First District Executive Councilor Ray Burton of Bath comments during the unveiling of a newly executed oil portrait of Governor and US Senator Henry W. Keyes, of Haverhill (1862-1938), replacing one long displayed in error, at ceremonies at the State House on December 5, 2012. Looking on are Governor John Lynch and members of the Keyes family, painter Craig Pursley, also of Bath, (third from right), and former State Rep. Dean Dexter of Laconia, who discovered the error.

A long awaited correction came when a proper likeness of New Hampshire Governor and US Senator Henry Keyes, donated to the state by his family, was placed in the State House second floor "Hall of Governors" on December 14, 2012.

A chalk drawing of who was later identified as New Hampshire Congressman and US Marshall Jacob Hart Ela of Rochester (1820-1884), hung for years beside a section reserved only for governors on the on the second floor corridor of the NH State House, labelled in error as that of Keyes.

The New York Times obituary of his wife, former New Hampshire First Lady Frances Parkinson Keyes, a nationally known author and novelist, published July 4, 1970 on page 21, appears below.

State Representative, Concord Ward 7, 1917-1918
State Senator, Concord, 1921-1922
Governor of New Hampshire 1925-1927, 1931-1935
First Chairman, Social Security Board 1935-1937
Assistant Director, International Labor Organization, Geneva 1936-1939
Third Director, International Labor Organization, Geneva 1939-1941
US Ambassador to London 1941-1946
US Delegate to UN Economic and Social Council 1946

Link to video of Governor's reception for Citizens of London author Lynne Olson, March 4, 2010, produced by the New Hampshire State Archives staff:

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Governor of New Hampshire, 1955-1959
United States Assistant Secretary of State   
    for Administration, 1959 - to 1961
Director, Agency for International Development, 1969-1971
Member, New Hampshire Constitutional Convention, 1984
State Representative from Lebanon and   
    Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee, 1949-1951
Speaker of the NH House, 1951-1953
President of the NH Senate, 1953-1955

Rough Rider, Spanish American War, 1898
   (served under Col. Leonard Wood and Lt Col Theodore Roosevelt)
Founder Manchester Leader, 1912
Founder, Union-Leader Publishing Co., 1913
Bought rival Daily Union, 1913,
   (later became Manchester Union Leader, then NH Union Leader)
Major, 78th Army Division, World War I, 1917
Lt Colonel US Army Reserve, 1923, Colonel 1937-1944
Republican Candidate for NH Governor, 1924
   (defeated in the primary by John Gilbert Winant)
Republican nominee for vice president, 1936
Secretary of the Navy, World War II, 1940-1944

Colonel Frank Knox is remembered by retired NH Union Leader and NH Sunday News Sports Editor Bob Hilliard of Manchester in this brief October, 2000 video clip at this link:

https://youtu.be/DtqGTIBXS0k

New Hampshire Governor Styles Bridges with Colonel Frank Knox at the 1936 Cleveland Republican Convention where Knox was nominated for Vice President. Bridges made the nominating speech.

New Hampshire governor's welcoming reception for Russian and Japanese delegates upon their arrival in Portsmouth to negotiate a peace accord to end the Russo-Japanese War, on August 9, 1905

The event was held at the Rockingham County Courthouse, downtown Portsmouth, following a festive parade through the city that morning. The delegates from the two nations had met the day before with President Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, his Oyster Bay, New York, residence. Roosevelt was brokering the peace talks and would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts a year later. Both delegations were guests of the state, lodging at the Wentworth-by-the-Sea hotel at New Castle, while negotiations were conducted at the nearby Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, across the Piscataqua River in Kittery, Maine. The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed, just short of a month later on September 5. Here, the Japanese delegates are pictured above at right, the Russians, who had sued for peace, are at left.

Among the guests were members of the state's congressional delegation, executive council, and a number of the governor’s uniformed ceremonial aides-de-camp. Those circled are NH Secretary of State Edward N. Pearson (Yellow), Portsmouth Mayor William E. Marvin (Brown), Congressman Cyrus A. Sulloway (Orange), US Senator Jacob H. Gallinger (Blue), Col. John H. Bartlett, a future governor (Green), US Assistant Secretary of State Herbert H.D. Pierce, Roosevelt’s personal representative at the talks (Purple), Governor John McLane (Red), and George Higgins Moses, the governor’s liaison to the visiting diplomats and future US Senator, (White). Sergius Witte, the Czar’s chief negotiator, is at  the right of Secretary Pierce. Chief Japanese diplomat, Baron Jutaro Komura, is at Governor McLane’s left.

Both nations donated gifts of $10,000 dollars each to the State in appreciation for hosting the talks, which in turn the state invested in government bonds of both countries, creating a fund for charitable purposes that continues to this day. Following the 1917 revolution, the new Soviet government ceased making interest payments on their bonds, which they have since refused to resumed. During World War II, the Japanese government also stopped interest payments, but in 1952, payments were both resumed, and made up for nine years of lost interest. In 1963 the legislature changed the official name from the "Russian-Japanese Fund" to the "Japanese Charitable Fund."

The fund is managed by the Secretary of State and State Treasurer, with a third appointed chairman by the other two, whenever the position becomes vacant.

The Home of US Senator Styles Bridges and Mrs. Bridges, East Concord, circa 1949

Today, as the official residence of New Hampshire governors

Senator and Mrs. Bridges at home, 1950s

Concord Daily Monitor, September 25, 1947

Plaque unveiled, Tuesday, September 9, 1969

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Prior to voting in the February 11, 2020 NH Presidential Primary, veteran Windsor Town Moderator Patrick Hines demonstrates the workings of the antique ballot box Windsor has used in every election since secret ballots were mandated in state elections in 1892. The counting device still functions perfectly, he explained to visitors and news  reporters, including the bell that sounds whenever a ballot is inserted.

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Governor of New Hampshire, 1935-1937

US Senator, 1937-1961 (Died in Office)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate, 1953 and 1954

Senate Minority Leader, 1952-1953

Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee, 1953-1955

Leader, Republican Senate Conference, 1949-1951

Chair, Republican Policy Committee, 1955-1961

Members of the US Senate New England Delegation meeting in Senator Kennedy's office, c1958-59. Seated: Kennedy, MA; Theodore Francis Green, RI, Bridges, NH; Margaret Chase Smith, ME; Standing: George Aiken, VT: Prescott Bush, CT; Leverett Saltonstall, MA, Norris Cotton, NH

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March 12, 2018, NH State House Room 100

Participating: Paul McEachern of Portsmouth and Sandy Hoeh of Hanover, delegates for Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota; Jim Splaine, chairman for President Lyndon Johnson’s campaign in Portsmouth and UNH; former NH House Speaker George Roberts and former Executive Councilor Ruth Griffin, volunteers for Richard Nixon; three then-college student volunteers for McCarthy: Mark Stevens a guest at the Democratic convention, state representatives Robert "Renny" Cushing of Portsmouth, and Chuck Grassie of Rochester. Commenting on the political dynamics in the state during that time, Joseph W. McQuaid, publisher of the NH Union Leader.

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A portrait of former NH House Speaker George B. Roberts, Jr., R-Alton, was unveiled during ceremonies at the Legislative Office building, Concord, on October 25, 2019. Among those present were Governor Chris Sununu, Lee Marden, chair of “Friends of George Roberts,” sponsor of the portrait by Stoddard artist Richard Whitney, many friends, former and current legislators and staff, including past speakers, and family. As Speaker (1975-1980) and before, Roberts was the key figure in rescuing the building, the former US Federal Courthouse and Post Office, from demolition in the early seventies, transforming into an elegant facility housing legislative hearing rooms and offices. The painting now hangs in the building’s lobby, christened “George B. Roberts Hall” by legislation passed in the 2016 session. Pictured with Roberts is Gov. Sununu, the artist, Secretary of State William M. Gardner, Deputy Secretary David Scanlan, and Terence Pfaff, chief operating officer, NH General Court.

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March 18, 1840 - November 12, 1920
Lawyer, Author, Speaker, Pioneer Women's Rights Advocate
Denied right to vote 1870, Dover, NH, and thereafter 
  (Believed too ill to vote in the November 2, 1920 elections, after ratification of the 19th Amendment*)
Admitted to Practice Law, Washington, DC, 1882
  (Practiced pro-bono criminal law there)
US Commissioner & Examiner, DC Chancery Court, 1884
Credentialed First Female Attorney in New Hampshire, 1890
Credentialed to argue before the US Supreme Court, 1891
First woman to seek a major diplomatic post, 1897
  (envoy to Columbia, passed over by Pres. William McKinley)
Denied effort to register as a candidate for NH governor, 1910
  (Unable to register to voter, as required to be a candidate)

State House Portrait, by Kate Gridley

*Ms Ricker passed away at her Dover, NH, home at 7 Ham Street, "about two years" after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. Contributing cause is listed as: "senile changes in brain, heart and kidneys about 4 months," according to her death certificate on file at the NH Secretary of State's Division of Vital Records.

Campaign biography of New Hampshire’s only president. Following Pierce’s nomination by the Democratic Party in 1852, Hawthorne, a friend and classmate at Bowdoin College, volunteered to write the "necessary biography." Hawthorne had enjoyed recent national success with the publication of The Scarlett Letter (1851) and House of the Seven Gables (1852), now classics. The Pierce book cost Hawthorne's standing among New England contemporaries due to the candidate's anti-abolitionist positions and Southern sympathies. Hawthorne wrote a friend: "the biography has cost me hundreds of friends, here at the north...in consequence of what I say on the slavery question..Pierce owes me something." After taking office, Pierce appointed Hawthorne American Consul to Liverpool. The friendship continued throughout their lives. While returning from a trip through the White Mountains, to boost Hawthorne’s spirits, who was in failing health, the two stopped for the night at the Pemigewasset House Hotel in Plymouth. On the morning of May 19, 1864, Pierce found his friend had died sometime in his sleep during the night in an adjacent room.

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Governor Samuel Wesley Powell of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire
Served two terms, 1959-1963
Official State House Portrait by George Augustas, 1990

Autograph card, private collection

A film documenting Governor Powell's first inauguration, held under the State House portico overlooking State House Plaza on January 8, 1959, is available for viewing at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nHDzm61eM

State House Portrait by U.D. Tenney

March 9, 1819 – April 22, 1899

• Born of a humble farming family in Candia
• Fortune made from Banking, Railroads
• Two term Governor of New Hampshire, 1865-1867
• Four term Mayor of Manchester 1852, 1854, 1864
• Manchester City Clerk, 1849-1851
• State Representative, Manchester Ward 3, 1857-1858
• President, NH Republican State Convention, 1860
• US Representative to 1861 International Exhibition, London, appointed by Lincoln
• Signed law in 1866 creating what is now the University of New Hampshire
• Delegate-at-Large, National Republican Convention, 1872, which nominated Grant
• Honorary Commissioner to 1878 International Exposition, Paris, appointed by Hayes

Example of New Hampshire discharge certificates issued following the the Civil War. This one was issued to Greenleaf C. Keniston of Newmarket, who enlisted 23 Nov 1861 at age 25 as a Private in Company D., 8th Infantry. He was mustered in on 20 Dec 1861, and received a Disability Discharge on 26 Aug 1863 at Port Hudson, LA. (he had also given home of record as Nottingham, according to the Newmarket Historical Society).

Life Magazine "Parting Shots" feature, February 20, 1970

Frederick Smyth Mausoleum, Valley Street Cemetery, view from the "valley," Manchester, NH c 1920s

c 2020s

House Speaker, Senate President and Nixon appointee Stewart Lamprey and two term Governor Walter Peterson with Secretary of State Bill Gardner, 2009. View this New Hampshire Archives Oral History video of that conversation Here:

Martin Alonzo Haynes, author, editor, publisher, congressman, Civil War veteran, New Hampshire Department Commander, Grand Army of the Republic, was born in Springfield, New Hampshire, July 30, 1842. He died in Laconia (Lakeport), November 28, 1919, and was interred at Bayside Cemetery, Lakeport, New Hampshire.

Haynes grew up in Manchester, was educated in the public schools there, entered an apprenticeship in the printing trade, and worked as a reporter for both the Manchester Mirror and Manchester Union.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Haynes enlisted at 18 in what became the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment. He served in every battle where the regiment was engaged, including Bull Run, Gettysburg, and Cold Harbor. “He was never on the sick list and never off duty a day during the whole three years, although three times slightly wounded,” according to his obituary in the December 5, 1919, Laconia Democrat.

Haynes served under Colonel (later General) Gilman Marston of Exeter, who was also a sitting New Hampshire member of Congress at the time. Marston would use his congressional "franking" privilege so the soldiers under his command could send letters home free of postage, signing his name in the upper right-hand corner of the envelopes, where the stamp would have gone.

In 1889, Marston served briefly in the US Senate, to fill a vacancy.

After the war, in 1868 Haynes moved to the Lake Village section of Laconia, now known as Lakeport (Ward 6), where he and a partner established the weekly Lake Village Times, which he operated for twenty years (his partner retiring after three years).

Haynes authored two significant histories of the Second New Hampshire Regiment, published in 1865 and 1896. A third volume followed years later, consisting of edited letters he wrote from the battlefield to his fiancée and later wife of some 50 years, the former Cornelia T. Lane, published in 1916 as A Minor War History, A Soldier Boy's “Letters to the Girl I left Behind Me.”

Then came a 55-page “reunion souvenir,” a tribute listing deceased members of his regiment, including many obituaries, for a 1917 reunion at the Grand Army’s Weirs Beach headquarters on Lake Winnipesaukee, “Muster Out Roll, New Hampshire Second Regiment in the War of the Rebellion.”

Haynes was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (1872 and 1873, and from 1876 to 1883), Clerk of the Belknap County Supreme Court (1876-1883), President of the NH Veterans Association, and New Hampshire Department Commander, Grand Army of the Republic (1881 and 1882).

He served two terms in the US Congress from the state’s first district (1883-1887), finishing his career as an Internal Revenue agent for the US Treasury, establishing an agency office in the Philippine Islands (1890-1893) (1898-1912).

His obituary notes: “‘Mart’ Haynes never lost his love for the printer’s trade,” setting type by hand and printing “numerous booklets of a historical nature” in a small print shop at his home, “giving away the limited editions of these publications to his personal friends.”

His papers are housed at Dartmouth College, Rauner Special Collections Library, consisting of 31 items relating to his Internal Revenue Service appointment.