the practice of law in 1968; United State Commissioner, International Commission for Northeast Atlantic Fisheries, 1975-1976; is a resident of Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
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