Susan Collins, who called Flanagan “a treasured friend.We are pleased to offer you an effortless tool that makes it even easier to manage your account! Our free app provides you our same great service at your fingertips. “No matter the challenge, David would use his leadership talents to make a positive difference,” said Republican Sen. His varied jobs included a stint as general counsel to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during the investigation into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. He later earned a law degree from Boston College. After the Army rejected him, he attended graduate school at King’s College in London School of Economics. “David loved the state of Maine and the indelible spirit of all Mainers, a characteristic he himself held so well to the end,” Flanagan’s family said in a statement Thursday.įlanagan was schooled in Bangor, Hampden and Portland, and graduated from Harvard during the Vietnam War. He continued to work even after acknowledging he had pancreatic cancer and was receiving treatment at the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care. He returned to CMP in February 2020 to serve as executive chairman amid mounting frustration over a botched rollout of a billing system, slow response to storm damage and power outages, and a controversial utility corridor that would serve as a conduit for Canadian hydropower. Treasury: Arizona risks relief funds over anti-mandate rules He also served as chair of the University of Maine System trustees and the Maine chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Later, Flanagan had a brief run for governor, served as president of the University of Southern Maine and earned a reputation as a turnaround specialist. Angus King, who was governor at the time.ĬMP and Flanagan enjoyed high favorability ratings. “The Ice Storm of 1998 was one of the most serious challenges our state has ever faced – and during that perilous moment, David was tireless in working to help Maine people in need,” said independent Sen. The storm caused more than 415,000 power outages, and it took utility crews that converged on Maine from as far away as North Carolina 23 days to restore power.Īs the state pulled together, “our company and our government and our whole state showed its best side,” he said. Flanagan, of Manchester, served as CMP’s president and CEO from 1994 through 2000, including during the severe ice storm in January 1998 that left half the state’s residents without electricity while trees and power lines littered ice-covered roads across most of the state.
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