Frank W. Rollins

Frank West Rollins ( born February 24, 1860 in Concord, New Hampshire, † October 27, 1915 ) was an American politician and 1899-1901 Governor of the State of New Hampshire.

Early years

Frank Rollins was the son of U.S. Senator and Congressman Edward H. Rollins ( 1824-1889 ). He attended the common schools. Then he studied until 1881 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After studying law at Harvard University, he was admitted to the bar in 1882. But he decided not to exercise this profession; Instead, he went into the family owned bank. He soon became manager and vice president of the branch in Boston. But he continued to reside in Concord.

Social and political advancement

Since 1880, Frank Rollins was also a member of the National Guard of New Hampshire. Between 1890 and 1895 he was a lieutenant colonel in the corporate office of this force. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1895 he was elected for one year in the Senate from New Hampshire, where he then served as president. In 1896, he supported the presidential campaign of William McKinley. In 1898 he was elected as a candidate of his party for governor of his state.

Governor of New Hampshire

Frank Rollins began his two-year term on January 5, 1899. At that time there were in New Hampshire by previous economic crises, many farms and fallow lands. In order to stimulate this new, the governor organized the so-called " Old Home Week". Sense it, former residents first invite to a visit to her old home, take in the hope that they could return and the old estate was returned to service. At the project took more than 100 cities and towns and in part succeeded about 10,000 people to move to return. Governor campaigned for the expansion of roads and promoted tourism.

Further CV

At the end of his tenure, Rollins withdrew from politics. He was a director of several companies and curator of the MIT. Rollins was also active as a writer and published several short stories and novels and a travelogue of the State of New Hampshire. Governor Rollins died in 1915 and was buried in Concord. He was married in 1882 to Katherine W. Pecker, with whom he had a child.