Elizabeth S. Hager (born October 31, 1944) is an American politician who is a former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Elizabeth Sears Hager was born on October 31, 1944 in Washington, D.C. to Hess and Betty Spears. [1] She received her bachelor’s degree at Wellesley College in 1966, then her Master of Public Administration at the University of New Hampshire. [2]
Hager was first elected to the state House in 1972. She was reelected twelve times, until losing reelection in 2008. [3] Hager served on the Concord City Council for nine years and was mayor in 1988–1989. She was the first and only female mayor of Concord.
Hager had been mentioned as a possible appointment to the United States Senate, after Judd Gregg was nominated United States Secretary of Commerce. [4]
Hager is a moderate Republican, who endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election due to his pro-choice stance. [5] During her career, Hager has sponsored legislation protecting abortion rights. [6]
Charles Foster Bass is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 2007 and 2011 to 2013. He is the son of Perkins Bass, who also represented the same New Hampshire district from 1955 to 1963.
The Concord Monitor is the daily newspaper for Concord, the state capital of New Hampshire. It also covers surrounding towns in Merrimack County, most of Belknap County, as well as portions of Grafton, Rockingham and Hillsborough counties. The Monitor has several times been named as one of the best small papers in America and in April 2008, became a Pulitzer Prize winning paper, when photographer Preston Gannaway was honored for feature photography.
Elizabeth Yates McGreal was an American writer. She may have been known best for the biographical novel Amos Fortune, Free Man, winner of the 1951 Newbery Medal. She had been a Newbery runner-up in 1944 for Mountain Born. She began her writing career as a journalist, contributing travel articles to The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Many of her books were illustrated by the British artist Nora S. Unwin.
Frank Christopher Guinta is an American businessman and politician who represented New Hampshire's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013 and 2015 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, from 2006 to 2010. He is identified by National Journal as a moderate.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
The 2006 House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire took place on November 7, 2006, to determine who would represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives during the 110th Congress from January 3, 2007, until January 3, 2009.
Edward Lewis Brown and his wife, Elaine Alice Brown, residents of the state of New Hampshire, gained national news media attention as tax protesters in early 2007 for refusing to pay the U.S. federal income tax and subsequently refusing to surrender to federal government agents after having been convicted of tax crimes.
Jacalyn L. Cilley is a former Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the Strafford 4th District, and a former member of the New Hampshire Senate for the 6th district.
Joseph D. "Joe" Kenney is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has represented District 1 of the Executive Council of New Hampshire since 2021, previously representing the same district from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as a member of the New Hampshire Senate, representing the 3rd District from 2003 to 2009, and as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1995 until 2003.
Ann L. McLane Kuster is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously worked as a lobbyist.
William Harrison "Bill" Binnie is an American industrialist, investment banker, and philanthropist, who is currently president of the Carlisle Capital Corporation, president of the media company New Hampshire 1 Network and owner of Carlisle One Media. He is the former chairman of the Finance Committee for the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, and a former candidate for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate in 2010. He served as chairman of Carlisle Plastics, Inc. until that firm was sold to Tyco International in September 1996.
Susan E. Lynch is an American pediatrician and the wife of John Lynch, the Democratic former governor of New Hampshire. Susan Lynch was the First Lady of New Hampshire from 2005 to 2013.
Phyllis M. Katsakiores is an American politician who represents the Rockingham 6 district of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. She previously served in the House from 1982 to 2012. Katsakiores also served on the Derry, New Hampshire Town Council multiple times, from 1985 to 1994, from 2003 to 2006, and from 2012 to 2024. Katsakiores worked prior as a newspaper reporter in Massachusetts and as a local grocery supervisor.
Angeline A. Kopka was an American realtor and member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. She was of French and Irish descent.
The 2016 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2016, to elect the governor of New Hampshire, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Dan Feltes is an American lawyer, a member of the Democratic Party, and represented the 15th district of the New Hampshire Senate from 2014 until 2020. At the age of 39, Feltes became the youngest Majority Leader in the history of the New Hampshire Senate. Feltes was characterized by Steve Shurtleff, the former Speaker of the New Hampshire House, as the most effective consensus builder at the State House in two decades. He was the Democratic nominee for governor in 2020, he now teaches at Iowa Law school, and is a practicing attorney at Iowa Legal Aid.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the two U.S. representatives from the state of New Hampshire, one from each of the state's two congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
Beatrice Perin Barker Hall was an American politician from the state of New Hampshire. Hall served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives for a total of 28 years, serving non-consecutively from 1970 until 2008.
Cinde Warmington is an American attorney, politician, and former lobbyist. A Democrat, Warmington was elected to the Executive Council of New Hampshire in November 2020, assuming office on January 6, 2021.
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