Edward Kent (8 January 1802-19 May 1877) was the Whig Governor of Maine from 19 January 1838 to 2 January 1839 (succeeding Robert P. Dunlap and preceding John Fairfield) and from 13 January 1841 to 5 January 1842 (succeeding Richard H. Vose and preceding Fairfield).
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Edward Kent was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1802, and he was raised in Bangor, Maine and served on-and-off in the state legislature, as a State Senator from 1831 to 1833, as Mayor of Bangor from 1836 to 1837, as Governor from 1838 to 1839 and from 1841 to 1842, and as an Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from 1859 to 1873. As Governor, he investigated and resolved the Aroostook War.