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 HON. ALVAH W. SULLOWAY.

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��From his youth Mr. Sulloway has takeu much interest in political affairs. Strong- ly attached to the principles of the Democratic party, ardent, enthusiastic and persistent in his efforts for its suc- cess, he has become one of its recognized leaders in his section of the State. He was elected a representative from Frank- lin to the legislature in 1871, although there was at the time a decided party majority against him in the town. He was re-elected the following year and again in 1874 and 1875. In the legisla- ture he was a working rather than a talk- ing member, serving in 1S71 upon the committee on elections ; in 1872 upon the railroad committee : in 1874 as chairman of the committee on manufactures, for which position he was eminently well qualified, and in 1875 again upon the elec- tions committee. In 1871 Mr. Sulloway was the Democratic candidate for Railroad Commissioner upon the ticket with Gov. Weston, and, there being no choice by the people, was elected to that office by the legislature, and ably discharged his duties for the full term of three years.

Mr. Sulloway was one of the delegates to the National Democratic Convention at St. Louis, in June, 1876, which nomi- nated Samuel J. Tilden for the Presi- dency, and was selected by the delega- tion as the New Hampshire member of the Democratic National Executive Com- mittee, which position he now holds. Last winter he was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Second District, against Hon. James F. Briggs of Manchester, the Republi- can nominee, and, although his party was in a hopeless minority in the Dis- trict, he made a vigorous canvass and ran several hundred votes ahead of his ticket. He has been for several years an active member of the Democratic State Committee, and for the last two years one of the advisory couimitte of three

��having charge of the active work of the canvass.

Mr. Sulloway married, in 1866, Miss Susan K. Daniell, a daughter of the late J. T. Daniell of the old and well-known paper manufacturing firm of Peabody & Daniell, and sister of Hon. Warren F. Daniell and Frank H. Daniell, his former partner, before mentioned. They have two children, a daughter six, and a son about two years of age. Last season Mr, Sulloway completed an elegant new residence, which is delightfully located in a bend of the Winnipiseogee River, a short distance from his mill. The house is of modern design, convenient in all its appointments, thoroughly finished and richly furnished throughout, and all the surroundings are suggestive of taste and comfort.

Mr. Sulloway is a man of sanguine temperament, of strong physical consti- tution, vigorous mental powers, and in- domitable energy, and labors persistently in any work which he undertakes, wheth- er in business or politics. Ardent in his attachments, social and generous, he has many warm personal friends, which accounts in part, for the large vote he always receives in his town and vicinity when a candidate for office. In his reli- gious sentiments Mr. Sulloway is liberal, having been reared in the Universalist faith, while his wife is a Unitarian. In all matters pertaining to the public wel- fare he always manifests a strong inter- est, and is among the foremost in sup- porting and carrying out all reasonable projects of local improvement. In this respect the town of Franklin is highty favored, numbering among its citizens many public-spirited men, to whose ef- forts, along with its superior natural ad- vantages, it owes the prominent position it now occupies among the flourishing manufacturing towns of the State.

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