Joseph Oliva Huot

Joseph Oliva Huot ( born August 11, 1917 in Laconia, New Hampshire; † August 5, 1983 ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Huot attended Sacred Heart Parochial School and Laconia High School. Between 1935 and 1953 he was head of department in a knitwear factory. From 1953 to 1959 Huot served on the Health Committee of the City Laconia. Between 1956 to 1964 he was advertising manager of a newspaper. Between 1959 and 1964 he also worked as a director of a weekly newspaper.

Huot was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1959 to 1963 he served as mayor of Laconia. In 1962, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress the first time. In 1964 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, on the incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated as a candidate for the presidential elections.

In the same year Huot was elected in the first district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of the Republican Louis C. Wyman on January 3, 1965. But since he lost to Wyman in the elections of 1966, he was able to complete up to January 3, 1967, only one term in Congress, which was dominated by discussions about the Vietnam war and civil rights issues. After the end of his time in the House of Representatives to Huot withdrew from politics. He died on 5 August 1983 in his birthplace of Laconia and was also buried there.