New Hampshire Governor

Ezekiel Albert Straw b. 1819 in Massachusetts. Governor of New Hampshire. Straw served as a Republican legislator from Manchester (1859/64) and was a State Senator (1864/6; President of the Senate (1865/6). He served on the staff of Governor Onslow Stearns (1869) and in 1870 was appointed to the to the executive board of the Planning Commission for the 1876 Centennial Exposition to be held at Philadelphia. He was nominated for governor and won the election (1872); he was reelected in 1873

Lineage: Ezekial Albert Straw 1819 was the son of Mehitable Fisk 1800