Carl Elias Milliken was a U.S. Republican and Progressive Party politician and an early notable figure in the motion picture industry. A native of Pittsfield, Maine, Milliken graduated from Bates College in 1897. He went on to receive his masters degree from Harvard University in 1899, before moving to Island Falls, Maine to enter the lumber business.

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  • Carl Elias Milliken was a U.S. Republican and Progressive Party politician and an early notable figure in the motion picture industry. A native of Pittsfield, Maine, Milliken graduated from Bates College in 1897. He went on to receive his masters degree from Harvard University in 1899, before moving to Island Falls, Maine to enter the lumber business. During the next six years, Milliken held positions as general manager of two lumber companies and an axe manufacturer and as president of a local telephone company. His political career began in 1905, when he was elected to the Maine House of Representatives. Milliken moved up to the Maine State Senate in 1909, and was president of that body from 1913 to 1915. Running for Governor of Maine as a Progressive Party candidate in 1916, Milliken easily defeated the Democratic Party incumbent, Oakley C. Curtis. He was reelected in 1918, this time by a smaller margin over Bertrand McIntire. Milliken was the first Governor to be nominated by direct primary. As Governor, he strictly enforced state and federal alcohol prohibition laws, which he strongly supported. Milliken left office on January 5, 1921. The following year, he became executive secretary and chief spokesman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association, the movie industry’s first self-censorship body. Milliken served as executive secretary for more than two decades, retiring in 1947. After stepping down from the MPAA, Milliken served as the managing trustee of Teaching Film Custodians, a trust for educational films, and also served a term as president of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. Milliken married twice. His first wife, the former Emma Chase, died in 1930. He then married her sister, Caroline Chase. With his first wife, Milliken had one son and six daughters.
  • Carl Elias Milliken war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und von 1917 bis 1921 Gouverneur von Maine.
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  • Carl Elias Milliken was a U.S. Republican and Progressive Party politician and an early notable figure in the motion picture industry. A native of Pittsfield, Maine, Milliken graduated from Bates College in 1897. He went on to receive his masters degree from Harvard University in 1899, before moving to Island Falls, Maine to enter the lumber business.
  • Carl Elias Milliken war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und von 1917 bis 1921 Gouverneur von Maine.
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