{"id":158,"date":"2016-02-17T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/former-u-s-congressman-maine-governor-john-baldacci-to-speak-on-campus-nov-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:47:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:47:48","slug":"former-u-s-congressman-maine-governor-john-baldacci-to-speak-on-campus-nov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/former-u-s-congressman-maine-governor-john-baldacci-to-speak-on-campus-nov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Congressman, Maine Governor John Baldacci to speak on campus Nov. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_814\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/john-baldacci.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-814\" class=\"size-full wp-image-814 lazyload\" title=\"john-baldacci\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/john-baldacci.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"255\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/255;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Baldacci<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NOVEMBER 2, 2011<br \/>\nby Katie Love &#8217;12, Media Relations<\/p>\n<p>GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014John Baldacci, former U.S. Congressman and Governor of Maine, will speak about \u201cHow and Why Congress is Dysfunctional\u201d Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in Furman University\u2019s Younts Conference Center.<\/p>\n<p>His talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Riley Institute at Furman.<\/p>\n<p>Baldacci was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine\u2019s Second District in 1994 and served four consecutive, two-year terms. \u00a0He then served as Governor of Maine from 2003 until 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Baldacci was first elected to public office in 1978, earning a seat on the Bangor City Council at the age of 23.\u00a0 He also served 12 years on the Maine State Senate before being elected to the U.S. House.<\/p>\n<p>Baldacci\u2019s talk at Furman will focus on his experiences in politics.\u00a0 He\u2019ll discuss whether it is more difficult now for policy to be made and politicians to compromise.\u00a0 The lecture is part of Baldacci\u2019s time at Furman as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Jill Fuson at 864.294.3280 or by email at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">jill.fuson@furman.edu<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOVEMBER 2, 2011<br \/>\nby Katie Love &#8217;12, Media Relations<\/p>\n<p>John Baldacci, former U.S. Congressman and Governor of Maine, will speak about \u201cHow and Why Congress is Dysfunctional\u201d Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in Furman&#8217;s Younts Conference Center.  His talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Riley Institute at Furman.   The lecture is part of Baldacci\u2019s time on campus as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,32,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-centers-and-institutes","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}