Alonzo Nute

Alonzo Nute (born February 12, 1826 in Milton , Strafford County , New Hampshire , † December 24, 1892 in Farmington , New Hampshire) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1891 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alonzo Nute attended public schools in his home country. In 1842 he moved to Natick , Massachusetts , where he lived until 1848. He then returned to New Hampshire, where he made shoes and boots in Farmington. Nute served in a New Hampshire infantry unit during the Civil War . After the end of the war, Nute began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1866 he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives , from 1867 to 1868 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1876 Nute was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati , where Rutherford B. Hayes was nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

In 1888, Nute was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first district of New Hampshire , where he succeeded the Democrat Luther F. McKinney on March 4, 1889 . Since he refused to run again in 1890, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1891 . During this time, the states of North Dakota , South Dakota , Montana , Washington , Idaho and Wyoming joined the union. Alonzo Nute died in Farmington on Christmas Eve 1892.

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SURNAME	Nute, Alonzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Milton , New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH	December 24, 1892
Place of death	Farmington , New Hampshire