FIDDLEHEAD FOCUS • May 21, 2022
Maine’s longest serving legislator, John Martin was first elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1964 when he was 23. He has served a variety of posts since then, and will leave office in November due not to age, but term limits. His work to secure the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, distinct University of Maine campuses and an unsuccessful effort to establish the Dickey-Lincoln dam made him a household name along with politicians such as Edmund Muskie and George Mitchell. But Martin never lost his connection to the town of Eagle Lake.