Portrait of Maine Supreme Judicial Court Justice Frederick Alton Powers.

Frederick Alton Powers (June 19, 1855 in Pittsfield, Maine – February 13, 1923)[1] was Attorney General of Maine from 1893 to 1897 and a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from January 2, 1900 to 1907.[2]

Powers graduated from Maine Central Institute in 1871,[1] and from Bowdoin College in 1875, and read law with his brother Llewellyn in Houlton, Maine.[2]

He served in the Maine State Legislature from 1885 to 1889,[2] and in the Maine State Senate from 1891 to 1892.[1]

Powers owned significant amounts of real estate, such that it was said:

He ([Llewellyn Powers]) can count his possessions by the township, and they aggregate no less than one hundred and ninety thousand acres. The holdings of himself and his brother, Hon. Frederick A. Powers, attorney-general of Maine, amount to a quarter of a million acres.[3]

He died in his winter home in Florida.[2]

Family

Powers was the son of Arba Powers and Naomi Matthews Powers. On June 6, 1879, he married May Hussey.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Powers, Frederick Alton in Who's Who in America, 1901-1902 edition; via archive.org.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Frederick Alton Powers, Houlton, ca. 1900".
  3. ↑ The New England Magazine (1896), Volume 19, page 71.


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