Robert P. Bass

Robert Perkins Bass ( born September 1, 1873 in Chicago, Illinois, † July 29, 1960 in Peterborough, New Hampshire ) was an American politician and 1911-1913 Governor of the State of New Hampshire.

Early years and political rise

In 1882 came the nine -year-old Robert Bass with his parents in Peterborough, New Hampshire. There, the family bought a farm, on which the young Robert grew up. By 1896, he studied at Harvard University. After that he devoted some time to the agriculture and forestry, in which he sound scientific methods.

Bass was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1905 and 1909 he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. After that, he was from 1909 to 1910 to the State Senate. Between 1906 and 1910 he was also Chairman of the Forestry Commission of his state. In 1910 he was elected governor. This office he accepted on January 5, 1911.

Governor of New Hampshire

In his two-year tenure as governor child labor time was redefined. At that time, emerged with the Bureau of Labor a precursor of an employment office and a service commission. In addition, a law was prepared, should regulate the accident compensation and severance pay ( Workmens compensation bill ). In the presidential elections of 1912 Bass did not support President William Howard Taft, the candidate of his party, but the former president Theodore Roosevelt, who took for the Progressive Party. Then was a result of the fragmentation of the Republican voters in these two candidates Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, was elected as the new President. For New Hampshire and its Governor, these events also had consequences. For a bass fell because of his support of Roosevelt in his party's favor. The party itself was similar to the federal government, divided into two camps and thus the next gubernatorial election by the Democrats could be won. With Samuel D. Felker a Democrat in 1912 for the first time since 1874 re-elected to the highest office of the State.

Further CV

In the following years, the Republican Party behaved towards bass reserved or hostile. Both in 1913 and in 1926 they denied him the nomination for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In 1923, he was but once again elected to the House of Representatives of his State. During World War II he was employed by the federal government as Director of the Marine Laboratory, and he headed a special commission of the Federal Government, the National Adjustment Commission was called. Robert Bass lived until July 1960. Together with his wife Edith Harland Bird he had five children. Both his son, Perkins Bass and his grandson Charles Foster Bass should be a Member of the U.S. Congress later.

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