Government
- Holman S. Melcher, attended from 1858–62, Civil War hero at the Battle of Gettysburg with the 20th Maine, mayor of Portland Maine (1889–90)
- John P. Swasey, 1857–1859, U.S. Representative from Maine (1908–1911)
- John T. Abbott, Class of 1871, U.S. Minister to Colombia (1889)
- George Smith, Class of 1873, three time president of the Massachusetts Senate
- Henry Chandler, Class of 1874, African American politician, state senator from Florida (1880–1884) link
- Albert Spear, Class of 1875, President of the Maine Senate, Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
- Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Class of 1881 (transferred), U.S. Representative 1911-1917, Mayor of Lewiston
- Louis Penick Clinton (Lewis Clinton), Class of 1897 (Divinity School), Prince Somayou of the Bassa tribe of West Africa
- Carl E. Milliken, Class of 1897, Governor of Maine (1917–1921)
- Sawin Millett, Maine State Representative and multiple time member of Maine cabinet
- Carroll L. Beedy, Class of 1903, U.S. Representative from Maine (1921–1935)
- Charles R. Clason, Class of 1911, Rhodes Scholar, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1937–1949)
- Donald B. Partridge, Class of 1914, U.S. Representative from Maine (1931–1933)
- Edmund S. Muskie, Class of 1936, Governor of Maine (1955–1959), U.S. Senator from Maine (1959–1980) and U.S. Secretary of State (1980–1981)
- Frank M. Coffin, Class of 1940, U.S. Representative from Maine (1957–1961)
- Leo Ryan, attended 1943 for Naval (V-12) training during World War II, U.S. Representative from California (1973–1978), killed in the Jonestown Massacre
- Robert F. Kennedy, attended 1944-1945 for Naval (V-12) training during World War II, U.S. Attorney General (1961–1964), U.S. Senator from New York (1965–1968)
- Constance Berry Newman, Class of 1956, United States Assistant Secretary of State (2004–2005), assistant administrator of USAID, under secretary of Smithsonian Institution, assistant secretary of HUD
- Thomas P. Carey, Class of 1973, former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism section
- Robert Goodlatte, Class of 1974, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1993- )
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