Burton Melvin Cross (November 15 1902 in Gardiner Maine – October 22 1998 in Augusta Maine) was a Maine Republican politician. Cross was Maine’s 61st and 63rd Governor.In 1933 Cross won a seat on the Augusta Common Council and four years later in 1937 moved up to the Board of Aldermen presiding over both bodies. Elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1941 he served two terms before moving up to the Maine Senate in 1945.
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