Henry W. Keyes

Henry Wilder Keyes
Henry Wilder Keyes
56th Governor of New Hampshire
	In office; January 2, 1917 – January 6, 1919
Preceded by	Rolland H. Spaulding
Succeeded by	John H. Bartlett
United States Senator from; New Hampshire
	In office; March 4, 1919 – January 3, 1937
Preceded by	Henry F. Hollis
Succeeded by	Styles Bridges
Member of the New Hampshire Senate
	In office; 1903–1905
Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
	In office; 1891–1895; 1915–1917
Personal details
Born	May 23, 1863; Newbury, Vermont, U.S.
Died	June 19, 1938 (aged 75); Haverhill, New Hampshire, U.S.
Political party	Republican

Henry Wilder Keyes (/ˈkaɪz/;^[1] May 23, 1863 – June 19, 1938) was an American Republican politician from Haverhill, New Hampshire. He served as the 56th governor of New Hampshire from 1917 to 1919 and as a United States Senator.

Early life

Keyes was born in Newbury, Vermont, on May 23, 1863. He was raised in New Hampshire, and his father was a prominent farmer, merchant, and railroad investor. Keyes graduated from Adams Academy, and then attended Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1887. He was a farmer and cattle breeder, and initiated raising of the Holstein-Friesian breed in the United States. He was also a founder of the Woodsville National Bank, and served as its president.^[2]

Politics

Keyes served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895. He served in the New Hampshire State Senate from 1903 to 1905. He was treasurer of the State license commission from 1903 to 1915, and chairman of the State excise commission from 1915 to 1917. from 1915 to 1917 he served again in the state House of Representatives.^[3]

In 1916 he was elected Governor of New Hampshire, and he served one term, 1917 to 1919.^[4]

Keyes ran successfully for the United States Senate in 1918. He was reelected in 1924 and 1930 and served from March 4, 1919, to January 3, 1937. He did not seek another term in the 1936 election.^[3] As a senator, he was noted for not speaking on the floor, even nodding or shaking his head to vote "aye" or "nay." The one exception was his motion to adjourn during a long winded speech by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Pat Harrison.^[5]

During his Senate career, Keyes served as chairman of: the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-sixth Congress); Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses); and Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses).^[6]

Personal

In 1904, Keyes married Frances Parkinson Wheeler, who as Frances Parkinson Keyes became a prolific author.^[4] He was forty, she was eighteen. They had three sons together—Henry Wilder Keyes, Jr., John Parkinson Keyes, and Francis Keyes.

Keyes died on June 19, 1938, in North Haverhill, New Hampshire, and is buried at the Oxbow Cemetery in Newbury, Vermont.

He was the recipient of an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth College and was also as honorary Bachelor of Science and LL.D. of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (now the University of New Hampshire).

References

^ Ray, Duckler (December 2, 2012). "Former governor Keyes portrait to finally hang at State House". Concord Monitor. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.
^ Sobel, Robert; Raimo, John, eds. (1978). Biographical directory of the governors of the United States, 1789-1978. Vol. 3. Westport, Conn.: Meckler Books. pp. 988–989. ISBN 9780930466008.
^ ^a ^b "Henry W. Keyes, A Guide to Likenesses of New Hampshire Officials and Governors on Public Display at the Legislative Office Building and the State House Concord, New Hampshire, to 1998, New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources". www.nh.gov. Archived from the original on July 6, 2008. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
^ ^a ^b Metcalf, Frances Matilda (1919). One thousand New Hampshire notables. Rumford printing Company.
^ Eliot, Thomas H. (1960-08-01). "The Social Security Bill: 25 Years After". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
^ "KEYES, Henry Wilder". bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 2021-02-14.

External links

Henry W. Keyes at Find a Grave

Party political offices
Preceded by Rolland H. Spaulding	Republican nominee for Governor of New Hampshire 1916	Succeeded by John H. Bartlett
First	Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (Class 2) 1918, 1924, 1930	Succeeded by Styles Bridges
Political offices
Preceded by Rolland H. Spaulding	Governor of New Hampshire 1917–1919	Succeeded by John H. Bartlett
U.S. Senate
Preceded by Henry F. Hollis	United States Senator from New Hampshire 1919–1937	Succeeded by H. Styles Bridges

[1] Ray, Duckler (December 2, 2012). "Former governor Keyes portrait to finally hang at State House". Concord Monitor. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.

[:1-2] Sobel, Robert; Raimo, John, eds. (1978). Biographical directory of the governors of the United States, 1789-1978. Vol. 3. Westport, Conn.: Meckler Books. pp. 988–989. ISBN 9780930466008.

[:2-3] "Henry W. Keyes, A Guide to Likenesses of New Hampshire Officials and Governors on Public Display at the Legislative Office Building and the State House Concord, New Hampshire, to 1998, New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources". www.nh.gov. Archived from the original on July 6, 2008. Retrieved 2021-02-14.

[:0-4] Metcalf, Frances Matilda (1919). One thousand New Hampshire notables. Rumford printing Company.

[5] Eliot, Thomas H. (1960-08-01). "The Social Security Bill: 25 Years After". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-11-12.

[6] "KEYES, Henry Wilder". bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 2021-02-14.

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v t e United States senators from New Hampshire
Class 2	Wingate Livermore Olcott Gilman Thompson Morril S. Bell Hubbard Woodbury Jenness Cilley Hale Atherton Williams Hale Cragin Rollins Pike Cheney Chandler Marston Chandler Burnham Hollis Keyes Bridges Murphy McIntyre Humphrey Smith Sununu Shaheen
Class 3	Langdon Sheafe Plumer Parker Cutts Mason Storer Parrott Woodbury Hill Page Pierce Wilcox Atherton Norris Wells J. Bell Clark Fogg Patterson Wadleigh C. Bell Blair Gallinger Drew Moses Brown Tobey Upton Cotton Wyman Cotton Durkin Rudman Gregg Ayotte Hassan

v t e Chairs of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Public Buildings (1838–1857)	Fulton Kerr Dayton Cameron Bright Hunter Whitcomb James Bayard
Public Buildings and Grounds (1857–1947)	Bright Foot Brown Fessenden Morrill Dawes Jones Rollins Mahone Stanford Vest Quay Fairbanks Warren Scott Sutherland Swanson Reed Fernald Lenroot Keyes Connally Maloney Andrews
Public Works (1947–1977)	Revercomb Chávez Martin Chávez McNamara Randolph
Environment and Public Works (1977–present)	Randolph Stafford Burdick Moynihan Baucus Chafee Smith Reid Smith Jeffords Inhofe Boxer Inhofe Barrasso Carper

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