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Shaw Research Library of the Portsmouth Athenaeum at 9 Market Square in Portsmouth, NH

Thomas D. Rath served as the 21st Attorney General of New Hampshire, succeeding David Souter upon the latter's appointment to the New Hampshire Superior Court in 1978.

Rath is the founder of the law firm of Rath, Young & Pignatelli and has been actively involved in government relations since entering private practice in 1980.  Mr. Rath was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to be a director of the Legal Services Corporation. He served as the chairman of the election campaigns of New Hampshire’s former U.S. Senators Warren Rudman and Judd Gregg, and he actively assisted in the U.S. Senate process that confirmed David Souter as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

He has served as a senior national advisor to the presidential campaigns of Howard Baker, Robert Dole, Lamar Alexander, Mitt Romney, and George W. Bush. He was a delegate to each of the Republican National Conventions from 1984 through 2016, and he was the Republican Party National Committeeman for New Hampshire from 1996-2000 and 2002-2007. Rath is widely respected as a political analyst at both the state and national level, and he appears regularly on national, regional and state television newsmaker programs.
 
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