Frederick Alton Powers (June 19, 1855 in Pittsfield, Maine – February 13, 1923)[1] was Attorney General of Maine from 1893 to 1897 and a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from January 2, 1900 to 1907.[2]
Powers graduated from Maine Central Institute in 1871,[1] and from Bowdoin College in 1875, and read law with his brother Llewellyn in Houlton, Maine.[2]
He served in the Maine State Legislature from 1885 to 1889,[2] and in the Maine State Senate from 1891 to 1892.[1]
Powers owned significant amounts of real estate, such that it was said:
He died in his winter home in Florida.[2]
Powers was the son of Arba Powers and Naomi Matthews Powers. On June 6, 1879, he married May Hussey.[1]