2 Quotes & Sayings By Edmund Muskie

Edmund S. Muskie was born in New York City in 1913. After graduating from Yale University in 1935, he worked as a journalist for the "New York World Telegram" before enrolling at Harvard Law School where he received his degree in 1940. He returned to New York City to practice law with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. In 1943, he entered public service by enlisting in the U.S Read more

Army Air Corps, serving as an intelligence officer during World War II. He later became chief counsel for the House Committee on Armed Services. He served in Congress from 1947 to 1971, when he was elected to the United States Senate, where he served until his death in 1979. He was defeated for reelection by Edward M.

Kennedy in 1978 by only 1,300 votes in the closest Senate race that year. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981 and posthumously elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.