Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an
American politician
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from
Maine
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. Brewster, a
Republican, served as the 54th
governor of Maine
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from 1925 to 1929, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941 and in the U.S. Senate from 1941 to 1952. Brewster was a close
confidant
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of
Joseph McCarthy
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of
Wisconsin
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and an antagonist of
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American Aerospace engineering, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was The World's Billionaires, one of the richest and most influential peo ...
. He was defeated by
Frederick G. Payne
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, whose campaign was heavily funded by Hughes, in the 1952 Republican primary.
Early years

Ralph Owen Brewster was born in
Dexter, Maine
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, the son of
William E. Brewster, a banker, grocery store owner and member of the
Maine House of Representatives
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, and Carrie S. Bridges. He was a direct lineal descendant of
Love Brewster, a passenger aboard the Mayflower and a founder of the town of
Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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; and of his father Elder
William Brewster, the Pilgrim colonist leader and spiritual elder of the
Plymouth Colony
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, and passenger aboard the
Mayflower
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and one of the signers of the
Mayflower Compact
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.
[Jones 1908, p. 143.][Jones 1908, p. 144.][Jones 1908, p. 280.]
He graduated ''
summa cum laude
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'' from
Bowdoin College
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in 1909, a member of
Phi Beta Kappa
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and
Delta Kappa Epsilon
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. From 1909 to 1910, Brewster was the principal of
Castine High School, and then attended
Harvard Law School
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, graduating in 1913.
In 1915, he married Dorothy Foss, and 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
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. He also served as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce-affiliated "Committee of 100" which, in 1923, instituted a significant overhaul of Portland city government.
Early political career
Brewster was elected to a two-year term as a member of the
Maine House of Representatives
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in 1916, but resigned to enlist in the Third Infantry unit of the
Maine National Guard
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when the nation entered
World War I
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. He served successively as
private
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,
second lieutenant,
captain
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, and
regimental adjutant
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, and returned to the Maine House after the war ended. He continued to be a State House member from 1921 to 1922, when he was elected to the
Maine Senate
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. Brewster served in the State Senate until 1925.
Brewster ran for
Governor of Maine
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The current governor of Maine is J ...
in 1924, and his Democratic opponent,
William Robinson Pattangall, made Klan support for Brewster the centerpiece of his campaign. Although Brewster denied any involvement with the Ku Klux Klan, a number of Klan members openly supported him. Pattangall lost, but Brewster was also accused of Klan sympathies from within his own party, most notably by former Maine governor and fellow Republican
Percival P. Baxter. Brewster's governorship would so split the Maine Republican Party that he denounced his own party's candidate in the U.S. Senate election in 1926. Republican
Arthur R. Gould won anyway after running on an anti-Klan campaign, signaling the limits of the Klan's power in Maine politics.
Brewster challenged incumbent Senator
Frederick Hale in the Republican primary in 1928 for that year's Senate race, losing to Hale.
Contested election of 1932
Brewster served two terms as governor, leaving office in 1929 after he lost the 1928 Republican nomination for
U.S. Senate
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. In 1932, he was defeated for a seat in the
U.S. House of Representatives
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, after a bitterly fought campaign against Democrat
John G. Utterback from
Bangor where Brewster also had a law office. Although Bangor was the largest city in Brewster's congressional district, his support came mainly from smaller towns. As one Maine newspaper put it in 1923, "the rank and file (of Republicans in Bangor) are decidedly, positively, and all-the-time anti-Brewster." Brewster accused Utterback and the Democratic Party of throwing the vote in certain predominantly Franco-American (i.e. Catholic-majority) towns in
Aroostook County
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, and took that accusation first to state authorities and then to the U.S. Congress itself, where he tried to prevent Utterback from being seated. Although unsuccessful, Utterback was kept so much on the defensive that Brewster managed to defeat him in the 1934 election. Brewster served in the House until 1941, when he went on to the
U.S. Senate
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. Brewster was re-elected to the Senate in 1946.
Congressional career, opposition to New Deal, and post-war McCarthyism
During his time in Congress, Brewster worked on legislation to provide old-age pensions (the forerunner of
Social Security
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) although he was a prominent opponent of welfare and spending programs in
President Roosevelt's New Deal
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. As Senator, Brewster sat on several committees, notably the Special Senate Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program (the
Truman Committee
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), and the Joint Committee to Investigate the
attack on Pearl Harbor
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. At the time these were very high profile and Brewster's work on those committees did much to raise his profile in Washington.
Brewster played a role in defeating the signature New Deal project in his own district of Maine, a multibillion-dollar tidal power development planned for
Passamaquoddy Bay
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. Supported by President Roosevelt, whose summer home on
Campobello was within sight of the project area, Brewster initially seemed to be an ally. In 1935, however, he publicly accused a New Deal attorney,
Thomas Corcoran, of threatening to kill the project unless Brewster favored the administration on a related vote reining in private utilities. Corcoran denied the charge in the public hearing that followed, Brewster shouting out "liar" at one point in the proceedings. While Brewster's accusation made it appear that he was still supportive, and that the Roosevelt administration was placing the development in jeopardy, the project's supporters believed he was playing a double game. In the town of
Lubec, adjacent to the development site, a crowd of over 200 hung Brewster in effigy with a sign around his neck reading "our double-crossing Congressman."
The support Brewster had received early-on from the
Ku Klux Klan
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had cost him considerable support from within his own Republican party. In the post-war Senate, Brewster befriended Senator
Joseph McCarthy
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of
Wisconsin
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, and his association with
McCarthyism
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further eroded Brewster's political support in Maine as McCarthy's
anti-communist
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show-trials became increasingly unpopular. One of McCarthy's major opponents was another Republican member of Maine's congressional delegation,
Margaret Chase Smith
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, whose late husband,
Clyde H. Smith, had been a foe of Brewster and the Klan in the
Maine Legislature
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of the 1920s.
Opposition to Howard Hughes
Brewster came to national attention due to his opposition to the commercial interests of
Howard Hughes
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, America's wealthiest person at the time. In 1947, Brewster was chairman of the
special Senate committee investigating defense procurement during
World War II
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. He claimed concern that Hughes had received $40 million from the
War Department without actually delivering the aircraft he had contracted to provide, but Hughes countered that Brewster was motivated by his connections to
Pan-American Airways
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, the rival to Hughes's
Trans World Airlines
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.
Hughes aggressively combatted the inquiring Brewster, alleging that the senator was corrupt. Memoirs by Hughes's right-hand man
Noah Dietrich
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and syndicated newspaper columnist
Jack Anderson each sketched Brewster as, in Dietrich's words, "an errand boy for
Juan Trippe
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and
Pan American World Airways
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," who pushed for legislation that would give Pan Am the single-carrier international air
monopoly
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for the U.S. The
Martin Scorsese
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movie ''
The Aviator'' portrays Brewster (played by
Alan Alda
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) similarly, as corrupt and in the pocket of Pan Am, the rival of Hughes'
TWA
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. Hughes spread rumors about Brewster's close association with Pan Am, alleging that he received free flights and hospitality in return for legislation such as his bill to withdraw government approval for TWA flights across the Atlantic.
In a Senate hearing that electrified the nation, Hughes repeated his accusations that Brewster had promised an end to the Senate inquiry if Hughes would agree to merging TWA with Pan Am. (Dietrich wrote that Hughes, in a bid to stall for time before the hearing, went so far as to launch negotiations with Trippe about such a merger.) In response, Brewster, stung by the allegations, stood aside from chairing the inquiry and became instead a witness before the committee – which also allowed Hughes to question Brewster directly. Brewster denied Hughes' allegations and made several counter-claims, but by the time the hearing ended Brewster's reputation had suffered greatly. Ironically, Hughes, for all his wealth, came across as what Dietrich described as the "little guy" who "fought City Hall and won."
In 1952, Hughes worked hard to ensure Brewster's political demise, persuading the then-Governor of Maine,
Frederick G. Payne
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, to challenge him in the Republican primary. Armed with $60,000 of campaign funds from Hughes, Payne challenged Brewster.
[ Payne proceeded to connect Brewster with ]McCarthyism
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and racist
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groups and also took up Hughes' claims that Brewster was corrupt. This led to the unusual defeat of an incumbent Senator in his own primary
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. Brewster resigned his seat in December 1952 and was succeeded by Payne, who would only last one term, being defeated by Edmund Muskie
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in 1958.
Retirement and later years
In his retirement Brewster continued active involvement in many conservative organizations. Brewster was a Christian Scientist
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and served a one-year term in the largely honorary role as President of The First Church of Christ, Scientist
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in Boston for 1932–1933. He was a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Portland, Maine for many years, and later helped establish a Christian Science Society in Dexter, Maine.[''Christian Science Sentinel'', June 18, 1932 issue.] Brewster was a member of the American Bar Association
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, Grange
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, the American Legion
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, the Freemasons
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, the Elks
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, the Odd Fellows
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, and Delta Kappa Epsilon
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.
Brewster died unexpectedly of cancer on Christmas Day, 1961 in Brookline, Massachusetts
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. He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Dexter, Maine
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where his home, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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, was converted to the Brewster Inn, a bed and breakfast
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''Bed and breakfast'' is also used to ...
.
Popular culture
In 2004, Brewster was portrayed by Alan Alda
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in '' The Aviator''. Alda was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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for his performance, but lost to Morgan Freeman
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for ''Million Dollar Baby
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''.
Notes
References
Further reading
* Anderson, Jack and James Boyd. ''Confessions of a Muckraker''. New York: Random House Incorporated, 1979. .
* Dietrich, Noah and Bob Thomas. ''Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes''. Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcet, 1972. .
* Jones, Emma and C. Brewster. ''The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: a Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower," ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.'' New York: Grafton Press. 1908
External links
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