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Senate Years of Service: 1937-1961 Party: Republican
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BRIDGES, Henry Styles (Styles), a Senator from New Hampshire; born in West Pembroke, Washington
County, Maine, September 9, 1898; attended the public schools; graduated from
the University of Maine at Orono in 1918; instructor at Sanderson Academy,
Ashfield, Mass., 1918-1919; member of the extension staff of the University of
New Hampshire at Durham 1921-1922; secretary of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau
Federation 1922-1923; editor of the Granite Monthly Magazine 1924-1926;
director and secretary of the New Hampshire Investment Co. 1924-1929; member of
the New Hampshire Public Service Commission 1930-1934; lieutenant in the United
States Army Reserve Corps 1925-1937; Governor of New Hampshire 1934-1936;
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1936, reelected in 1942,
1948, 1954, and again in 1960, and served from January 3, 1937, until his death
on November 26, 1961; minority leader 1952-1953; served as President pro
tempore of the Senate during the Eighty-third Congress; chairman, Joint
Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation (Eightieth Congress), Joint Committee
on Inaugural Arrangements (Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth Congresses),
Committee on Appropriations (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses), Republican
Policy Committee (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses); died in
East Concord, New Hampshire, November 26, 1961; interment in Pine Grove
Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Kiepper, James J.
Styles Bridges: Yankee Senator. Sugar Hill, NH: Phoenix
Publishing, 2001; U.S. Congress.
Memorial Services for Henry S. Bridges. 87th Cong., 2nd sess.,
1962. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Printing Office, 1962.
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