Foster Waterman Stearns

Foster Waterman Stearns

Foster Waterman Stearns (born July 29, 1881 in Hull , Plymouth County , Massachusetts , †  June 4, 1956 in Exeter , New Hampshire ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1945 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Foster Stearns attended the public schools of his home country and then Amherst College until 1903 . He then studied at Harvard University until 1906 . Stearns graduated from Boston College in 1915 . Between 1913 and 1917 he was a librarian at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston . During the First World War , he was first lieutenant in an infantry unit in the US Army from November 1917 . Later he was a staff officer at the American headquarters in France .

After the war, Stearns served in the diplomatic service. In 1919 he worked as a military attaché at the American embassy in Belgium . From 1920 to 1921 he was directly employed by the State Department in Washington . He then worked at the US embassy in Constantinople in Turkey until 1923 and then at the embassy in Paris until 1924 . Between 1925 and 1930, Stearns worked as a librarian at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts. Since 1927 he was based in Hancock, New Hampshire.

Stearns was a member of the Republican Party . He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1937 and 1938 . In 1940 and 1948 he took part as a delegate at the respective Republican National Conventions . From 1941 to 1945 he was a member of the board of directors ( regent ) of the Smithsonian Institution . In 1938, Stearns was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the Second Constituency of New Hampshire, where he succeeded Charles W. Tobey on January 3, 1939 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three consecutive legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1945 , which had been overshadowed by the events of World War II since December 1941 .

In 1944, Stearns declined to run again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the Senate elections . In the following years Stearns dealt with educational issues in foreign countries. In 1942 he became a director of Rumford Printing Co. in Concord . In 1948 he moved to Exeter, where he died on June 4, 1956.

Web links

• Foster Waterman Stearns in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Foster Waterman Stearns in the database of Find a Grave (English)