Which club will Collins join?
By Wally EdgeIf Susan Collins wins re-election, she will become the state's fourth three-term United States Senator directly elected by the voters. Wallace White (elected in 1930, 1936 and 1942), William Cohen, and Olympia Snowe were the others. Three Senators -- Frederick Hale, Margaret Chase Smith and Edmund Muskie -- were elected four times. If Collins loses, she joins Ralph Brewster as the state's only two-term Senator. Charles Johnson, Frederick Payne, William Hathaway, and Arthur Gould were one-term Senators.
In 1918, Bert Fernald won a special election for a two year term and then won twice more.
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