Chester Earl Merrow (November 15, 1906 – February 10, 1974) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
New Hampshire.
Born in
Center Ossipee, New Hampshire
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, Merrow attended the public schools and
Brewster Free Academy in
Wolfeboro
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History
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from 1921 to 1925. He was graduated from
Colby College,
Waterville, Maine
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, in 1929 and from Teachers College (summers) (
Columbia University),
New York City, in 1937.
Merrow was an instructor of science at
Kents Hill School in
Maine in 1929 and 1930 and at
Montpelier Seminary from 1930 to 1937. He served as assistant headmaster of Montpelier Seminary from 1935 to 1938. He was an instructor of political science and history at Vermont Junior College in Montpelier in 1937 and 1938.
Merrow was a member of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives
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in 1939 and 1940. He became a radio news commentator and lecturer, and served as delegate to an international conference on education and cultural relations of the
United Nations, held in
London in 1945. He was a congressional adviser to the first conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (
UNESCO) held in
Paris in 1946. He served as a member of the United States delegation to UNESCO 1946-1949.
Merrow was elected as a
Republican to the
Seventy-eighth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1963). Merrow voted in favor of the
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and
1960
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, but voted present the
24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
He was not a candidate for reelection in 1962 to the
Eighty-eighth Congress, but was unsuccessful for nomination to the
United States Senate. Subsequently, he was Special Adviser on Community Relations,
Department of State
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, from 1963 to 1968. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1970 to the
Ninety-second Congress and in 1972 to the
Ninety-third Congress. He resided in Center Ossipee until his death there, February 10, 1974.
He was interred in Chickville Cemetery.
References
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1906 births
1974 deaths
Colby College alumni
Teachers College, Columbia University alumni
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire
Republican Party members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
20th-century American legislators
People from Ossipee, New Hampshire
20th-century New Hampshire politicians