Alonzo NUTE, Congress, NH (1826-1892)

NUTE, Alonzo, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Milton, Strafford County, N.H., February 12, 1826; attended the common schools; moved to Natick, Mass., in 1842; returned to New Hampshire in 1848 and engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes in Farmington; in the spring of 1861, entered the Union Army in the Sixth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry; member of the New Hampshire house of representatives in 1866; served in the State senate in 1867 and 1868; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renomination in 1890; died in Farmington, Strafford County, N.H., December 24, 1892; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present