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Ezekiel A. Straw
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Ezekiel Albert Straw (December 30, 1819–October 23, 1882), was an engineer, businessman, and politician from Manchester, New Hampshire.
Straw was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire and attended Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
In 1838, as a young engineer for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire, Straw laid out the grid pattern for the Manchester's city streets.
In 1842, he founded (1842) Manchester's First Unitarian Society.
Straw was a Republican state representative from 1859 to 1864 and a state senator from 1864 to 1866. In his second year in the state senate, he served as that body's president.
He later served two terms as a Republican governor of New Hampshire.
Straw died in 1882 in Manchester. He is buried in Manchester's Valley Cemetery.
| Preceded by James A. Weston |
Governor of New Hampshire 1872–1874 |
Succeeded by James A. Weston |
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