- Bill Zeliff
Infobox_Congressman
name =Bill Zeliff
date of birth= Birth date and age|1936|6|12|mf=y
place of birth=East Orange, New Jersey
death_date =
death_place =
state =New Hampshire
district = 1st
term =January 3 ,1991 –January 3 ,1997
preceded =Robert C. Smith
succeeded =John E. Sununu
party = Republican
religion = Protestant
spouse = Sydna Taylor ZeliffWilliam H. Zeliff, Jr. (born
June 12 ,1936 ) is a Republicanpolitician fromNew Hampshire who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1997.Born in
East Orange, New Jersey , Zeliff graduated from Milford High School inMilford, Connecticut in 1954 and received hisB.S. at theUniversity of Connecticut in 1959. He served in theConnecticut Army National Guard from 1958 to 1964 and afterwards was in theUnited States Army Reserve .Zeliff worked as a sales and marketing manager in the consumer products division of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company from 1959 to 1976 and was also an
inn keeper and small business owner. He ran unsuccessfully for theNew Hampshire Senate in 1984 and was a delegate to the1988 Republican National Convention which nominatedGeorge H. W. Bush for the presidency. He was elected to theUnited States House of Representatives in 1990, took seat in 1991 and was reelected in 1992 and 1994. In 1996, Zeliff opted to instead run in the gubernatorial race forGovernor of New Hampshire . He lost the nomination to the chairman of the New Hampshire Board of Education Ovide P. Lamontagne who went on to lose the election to New Hampshire State SenatorJeanne Shaheen .Today, Zeliff works as a private
advocate . He is married to Sydna Taylor whom he had three children with.ources
* [http://www.efnh.org/zeliff.html Electronic Frontiers New Hampshire: Bill Zeliff]
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