Charles William Tobey (22 July 1880 – 24 July 1953) was the Republican Governor of New Hampshire from 3 January 1929 to 1 January 1931 (succeeding Huntley N. Spaulding and preceding John Gilbert Winant), a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NH 2) from 4 March 1933 to 3 January 1939 (succeeding Edward Hills Wason and preceding Foster Waterman Stearns), and a US Senator from 3 January 1939 to 24 July 1953 (succeeding Fred H. Brown and preceding Robert W. Upton).
Biography[]
Charles William Tobey was born in Roxbury (now in Boston), Massachusetts in 1880, and he and his wife purchased an old farm in Temple, New Hampshire, from which Tobey commuted to Boston to work as an insurance and bank clerk. He later decided to become a full-time farmer, and he served on the school board and board of selectmen in Temple before being elected to the state legislature in 1914 as the Bull Moose Party candidate. He returned to the Republican Party after that election, and he served in the State Senate during the 1920s. As Governor from 1929 to 1931, he supported the New Deal while also supporting a tight budget, but he later became a fierce foe of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and government expansion. During his service in the US Congress, he was an isolationist who occasionally dealt in anti-Semitism. He died in office in 1953.