Elmer Hector Violette (February 2, 1921 – June 18, 2000) was an American jurist and Democratic Party politician from Maine.

He was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1942 without opposition, but resigned on January 15, 1943 after being drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II.

He went to meteorological school in Illinois and spent three years at the Bangor Air National Guard Base (then Dow Field) and CFB Goose Bay in Labrador as a weather-watcher.

This caused Maine Democrats to feel emboldened, and after being lobbied by Muskie and Governor Kenneth M. Curtis, Violette decided to run against incumbent Senator Margaret Chase Smith in 1966.

Violette lost the election but won 41 percent of the vote, a surprisingly strong showing against an incumbent as well-entrenched as Smith.

[7] By 1972, Violette had again set his sights on Washington, and Edmund Muskie encouraged him to run for the Senate again against an increasingly weakened Margaret Chase Smith.

Violette's slogan in the campaign was “Elmer Violette: Put His Experience to Work for You,” and the Portland Press Herald said of him that “There is no man better liked and respected in the Maine Legislature among both Republicans and Democrats than Elmer Violette.” Despite his personal popularity, he was defeated by Cohen in the November election, winning 46 percent of the vote.

He died on June 18, 2000, at the age of 79 at the Cary Medical Center in Caribou, following a car accident 10 days earlier.