Neil S. Bishop

Neil S. Bishop was an American dairy farmer, educator and politician from Maine.
Bishop was born in Presque Isle, Maine, although his family moved when he was young to Bowdoinham, Maine. He served four terms in the Maine Senate as a Republican while a resident of Bowdoinham. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican Party nomination for governor in 1948 and 1952. He contested the 1952 general election as an Republican (United States)|Independent Republican], but finished third with just 17% of the vote.
After moving to Stockton Springs, he won the nomination for Congress in the 2nd district in 1958, but lost to incumbent Democrat Frank M. Coffin. For several subsequent years, he taught at Augusta's Cony High School. In his final bid for public office, Bishop was his party's nominee for U.S. Senate in 1970 United States Senate [election in Maine|1970], which he lost to incumbent Democrat Edmund Muskie. He had crossed party lines to support Muskie's longshot bid for The Blaine House in 1954.