Kenneth M. Curtis

Kenneth Merwin Curtis is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat from Maine. He was the secretary of State of Maine from 1965 to 1966, the 68th governor of Maine from 1967 to 1975, and the United States Ambassador to Canada from 1979 to 1981. Curtis is a member of the Democratic Party and was later Of counsel at the Curtis Thaxter law firm in Portland, Maine, which he founded in 1975. Since the death of George Nigh in July 2025, Curtis is the earliest serving living former American governor, and is the last living former American governor who assumed office in the 1960s.