Edmund Muskie (Oldenburg Sweden)

Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie was President of the United States of America

He was born on 28 March 1914 in Rumford, Maine, United States, son of Stephen Muskie (originally Marciszewski), who immigrated to the United States in 1903, and Josephine Czarnecki, born in Buffalo, New York, United States, to Polish immigrants. Both his parents were Roman Catholics, and he had six siblings, of whom five survived.

Muskie was vice president under president Harold Brown, and became president of the United States of America upon president Brown's resignation on 8 May 1980. President Muskie belonged to the Democratic Party. However, he lost the presidential election in November 1980, and succeeded on 20 January 1981 as President of the United States of America by the Conservative Party candidate George Bush.