The Political Graveyard: College and University President Politicians in New Hampshire

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College and University President Politicians in New Hampshire

Mary Ingraham Bunting (1910-1998) — also known as Mary I. Bunting; Polly Bunting; Mary Ingraham; Mary Bunting-Smith — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., July 10, 1910. Democrat. Microbiologist; college professor; president, Radcliffe College, 1960-72; member, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1964; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1972. Female. Died, in Kendal at Hanover continuing care community, Hanover, Grafton County, N.H., January 21, 1998 (age 87 years, 195 days). Burial location unknown.

		Relatives: Daughter of Henry A. Ingraham and Mary (Shotwell) Ingraham; married 1937 to Henry Bunting; married 1975 to Clement A. Smith.
		See also Wikipedia article
		Image source: Harvard University Gazette

James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) — also known as James B. Conant — Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 26, 1893. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; chemist; university professor; President of Harvard University, 1933-53; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1955-57. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi; Alpha Chi Sigma; American Philosophical Society; Council on Foreign Relations. Died in Hanover, Grafton County, N.H., February 11, 1978 (age 84 years, 322 days). Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.

		Relatives: Son of James Scott Conant and Jennett Orr (Bryant) Conant; married to Patty Thayer Reynolds and Grace Richards.
		See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial

William Alfred Eddy (1896-1962) — also known as Bill Eddy — of Hanover, Grafton County, N.H.; Geneva, Ontario County, N.Y.; Beirut, Lebanon. Born, to American parents, in Sidon, Syria (now Lebanon), March 9, 1896. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; college professor; president of Hobart College and William Smith College, Geneva, N.Y., 1936-42; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S. Minister to Saudi Arabia, 1944-46; Middle East consultant, Arabian American Oil Company, 1947-62. Episcopalian. Died May 3, 1962 (age 66 years, 55 days). Interment at Protestant Cemetery, Sidon, Lebanon.

		Relatives: Son of William King Eddy and Elizabeth Mills (Nelson) Eddy; married, October 5, 1917, to Mary Emma Garvin.
		See also U.S. State Dept career summary

Walter Rutherford Peterson (1922-2011) — also known as Walter Peterson — of Peterborough, Hillsborough County, N.H. Born in Nashua, Hillsborough County, N.H., September 19, 1922. Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1961-69; Speaker of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1965-69; Governor of New Hampshire, 1969-73; president, Franklin Pierce College; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1988 (alternate), 2008. Episcopalian. Member, American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Grange; Lions; Elks; Eagles. Died, from lung cancer, in Peterborough, Hillsborough County, N.H., June 1, 2011 (age 88 years, 255 days). Interment at Pine Hill Cemetery, Peterborough, N.H.

Heather Ann Wilson (b. 1960) — also known as Heather Wilson — of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, N.M. Born in Keene, Cheshire County, N.H., December 30, 1960. Republican. Rhodes scholar; cabinet secretary, New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, 1995-98; director for European Defense Policy and Arms Control, National Security Council, 1989-91; U.S. Representative from New Mexico 1st District, 1998-2009; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Mexico, 2004, 2008; candidate for U.S. Senator from New Mexico, 2008; president, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 2013-17; secretary of the U.S. Air Force, 2017-. Female. Methodist. Still living as of 2018.

Carroll Davidson Wright (1840-1909) — also known as Carroll D. Wright — Born in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, N.H., July 25, 1840. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; member of Massachusetts state senate Sixth Middlesex District, 1872-73; candidate for Presidential Elector for Massachusetts; chief, Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, 1873-88; in charge of the state census in 1875 and 1885, and the federal census for Massachusetts in 1880; U.S. Commissioner of Labor, 1885-1905; university professor; president, Clark College, Worcester, Mass., 1902. Unitarian. English and Scottish ancestry. Member, American Economic Association; American Statistical Association; American Antiquarian Society. Died February 20, 1909 (age 68 years, 210 days). Burial location unknown.

		Relatives: Son of Rev. Nathan Reed Wright and Eliza (Clark) Wright; married, January 1, 1867, to Caroline Elizabeth Harnden.
		See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
		Image source: Men of Mark in America (1906)

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