Frederick A. Powers

Frederick Alton Powers (June 19, 1855 – February 13, 1923), of Houlton, Maine, was Attorney General of Maine from 1893 to 1897 and a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from January 2, 1900 to 1907.[1]

Portrait of Maine Supreme Judicial Court Justice Frederick Alton Powers.

Powers graduated from Bowdoin College in 1875, and read law with his brother in Houlton, Maine.[1]

He served in the Maine State Legislature from 1885 to 1889.[1] He came to have extensive property holdings, of which it was said:

He (Llewellyn Powers) can count his possessions by the township, and they aggregate no less than one hundred and ninety thousand acres. The holdings of himself and his brother, Hon. Frederick A. Powers, attorney-general of Maine, amount to a quarter of a million acres.[2]

He died in his winter home in Florida.[1]

Legal offices
Preceded by
Charles E. Littlefield		 Maine Attorney General
1889–1892		 Succeeded by
William T. Haines

References
  1. "Frederick Alton Powers, Houlton, ca. 1900".
  2. The New England Magazine (1896), Volume 19, page 71.


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