Richard 'Dick' Edward Barringer (born November 21, 1937) is an American politician and writer from

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...

. Barringer served as Director of Public Lands in Maine from 1973 to 1975, when he was appointed Conservation Commissioner. In

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

, Barringer ran for Governor of Maine as a

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, finishing in third place in the primary. He is the author of ''The Maine Manifest'' and ''Changes''. Barringer was born on November 21, 1937, and grew up in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended

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. He enlisted in the

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and was on both active and reserve duty from 1959 to 1967 mostly serving in Latin America. He earned a Ph.D. in political science and economics from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

and subsequently taught at Harvard.

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