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Ralph Perkins (Maine politician)

American politician from Maine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ113662486 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ralph Linwood Perkins Sr. (1888–1967) was an American farmer and politician from Maine. Perkins, a Republican, served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1919–20 and the Maine Senate from 1927-28.

In June 1928, Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon DeForest H. Perkins of Portland resigned following the defeat of Klan-backed candidates Ralph Owen Brewster for U.S. Senate and John Smith for governor. Ralph Perkins (no relation) was mentioned as possible replacement as Grand Dragon.

In 1941, Perkins was a vocal proponent of the Townsend Plan.

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“Ralph Perkins (Maine politician)” enters the record as american politician from Maine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ralph, Perkins and Maine can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1888, 1967, 1919, 1927—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ralph, Perkins and Maine.
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“Ralph Perkins (Maine politician)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ralph, Perkins and Maine provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113662486. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1888, 1967, 1919 and 1927.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ralph Perkins (Maine politician)” 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.