Ronald Fillmore Banks was an associate professor of history at the University of Maine at Orono and a nationally-known authority on Maine history and U.S. federal Indian policy. He was born in 1934 in Bangor, Maine and died in 1979. He grew up in Camden, Maine and received his B.S. degree in Education in 1956 from Gorham State College and his M.A. and Ph. D. from the University of Maine at Orono in 1958 and 1966. He was past president of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He had taught at the University of Maine at Orono for 16 years as a specialist in Maine history. He served as chairman of the Maine State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and was an advisor to the Maine attorney general on the state's Indian land claims case. During his career he wrote and/or edited three books: Maine becomes a state, A history of Maine, and a bibliography of the state during the Federal and Jeffersonian period. At the time of his death he had been commissioned to begin research on a book to be titled "The scope of federal Indian policy in the formative years 1763-1835; the Maine Indian Land Claim as a case study."
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