Thomas J. McIntyre

Infobox Senator | name= Thomas J. McIntyre
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jr/sr=United States Senator
state=New Hampshire
party=Democratic
term_start=November 7, 1962
term_end=January 3, 1979
preceded=Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.
succeeded=Gordon J. Humphrey
date of birth=February 20, 1915
place of birth=Laconia, New Hampshire
date of death= August 8, 1992
place of death=Palm Beach, Florida
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Thomas James McIntyre (February 20, 1915 – August 8, 1992) was a U.S. senator from New Hampshire, and a member of the Democratic Party.

Born in Laconia, New Hampshire, he attended the public and parochial schools of Laconia; he graduated from Manlius Military School in Manlius, New York, in 1933, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1937, and Boston University Law School in 1940; admitted to practice law before the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 1940.

McIntyre served in the United States Army 1942–1946 and was discharged as a major.

He was Mayor of Laconia, New Hampshire from 1949 to 1951 and city solicitor in 1953.

Unsuccessful candidate for 84th Congress in 1954; he was elected in a special election on November 6, 1962, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the unexpired term of Henry Styles Bridges ending January 3, 1967; reelected in 1966 for the full six-year term, and again in 1972 and served from November 7, 1962, until January 3, 1979.

McIntyre ran for reelection in 1978, but narrowly lost to Republican Gordon Humphrey, who took advantage of a nationwide conservative movement and McIntyre's tendency to spend more time in Florida than in the state he represented in the Senate.

He was a resident of Laconia, New Hampshire and Tequesta, Florida, until his death in Palm Beach, Florida on August 8, 1992; interment in St. Lambert Cemetery in Laconia.

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