| Helen Longley | |
| Native Name: | instead.--> |
| Office: | First Lady of Maine |
| Term Label: | In role |
| Term Start: | January 2, 1975 |
| Term End: | January 3, 1979 |
| Predecessor: | Pauline "Polly" Curtis |
| Successor: | Constance Brennan |
| Birth Name: | Helen Angela Walsh |
| Birth Date: | 11 April 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Springfield, Ohio, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Portland, Maine, U.S. |
| Party: | Independent |
| Children: | 5, including James Jr. |
| Relatives: | John Moore (grandson) |
Helen Walsh Longley (April 11, 1922 – September 13, 2005) was the former First Lady of Maine from 1975 to 1979, and the wife of the U.S. first independent Governor, James B. Longley.[1] [2] Longley was born Helen Angela Walsh in Springfield, Ohio.[1] She met her future husband, then a cadet in the United States Army Air Corps, in 1943.[1] The couple married in 1949 in Ohio and moved to Lewiston, Maine.[1] They had five children, including former Republican U.S. Representative James B. Longley Jr. (born 1951).
As First Lady, Longley was a proponent of the Special Olympics, as well as state medical facilities, including the Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital.[1]
Helen Longley died at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine, on September 13, 2005, at the age of 83.[1] She was a resident of Falmouth, Maine, and a former resident of Lewiston.[2]