Chester Earl Merrow

Chester Earl Merrow (* November 15, 1906 in Ossipee, New Hampshire, † February 10, 1974 ) was an American politician. Between 1943 and 1963 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Chester Merrow attended the public schools of his home and then 1921-1925 the Brewster Free Academy. He then continued his studies until 1929 at Colby College in Waterville (Maine) continued. Since 1929, he was himself a teacher. Until 1938, he taught at various schools in the states of Vermont and Maine. In the meantime he studied until 1937 at Columbia University in New York City.

Politically, Merrow member of the Republican Party. In the years 1939 and 1940 he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. He then worked as a newscaster and presenter in radio. In the congressional elections of 1942, he was the first electoral district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Arthur B. Jenks on January 3, 1943. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1963 ten contiguous legislatures. In 1945 he was a delegate to a UN conference in London the following year he took part in a UNESCO meeting in Paris. 1962 renounced Merrow on another candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate, which went to Perkins Bass. During his time in Congress, the Korean War took place. During this time, the Vietnam War began. In addition, the 22nd and the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

Between 1963 and 1968, Merrow as Special Advisor for the U.S. State Department. In the years 1970 and 1972, he ran unsuccessfully for each return in the Congress. Chester Merrow died on 10 February 1974.