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Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888–December 25, 1961) was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, was solidly right-wing and was a close confidant of the infamous Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.Brewster was born in Dexter, the son of William Edmund Brewster, a member of the Maine House of Representatives, and Carrie S. Bridges. He graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1909, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. From 1909 to 1910, Brewster was the principal of Castine High School, and then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1913.
In 1915, he married Dorothy Foss; from 1915 to 1923, he was a member of the Portland School Committee. From 1914 to 1925, Brewster was a lawyer for the Chapman and Brewster law firm in Portland. He was elected to a two-year term as a member of the State House (1917-18, but resigned to enlist in the U.S. Army (Third Infantry unit of the Maine National Guard) when the nation entered World War I. Brewster served successively as private, second lieutenant, captain, and regimental adjutant, and returned to the State House after the war ended. He continued to be a House member from 1921 to 1922, when he was elected to the State Senate.
Brewster served in the Senate until 1925, when he became the Governor of Maine. Brewster served two terms as Governor, leaving office in 1929, losing the Republican nomination for a third term. In 1932, he was defeated for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but was elected from the Third District in 1935 and served until 1941, when he went on to the U.S. Seante. Brewster was reelected in 1946, but lost renomination in 1952. In the Senate, he was good friends with Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, as well Richard Nixon of California, who would go on to become President.
Brewster died unexpectedly of cancer in 1961 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Dexter, where his home is now the Brewster Inn, a bed and breakfast.
Brewster was a Christian Scientist. He was a member of the American Bar Association, Grange, the American Legion, the Freemasons, the Elks;, the Odd Fellows, and Delta Kappa Epsilon.
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