Hugh Gregg (November 22, 1917September 24, 2003) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 68th

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from 1953 to 1955, and was the youngest person ever elected to that office. He is the father of former U.S. Senator, former governor, and former U.S. Congressman

Judd Gregg Judd Alan Gregg (born February 14, 1947) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 76th governor of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1993 and was a United States senator from New Hampshire; in the Senate, Gregg served as chairman of the S ...

of New Hampshire.

Life and career

A native of Nashua, New Hampshire, Gregg was the son of Margaret Prentiss (Richardson) and Harry Alan Gregg. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from

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in 1939 and Harvard Law School in 1942, after which he returned to Nashua and started a law practice. During

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and the

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, he served as in the

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. A

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, he was elected in 1947 as a city

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, and was subsequently elected

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in 1950, a term cut short because of military duty. He served again in Army Counterintelligence (1950–1952) during the

. In 1952, he was elected as governor of New Hampshire. Gregg was also a local businessman involved with the family mill-working business. He was instrumental in setting up the Nashua Foundation, which helped the city recover from the loss of

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in the 1950s, by recruiting new industry, including defense electronics firms and, later, Digital Equipment Corp. In later years, Gregg was best known for his defense of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, as well as his contention that the Republican Party started in this state. Gregg was known for a sense of humor, reflected in a small hardback book he published, titled ''All I learned about politics, by Hugh Gregg''. All of its pages are blank.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gregg, Judd 1917 births 2003 deaths Republican Party governors of New Hampshire Mayors of Nashua, New Hampshire United States Army officers American Congregationalists Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Yale University alumni Harvard Law School alumni Politicians from Nashua, New Hampshire 20th-century American politicians