Henry Styles Bridges
United States Senator from New Hampshire
In office January 3, 1937 – November 26, 1961
Preceded by	Henry W. Keyes
Succeeded by	Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
In office January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955
Preceded by	Kenneth McKellar
Succeeded by	Walter F. George
10th United States Senate Minority Leader
In office January 8, 1952 – January 3, 1953
Deputy	Leverett Saltonstall (whip)
Preceded by	Kenneth S. Wherry
Succeeded by	Lyndon B. Johnson
63rd Governor of New Hampshire
In office January 3, 1935 – January 7, 1937
Preceded by	John G. Winant
Succeeded by	Francis P. Murphy
Personal details
Born	(1898-09-09)September 9, 1898 Pembroke, Maine
Died	November 26, 1961(1961-11-26) (aged 63) Concord, New Hampshire
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	(1) Sally Clement (2) Doloris Thauwald

Henry Styles Bridges (September 9, 1898 – November 26, 1961) was an American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, New Hampshire. He served one term as the 63rd Governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four year career in the United States Senate.

Bridges was born in West Pembroke, Maine. He attended the public schools in Maine. He attended the University of Maine at Orono until 1918. From 1918 he held a variety of jobs, including teaching, newspaper editing, business and state government. He was an instructor at Sanderson Academy, Ashfield, Massachusetts from 1918 to 1919. He was a member of the extension staff of the University of New Hampshire at Durham from 1921 until 1922. He was the secretary of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation from 1922 until 1923, and the editor of the Granite Monthly Magazine from 1924 until 1926. Meanwhile, He was the director and secretary of the New Hampshire Investment Corporation from 1924 until 1929. He was then a member of the New Hampshire Public Service Commission from 1930 until 1934.

Bridges ran for the position of governor of New Hampshire in 1934, and won, becoming the nation's youngest governor at the time, according to John Gunther's book, Inside U.S.A.. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1936, and would serve until his death in 1961. In 1937 he retired from the Army Reserve Corps, in which he had served as a Lieutenant since 1925. In 1940 he attempted to win the Republican nomination for President; the nomination was eventually won by Wendell Willkie. That same year, Bridges also received two delegates for the Republican vice presiential nomination, which eventually went to Charles L. McNary. Bridges broke his hip on New Year's Eve 1941 and missed several months of the next Senate session.

In the Senate, John Gunther wrote, Bridges was "an aggressive reactionary on most issues...and he is pertinaciously engaged in a continual running fight with the CIO, the Roosevelt family and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." (Inside U.S.A., p. 471)

Bridges was reelected to four subsequent terms in 1942, 1948, 1954, and 1960, but he did not complete his final term due to his death. He became the highest-ranking Republican senator, serving as chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation when the Republicans had control of the Senate from 1947 until 1949, Senate Minority Leader from 1952 until 1953, President pro tempore of the United States Senate when the Republicans had control of it from 1953 until 1955, chairman of the Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements for both of the inaugurations of President Dwight Eisenhower, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations when the Republicans had control of the Senate from 1947–1949 and 1953–1955, and Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee from 1954 until his death.

Interstate 93 in New Hampshire, from Concord north to the Vermont state line, is named the Styles Bridges Highway.

  Death and burial

Bridges died in East Concord and was buried there in Pine Grove Cemetery.

In 1961, after Bridges' death, his widow received six large envelopes that rumors claim contained unreported cash contributions from lobbyists and corporations, according to Lewis L. Gould's book The Most Exclusive Club. The book cites as a reference on the charge the biography Styles Bridges: Yankee Senator, by James J. Kiepper, Phoenix Publishing (2001) ISBN 0-914659-93-6.

  External links

• Biographic Sketch at U.S. Congress website
• Styles at New Hampshire's Division of Historic Resources
• A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Sen. Styles Bridges (September 12, 1952)" is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
• A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Sen. Styles Bridges (April 14, 1952)" is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]

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