By John S. Frum | October 22, 2023
Today’s thumbnail biography of Rep. Frank G. Horne completes Ms. Bristol’s Milton’s NH State Representatives – 1803-1902. (Although she hopes to go back at some point and update those written before she was able to abstract a sampling of their roll call votes).
Milton would seem to have had no NH State Representative in 1841 which was the first year of the 1841-42 biennium. For a number of biennia that followed Milton had NH State Representative terms that were a year “out of synchronization” with the other towns, i.e., an even second year of one biennium and an odd first year of the following biennium, rather than the usual odd year and an even year sequence. The reason had not yet been discovered.
Beginning with the second year of the 1851-52 biennium, which would have been a redistricting year. Milton had next a twenty-five-year run of having two NH State Representatives, although one of them continued initially to be “out of synchronization” with the rest of the NH House until the 1855-56 biennium.
At some point, probably by the end of this year or beginning of 2024, Ms. Bristol intends to extend the sequence of these officials with Milton’s NH State Representatives, 1903-1954.
She will not bring this sequence forward past the Milton representative of the 1953-54 biennium, Rep. George W.H. Longley, as she is reluctant to provide information on living people that might be abused by scammers.
References:
Milton Observer 