Stephen James Shurtleff (born September 4, 1947) is an American politician from the state of

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. He formerly served as

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A member of the

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, he serves as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from the Merrimack 11th district. Shurtleff is a Vietnam veteran and a retired Supervisory Deputy US Marshal. While in the NH House he has held the positions of Committee Chair, Minority Leader, as well as Majority Leader. He previously served eleven years as an At Large member of the Concord City Council (2007 to 2018).

Career

In 2004, Shurtleff ran for election to the New Hampshire House of Representatives as a

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. He was also elected as an at-large member of the

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in 2007. Shurtleff served as the

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of the New Hampshire House in the 2012-14 session. When the Republican Party took control of the chamber in the 2014 elections in November 2014, the Democratic caucus elected Shurtleff as the new minority leader of the New Hampshire House, succeeding outgoing

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Terie Norelli Terie Norelli is a Democratic former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, serving the Rockingham 16th District and later 26th District from 1996 through 2014. She served as Speaker of the House for six years, from 2006 to 201 ...

as the Democratic leader. He served as speaker of the house from 2018 to 2020, while Democrats had the majority. In 2022, in the spirit of bipartisanship, former Speaker Shurtleff was named Speaker Emeritus of the N.H. House by the Republican House Speaker Sherm Packard. He is the first member of the N.H. House to hold all four of House's leadership positions, Minority Leader, Majority Leader, Speaker and Speaker Emeritus.

Personal life

Shurtleff is from Ward One of Concord, New Hampshire, the village of Penacook. In 2020 he was one of New Hampshire's four Presidential Electors. Shurtleff is a graduate of the Harold Washington School, of the City College of Chicago. In 2013, Shurtleff received the Henry Toll Fellowship from the Council of State Government. In 2015, he received the Caroline Gross Fellowship to attend the Senior Government Executive training program at Harvard's Kennedy School. He has three children.

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