Louis C. Wyman

Louis Crosby Wyman ( born March 16, 1917 in Manchester, New Hampshire; † 5 May 2002, West Palm Beach, Florida ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of New Hampshire in both chambers of Congress. In the Senate of the United States, he completed while a period of only four days.

Legal career

Louis Wyman attended the University of New Hampshire in Durham, in the 1938 he received his degree. In 1941, the legal examination at the Law School of Harvard University, after which he was admitted to the Bar Association of Massachusetts and New Hampshire and began practicing in Boston. During the Second World War, he served from 1942 with the rank of Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and was used in Alaska.

He left the military in 1946 This year, Wyman was still as legal adviser to a Senate committee in Washington operates.; In 1947 he became secretary of U.S. Senator Styles Bridges. Thereafter, he served from 1948 to 1949 as a legal advisor to a joint congress committee on economic aid abroad. Between 1953 and 1961 Wyman exercised the office of Attorney General of New Hampshire from; while he stood before 1957 as president of the National Association of Attorneys General ( National Association of Attorneys General ). Eventually, he became in 1961 a member of the senior staff of the Governor of New Hampshire. He also sat on numerous legal committees at the state level.

Policy

1962 Wyman applied for the first time to a national political office. He was elected as a representative of the first congress District of New Hampshire House of Representatives of the United States, where he initially remained only from 3 January 1963 to 3 January 1965. In 1966 he joined but again against the previously victorious Democrats Joseph Oliva Huot and was successful. Three more confirmations by the voters followed.

In 1974 Wyman not stand for re- election. Instead, he ran for the U.S. Senate, where the mandate of voluntarily retiring Republican Norris Cotton was vacant. Wyman met the Democrat John A. Durkin, defeating these just by a margin of 355 votes. However, Durkin demanded a recount of the votes, then by ten votes saw him again. Governor Meldrim Thomson told the Democrats then the winner; However, now consisted Wyman on a recount, which in turn yielded a different result: Well, there were two more votes for the Republicans.

Meanwhile Cottons tenure was almost completed as a senator. He resigned on December 31, 1974; on the same day Wyman was appointed by Governor Thomson as a successor for the remaining four days of the session. John Durkin, however, did not give up and took his concerns to the plenary of the Senate before. Then, the Rules Committee was tasked with resolving the problem, but this did not succeed. The Senate seat was vacant, the Democrats took several unsuccessful attempts to have Durkin confirmed as a senator during this time. Finally Wyman proposed a new election, which Durkin accepted. On August 8, 1975 Norris Cotton took over as acting again his former seat

The by-election yielded a now comparatively clear lead of 28,000 votes for the Democrats Durkin. Thus Wyman had to give up the Senate seat. He retired from politics after that and still officiated from 1978 to 1987 as a judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire. He spent his retirement alternately in his home town of Manchester and West Palm Beach, where he succumbed to the effects of cancer in May 2002.