Jane Muskie

Jane Muskie
Muskie in 1968
First Lady of Maine
In role January 5, 1955 – January 2, 1959
Governor	Edmund Muskie
Preceded by	Olena Moulton Cross
Personal details
Born	Jane Frances Gray (1927-02-12)February 12, 1927 Waterville, Maine, U.S.
Died	December 25, 2004(2004-12-25) (aged 77) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Resting place	Arlington National Cemetery
Political party	Democratic (prev. Republican)
Spouse	Edmund Muskie ​ ​ (m. 1948; died 1996)​
Children	Five
Parent(s)	Millage Guy Gray (father) Myrtie May Jackson (mother)
Residence	The Blaine House (official)
Education	Waterville High School

Jane Frances Muskie (née Gray; February 12, 1927 – December 25, 2004) was an American civic leader and writer who, as the wife of Edmund Muskie, served as First Lady of Maine from 1955 to 1959. She was an active campaigner for her husband, supporting his political career on both state and national levels while he served in the Maine House of Representatives, as Governor of Maine, as a United States senator, and as Secretary of State.

During the 1972 United States presidential election, content republished by William Loeb III in the Manchester Union Leader "depicted her smoking, drinking, cussing, and generally behaving in a way conservative New Hampshire voters might not think becoming".^[1] Her husband called Loeb a "gutless coward" in an emotional public display that ultimately lost him the 1972 Democratic presidential primary.

Inspired by her time in Washington, D.C., Muskie co-wrote a novel, with Abigail McCarthy, in 1986 about corruption and back-door politics titled One Woman Lost. After her husband's political career ended, they moved to Bethesda, Maryland. Muskie died there in 2004 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease and was buried, next to her husband, in Arlington National Cemetery.