Bridges, Styles, 1898-1961

LC control no.	n 86034222
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Bridges, Styles, 1898-1961 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bridges, Henry Styles, 1898-1961
Birth date	18980909
Death date	19611126
Place of birth	West Pembroke, Me.
Place of death	East Concord, Concord, N.H.
Affiliation	Sanderson Academy (Ashfield, Mass.) University of New Hampshire New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation New Hampshire Investment Co. New Hampshire. Public Service Commission United States. Army Reserve New Hampshire. Governor United States. Congress. Senate
Found in	NUCMC data from Sioux City Publ. Mus. for Huff, T.B. Papers, 1907-1968 (Styles Bridges) NUCMC files (Bridges, Styles, 1898-1961; Henry Styles Bridges) Biog. dir. Amer. Cong. (Bridges, Henry Styles; b. 1898; Gov. N.H., 1934-36; Sen. from N.H., 1936-1961) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, July 18, 2013 (Bridges, Henry Styles (Styles), (1898-1961); a Senator from New Hampshire; born in West Pembroke, Washington County, Maine, September 9, 1898; 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)