Arthur R. Gould | |
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| United States Senator from Maine | |
| In office November 30, 1926 – March 3, 1931 | |
| Preceded by | Bert M. Fernald |
| Succeeded by | Wallace H. White Jr. |
| Member of the Maine Senate from the 16th district | |
| In office January 5, 1921 – January 3, 1923 | |
| Preceded by | Seth S. Thornton |
| Succeeded by | Allen C. T. Wilson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Arthur Robinson Gould March 16, 1857 Corinth, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | July 24, 1946 (aged 89) Presque Isle, Maine, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Mary Frances Donovan |
| Children | 3 |
Arthur Robinson Gould (March 16, 1857 – July 24, 1946) was an American industrialist involved in lumber, railroads, hydroelectricity, and other large scale industry in Aroostook County, Maine and the neighboring Canadian province of New Brunswick from the 1880s until his death in 1946. From 1926 to 1931, he served as a Republican United States senator from Maine. Prior to being elected to the Senate, he had stated that he was in favor of maintaining the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol. However, once in office, he became nationally known for writing in favor of the legalization of wine and beer.[1]
Born in Corinth, Maine, he attended the common schools and East Corinth Academy. He moved first to Bangor, Maine, where he opened a candy factory and met Mary Frances Donovan, who became his wife. They moved to Presque Isle, Maine, in 1887, where he engaged in the lumber business and built power plants and an electric railroad. He was president of the Aroostook Valley Railroad from 1902 to 1946.
Gould served in the Maine Senate from 1921 to 1922, and was elected on September 13, 1926, as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bert M. Fernald and served from November 30, 1926, to March 3, 1931. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1930. During his time in office he served as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Immigration for the 71st Congress.
He was blind for approximately six years prior to his death at his home in Presque Isle in 1946. He is interred at Bangor's Mount Pleasant Cemetery alongside his wife.