Thomas J. McIntyre

Thomas James McIntyre ( born February 20, 1915 in Laconia, New Hampshire; † August 8, 1992 in Palm Beach, Florida ) was an American politician.

McIntyre attended Manlius Military School in Manlius, New York, Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and the Law School of Boston University. In 1940 he was admitted for negotiations at the New Hampshire Supreme Court. 1942-1946 served McIntyre in the U.S. Army. Upon retirement from active service, he held the rank of Major. He returned to his hometown and was from 1949 to 1951 mayor of Laconia.

1954 candidate McIntyre unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. It was not until 1962, when he was elected in a by-election in the U.S. Senate on November 6 to reoccupy the vacant seat of Henry Styles Bridges, he managed to gain a mandate for the Congress. He thus replaced from Maurice J. Murphy, who had occupied the seat until the election of McIntyre. McIntyre represented the State of New Hampshire now of 7 November 1962 to 3 January 1979 as a Democratic senator in the U.S. Senate. In the elections of 1978, he could not defend his seat.

After the end of his political career McIntyre lived in his home town of Laconia and in Tequesta, Florida. He died in 1992 in Palm Beach and was buried at the St. Lambert Cemetery in Laconia.

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