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123rd Maine Senate

2007 to 2008 legislative session

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ16821101 ↗
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The 123rd Maine Senate had 35 members each elected to two-year terms in November 2006. The first regular session was sworn in on December 6, 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “123rd Maine Senate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.