Finlay C. Rothhaus (born 1956) is a former member of the
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. He represented Merrimack from 1991 until 1995 as a member of the
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and is a current member of the Merrimack
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and the
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. He also spent three years in the U.S. Army. As of 2006 he had been married 20 years with three children. Outside politics Rothhaus worked as a servicer of spas and swimming pools.
Career
Having originally been elected as a member of the
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in 1990, Rothhaus joined the
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in 1991. The next year he was re-elected as a Libertarian. He went on to serve on the Merrimack selectboard from 1995 until 2001. In 2001 he unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the Merrimack school board. In October 2003 he was sworn in for a six-month term as a member of Merrimack's ethics committee. In May 2015 he endorsed
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's
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. As of 2017 he is a member of the Merrimack Town Council, serving a three-year term that will expire in 2020.