1800

Thomas Jefferson

First Democratic President

1916

Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

Workingmen’s Compensation Act

1919

*Veterans’ Rehabilitation Act:

The G. I. Bill

*1920

Nineteenth Amendment

Women’s Suffrage

1932

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President

1932 - 1945

*1935

Social Security Act

Works Progress Administration

*1945

Harry S. Truman

President

1945 - 1954

1946

Employment Act

 *1948

Marshall Plan

*1949

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

(NATO)

1954

School Desegregation

Edmund S. Muskie - Governor of Maine

1960

John F. Kennedy

President

1960 - 1963

*1961

Peace Corps

NASA: Lunar Exploration

1963

Lyndon Baines Johnson

President

1963 - 1968

*1964

Civil Rights Act

Head Start

University Work-Study

*1965

Medicare

Voting Rights Act

*1970

Clean Air Act

*1972

Clear Water Act

1976

Jimmy Carter

President

1976 - 1980

1977

Department of Energy

1978

Camp David Peace Accords

1980

Edmund S. Muskie - Secretary of State

1988

George J. Mitchell - Senate Majority Leader

William Jefferson Clinton

President

1992 - 2000

*1993

Family and Medical Leave Act

The Maine Democratic Party would like to thank Carl Pease for creating this timeline.