Stanley Roger TUPPER, Congress, ME (1921-2006)

TUPPER Stanley Roger , a Representative from Maine; 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 the Maine state legislature, 1953-1954; assistant state attorney general, 1959-1960; Maine state commissioner of the Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries, 1953-1957; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966; appointed United States Commissioner General with rank of Ambassador to the Canadian World Exhibition in 1967; resumed the practice of law in 1968; United States Commissioner, International Commission for Northeast Atlantic Fisheries, 1975-1976; died on January 6, 2006, in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present