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Senate Years of Service: 1939-1953 Party: Republican
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TOBEY, Charles William, a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Roxbury, Mass.,
July 22, 1880; attended the public schools and Roxbury (Mass.) Latin School; moved to
Temple, N.H., in 1903 and engaged in the raising of poultry; also engaged in insurance,
agriculture, banking, and manufacturing; member, State house of representatives 1915-1916,
1919-1920, 1923-1924, serving as speaker 1919-1920; member, State senate, serving as
president 1925-1926; Governor of New Hampshire 1929-1930; trustee of Colby Junior
College, New London, N.H.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and
Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1938; elected to the United States Senate in 1938; reelected in 1944 and again
in 1950 and served from January 3, 1939, until his death; chairman, Committee on Banking and
Currency (Eightieth Congress), Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Eighty-third
Congress); United States adviser, UNESCO Conference in Paris 1952; member of the United
States delegation to the International Monetary Conference held in Bretton Woods, N.H., in
1944; died of coronary thrombosis in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., July 24, 1953;
interment in Miller Cemetery, Temple, N.H.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 83rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1954. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1954.
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