Charles Bass

Charles Foster Bass ( born January 8, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 2007, and again from 2011 to 2013, he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Bass comes from a celebrity ententes in New Hampshire political family. His grandfather, Robert P. Bass (1873-1960) was from 1911 to 1913 Governor of that State; his father Perkins sat for New Hampshire 1955-1963 in Congress.

The young Charles Bass attended until 1970, the Holderness School in Plymouth and then studied until 1974 at Dartmouth College in Hanover. He became a member of the Republican Party and worked in the following years until 1979 for Congressman William Cohen and David F. Emery of Maine. In 1980, he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the congressional elections. In 1984 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the constitution of New Hampshire. Between 1982 and 1988 he was a member of the New Hampshire General Court, he was also a member from 1988 to 1992 the Senate of New Hampshire on.

1994 Charles Bass was the second electoral district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he stepped on 3 January 1995, the successor to the Democrats Richard Swett, whom he had beaten in the election. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2007, six contiguous legislatures. In 2006, he defeated Democrat Paul Hodes. Between 2011 and 2013 he was able to complete another term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Today Bass is a member of the board of the Laidlaw Biopower LLC, their advisors he had previously been. He is married and lives in Peterborough (New Hampshire).