- Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg (born February 14 1947) is a former Governor of New Hampshire and current United States Senator serving as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. He is a member of the Republican Party, and was a businessman and attorney in Nashua before entering politics. - Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18 1782 - October 24 1852), was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. His increasingly nationalistic views and the effectiveness with which he articulated them led Webster to become one of the most famous orators and influential Whig leaders of the Second Party System. - Paul Hodes
Paul Hodes (born March 21, 1951 in New York City, New York) is an attorney from the U.S. state of New Hampshire who formerly served at the Shaheen & Gordon Law Firm. He is currently the Representative for the 2nd District of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives. He is New Hampshire's first Jewish congressman. Hodes was born March 21, 1951. After graduating from The Collegiate School, a private school in New York City, … - Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce (November 23 1804 - October 8 1869) was an American politician and the fourteenth President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He is to date the only president from New Hampshire and was the first president born in the nineteenth century. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. - Carol Shea-Porter
Carol Shea-Porter (born December 2, 1952) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of New Hampshire. She was previously the City Chair of the Rochester, New Hampshire Democratic Party. On November 7, 2006, she defeated incumbent Republican Jeb Bradley of New Hampshire's 1st congressional district in the 2006 midterm elections in an upset victory to become the first woman ever elected to Congress from New Hampshire. - Gene Robinson
V. Gene Robinson (born May 29, 1947) is the ninth bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Robinson was elected bishop in 2003 and entered office on March 7, 2004. Prior to becoming bishop, he served as assistant to the retiring New Hampshire bishop. Robinson is best known for being the first openly gay, noncelibate priest to be ordained to the historic episcopate. See also: Gay bishops - Warren Rudman
Warren Bruce Rudman (born May 18, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American Senator from New Hampshire. He was elected as a Republican in 1980 and re-elected in 1986, and was known as a pragmatic centrist. He chose not to run for re-election in 1992. He is now a retired partner in the international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He currently sits on the board of directors of Raytheon, Collins & Aikman, Allied Waste Corporation, … - Jeb Bradley
Joseph E. "Jeb" Bradley (born October 20, 1952) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for the from 2003 to 2007. He was defeated for reelection in 2006 by Democrat Carol Shea-Porter, in what was considered an upset. - Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work frequently drew inspiration from rural life in New England, using the setting to explore complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was highly honored during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes. - John Stark
John Stark (August 28, 1728 - May 8, 1822) was a general who served in the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He became widely known as the "Hero of Bennington" for his exemplary service at the Battle of Bennington in 1777. - John E. Sununu
John Edward Sununu (born September 10, 1964) is a Republican United States Senator from New Hampshire. - Christa McAuliffe
Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, better known simply as Christa McAuliffe, and prior to her marriage, Christa Corrigan, was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who was selected from among more than 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space. She died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. - Granny D
Granny D (born Ethel Doris Haddock, January 24, 1910) is an American politician and liberal political activist from the state of New Hampshire. Noted for her colorful character, warm personality, and advanced age, Haddock famously walked across the continental United States in 1999 to advocate campaign finance reform and in 2004 ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Judd Gregg for the U.S. Senate. - Kathy Sullivan
Kathy Sullivan was the chairwoman of the Democratic Party in the state of New Hampshire. She has been an avid critic of the DNC's attempts to change the primary calendar to decrease the influence of the New Hampshire Primary. She has been referred to as a hero because of her efforts to bring justice to the illegal efforts of the Republican Party to jam the election day phone lines of the NH Democrats in 2002. Two Republican leaders have been sentenced to prison. - Bill Zeliff
William H. Zeliff, Jr. (born June 12, 1936) is a U.S. Republican politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire from 1991 to 1997. - Norman D'Amours
Norman D'Amours is a retired Democratic member of the United States Congress, where he was an active participant on issues related to banking and finance. Mr. D'Amours remains active in New Hampshire and national politics. He is a partner in Dierman, Wortley, Zola & Associates in Washington, DC. After his retirement from Congress, … - Jim Coburn
Jim Coburn is a politician, and a former Republican candidate for Governor of New Hampshire. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but moved to Chester, New Hampshire when he was six years old to live with his grandmother after his mother died of cancer. - Raymond Wieczorek
Raymond J Wieczorek is a Republican politician currently representing District 4 in the New Hampshire Executive Council. Wieczorek was elected to the Council in 2002. He served five terms as mayor of Manchester in the 1990's. Wieczorek is a Korean War veteran, a member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, and owner of the Wieczorek Insurance Agency. He resides in Manchester, where he has lived since 1958, with his wife Susan. - Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 - November 29, 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Republican party, reformer and politician. His "New York Tribune" was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day." Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as antislavery and a host of reforms. - John Sullivan
John Sullivan (b. February 17 1740, Somersworth, New Hampshire - d. January 23 1795, Durham, New Hampshire) was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a delegate in the Continental Congress. Sullivan served as a major general in the Continental Army and as Governor (or "President") of New Hampshire. He is most famous for leading the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, … - Bode Miller
Samuel Bode Miller (born October 12 1977), best known as Bode Miller, is an American alpine skier. In 2005, he became the first American in 22 years to win the overall alpine skiing World Cup title, since Phil Mahre and Tamara McKinney in 1983. Earlier during his championship season, with a victory on November 28, 2004, he became only the fifth man to win World Cup races in all five disciplines: slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, downhill, and combined. - John Wentworth
John Wentworth (1719-1781) was a jurist, soldier, and leader of the American Revolution in New Hampshire. He was often referred to as the Judge or as Colonel John to distinguish him from his cousin, the John Wentworth who was the colony's governor. This John Wentworth was born in Dover, New Hampshire on March 30, 1719. After service in the French and Indian War, … - John Wentworth
John Wentworth (1671-1730) was an early settler in New England who served as Lieutenant Governor for the Province of New Hampshire from 1717 to 1730. Before New Hampshire got its own Royal Governor in 1741, it was administered under the guidance of the Governor of Massachusetts, and John was the Lieutenant Governor for New Hampshire from 1717 to 1730. On October 12, 1693 he married Sara Hunking. The couple had thirteen children, three of whom (Samuel, Benning, … - John Langdon
John Langdon (June 26, 1741-September 18, 1819) was a politician from New Hampshire and one of the first two United States Senators from that state. Langdon was an early supporter of the American Revolutionary War and later served in the Continental Congress. After being in Congress for 12 years, including serving as the first President pro tempore of the Senate, Langdon became Governor of New Hampshire. He turned down a nomination for Vice Presidential candidate in 1812, … - Gary Hirshberg
Gary Hirshberg is Chairman, President and CEO of Stonyfield Farm, an organic yogurt producer, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He has been with the company since 1983. He has been mentioned as a possible 2008 Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate against New Hampshire's junior U.S. Senator John E. Sununu. - Robert Burns
Robert Burns (December 12, 1792 - June 26, 1866) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire. Born in Hudson, New Hampshire, Burns moved with his parents in childhood to Rumney in Grafton County. He studied medicine in Warren, New Hampshire, taught school, then attended Dartmouth Medical School in 1815. He returned to Warren and commenced the practice of medicine. He moved 20 miles south to Hebron in 1818 and continued the practice of his profession until 1835. - Rene Gagnon
Rene Arthur Gagnon was one of the U.S. Marines immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's famous World War II photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima". - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation's colonial history. - Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (January 23, 1809 - January 25, 1882) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire. Born in Westminster, Vermont, Burke attended the public schools. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1826, commencing practice in Colebrook, New Hampshire. He moved to Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1833 and assumed editorial management of the "New Hampshire Argus". - Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures". She took the name Mary Baker Glover from her first marriage and was also known as Mary Baker Glover Eddy or Mary Baker G. Eddy from her third marriage. - Donald Hall
Donald Hall (born September 20, 1928) is an American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate. - Salmon P. Chase
Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 - May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States. Chase articulated the "Slave Power conspiracy" thesis well before Lincoln did, and he coined the slogan of the Free Soil Party, "Free Soil, Free Labor, … - John P. Hale
John Parker Hale (March 31, 1806 - November 19, 1873) was an American politician and lawyer from New Hampshire. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and in the United States Senate from 1847 to 1853 and again from 1855 to 1865. He was a leading member of the Free Soil Party and was its presidential nominee in 1852. Hale was born in Rochester, Strafford County, New Hampshire, the son of John Parker Hale and Lydia Clarkson O'Brien. - Styles Bridges
Henry Styles Bridges (September 9 1898-November 26 1961) was an American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, New Hampshire. He served one term as Governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four year career in the United States Senate. Bridges was born in West Pembroke, Maine. He attended the public schools in Maine. He attended the University of Maine at Orono until 1918. From 1918 he held a variety of jobs, including teaching, newspaper editing, … - Nicholas Gilman
Nicholas Gilman, Jr. (August 3, 1755-May 2, 1814) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the U.S. Constitution, representing New Hampshire. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives during the first four Congresses, and served in the U.S. Senate from 1804 until his death in 1814. His brother John Gilman was also very active in New Hampshire politics, … - Norris Cotton
Norris H. Cotton (May 11 1900-February 24 1989) was an American Republican politician from the state of New Hampshire. Norris Cotton was born on a farm in Warren, New Hampshire. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Wesleyan University in Connecticut. While in college, he served as a clerk to the New Hampshire state senate and as a member of the New Hampshire state Assembly in 1923 as one of the youngest legislators in history. - William Whipple
William Whipple, Jr. (1730-1785), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire. William Whipple was born at Kittery, Maine, and educated at a common school until his off to sea. He became a Ship's Master by the age of twenty-three. In 1759 he landed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and in partnership with his brother, established himself as a merchant. In 1775 he was elected to represent his town at the Provincial Congress. - Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson (born March 16, 1982, in Londonderry, New Hampshire) is a Major League Baseball pitcher. Wilson made his Major League Baseball debut with the San Francisco Giants on April 23, 2006, against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado. In his debut, Wilson pitched two innings and surrendered 2 hits and no runs while striking out three. After just one Major League inning, Wilson was placed on the 15-Day Disabled List. - Levi Woodbury
Levi Woodbury (December 22, 1789 - September 4, 1851) was the first justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to have attended law school. Woodbury was born in Francestown, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1809, briefly attended law school in Litchfield, Connecticut, and was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1812. Woodbury was Justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1816-23; Governor of New Hampshire, … - Austin F. Pike
Austin Franklin Pike (October 16, 1819 - October 8, 1886) was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Hebron, New Hampshire, he pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Merrimack County in 1845. He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1850 to 1852 and in 1865 - 1866, and served as speaker during the last two years. He was a member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1857 - 1858, …
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