Alphonse Roy

Alphonse Roy ( born October 26, 1897 in Saint -Simon, Quebec, Canada, † October 5, 1967 in Manchester, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1938 and 1939 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alphonse Roy came already in 1901 to Manchester, New Hampshire. There he attended the public schools. Later he went into the real estate business. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1925-1931 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. At the same time he also sat in the Manchester City Council. Between 1933 and 1937 he was a consultant ( Executive Councilor ) of the State Government of New Hampshire.

In the congressional elections of 1936 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. Roy put but against the election results, which had been canceled in favor of the Republican Arthur B. Jenks, a contradiction. After this had been upheld, he could on 9 June 1938, taking the meantime held by Jenks Abgeordnentensitz in Congress and finish the opened legislature until January 3, 1939. In the election of 1938 he was defeated Jenks, who thus regained his position. In 1940, Roy failed again with the attempt to return to Congress.

Between 1943 and 1945 Roy at the Bureau of Standards ( Sealer of Weights and Measures ) was the city of Manchester hired. He was then to 1953 U.S. Marshal for the District of New Hampshire. In 1958 he ran again unsuccessfully for Congress. A candidate for the nomination by his party for the senatorial elections was also unsuccessful in 1960. Until his death in 1967, Alphonse Roy worked in the real estate business.