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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, 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, N.H., 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.:
Government Printing Office, 1962.
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