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New Hampshire: Marshall Cobleigh

February 1, 2009 - 02:05 pm
NEWS FEED: Blue Hampshire

Former House Speaker Cobleigh Died

By Alex Gallichon

Former state House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh, a champion of the First Amendment and the state's presidential primary, died yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after a lengthy illness.

He was 78.

"He really is the history of New Hampshire politics," Concord attorney Tom Rath said last night. "He had great institutional memory. He loved the give and take."

Cobleigh, who became a state representative in 1963, served as House speaker from 1969 to 1972.

More in the Union Leader. His book, We Ain't Making Sausage Here, is the best I've read about post-war New Hampshire politics.  

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Mon, 09/15/2008 - 15:01

N.H. GOP says Shaheen has flipped on nuclear energy

By Brian Lawson, PolitickerNH.com Reporter

The New Hampshire Republican Party has released videos from a 1987 television program that they say shows former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen (D-Madbury) has changed her position on nuclear energy, videos the Shaheen campaign says were "taken out of context."

The videos show Shaheen debating former House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh on WMUR's Close-Up. At the time Shaheen was the campaign manager for Paul McEachern's gubernatorial campaign.

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Mon, 08/18/2008 - 09:25

Manney announces endorsements

By Brian Lawson, PolitickerNH.com Reporter

Pam Manney (R-Goffstown), a candidate for Hillsborough County Commissioner, has released a list of endorsements three weeks before the Republican primary.

The list includes the former speaker of the New Hampshire House Marshall Cobleigh, retired Executive Director of the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority Claira Monier and Judith MacDonald, the outgoing Hillsborough Registrar of Deeds.

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Thu, 07/03/2008 - 17:44

Today in the U.S. Senate race

By Brian Lawson, PolitickerNH.com Reporter

Editors note: This is a daily summary of news about the U.S. Senate race between U.S. Sen. John Sununu (R-Waterville Valley) and former Gov.

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