Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. (born August 17, 1948) is a Maine historian.
In 2004, Shettleworth was appointed the sixth State Historian by Governor John Baldacci and reappointed four years later.
Shettleworth was 11 years old when he had his first meeting with Percival Proctor Baxter, who served as 53rd Governor of Maine from 1921 to 1925.
He became interested in historic preservation in 1961 when, at the age of 13, Portland's Union Station was destroyed in favor of a strip mall.
in Architectural History from Boston University in 1979, and an honorary degree from Bowdoin College in 2008.