Charles M. Floyd

Charles Miller Floyd ( born June 5, 1861 in Derry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; † February 3, 1923 in Manchester, New Hampshire ) was an American politician and 1907-1909 Governor of the State of New Hampshire.

Early years

Charles Floyd attended Pinkerton Academy. After that he worked on a farm, in a shoe store and a hardware store. Since 1888, he ran with his brother, a clothing store in Manchester. For this business, the Charles M. Floyd Company should emerge in 1914. Floyd was also involved in other companies and served on the board of the Amoskeag Savings Bank.

Political career

Floyd was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1899 and 1901 he sat in the Senate of New Hampshire. From 1905 to 1906 he was a member of the Executive Council ( Executive Council) of New Hampshire, before he was elected in 1906 as governor of his state. However, his party's nomination came after intense internal debate to pass. The election itself was so scarce that the legislature decided until the day before his inauguration in his favor.

Governor Floyd took up his new post on January 3, 1907. In his two -year term of the expansion and construction of roads in New Hampshire was continued. It was then that a Tax Commission was set up and led a prison reform in the way. The previously common practice of free rail travel for members of the legislature was abolished.

Further CV

In 1912, Floyd was chairman of the Republican National Convention, on the incumbent William Howard Taft was re-nominated as a presidential candidate. During World War II, he was responsible for the management of fuels in his state ( state fuel administrator). Between 1921 and 1923 he was Chairman of the Tax Commission of the State of. Charles Floyd died in February 1923. Together with his wife Carrie E. Atwood he had a child.