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===U.S. Senate===
===U.S. Senate===
[[File:Henry Style Bridges 1939.png|thumb|left|230px|Bridges in 1939.]]
Bridges was elected in 1946 to the United States Senate<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=124750 NH US Senate]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved April 25, 2021.</ref> and reelected in 1942,<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=124749 NH US Senate]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved April 18, 2021.</ref> 1948,<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=124748 NH US Senate]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved April 18, 2021.</ref> 1954,<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=91486 NH US Senate]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved April 18, 2021.</ref> and 1960,<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=60053 NH US Senate]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved April 18, 2021.</ref> but he served less than a year of his final term because of his death from a heart attack.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1961/11/27/archives/styles-bridges-is-dead-at-63-republicans-senior-senator.html Styles Bridges Is Dead at 63; Republicans' Senior Senator; Conservative Headed G.O.P. Policy Unit -- Governor of New Hampshire, '34-'36 Styles.Bridges Is Dead at 63; Senwr Repubhcan in Senate]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 25, 2021.</ref> He became the highest-ranking Republican senator, serving as chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation when the Republicans had control of the upper chamber. For a year, he was the [[Senate Minority Leader]]. In 1954, he was one of twenty-two mostly [[conservative]] senators, all Republicans, who voted against the [[censure]] of Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] of [[Wisconsin]], who exposed [[communist]] infiltration of the U.S. government.<ref>Two references:
Bridges was elected in 1946 to the United States Senate<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=124750 NH US Senate]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved April 25, 2021.</ref> and reelected in 1942,<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=124749 NH US Senate]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved April 18, 2021.</ref> 1948,<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=124748 NH US Senate]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved April 18, 2021.</ref> 1954,<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=91486 NH US Senate]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved April 18, 2021.</ref> and 1960,<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=60053 NH US Senate]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved April 18, 2021.</ref> but he served less than a year of his final term because of his death from a heart attack.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1961/11/27/archives/styles-bridges-is-dead-at-63-republicans-senior-senator.html Styles Bridges Is Dead at 63; Republicans' Senior Senator; Conservative Headed G.O.P. Policy Unit -- Governor of New Hampshire, '34-'36 Styles.Bridges Is Dead at 63; Senwr Repubhcan in Senate]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 25, 2021.</ref> He became the highest-ranking Republican senator, serving as chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation when the Republicans had control of the upper chamber. For a year, he was the [[Senate Minority Leader]]. In 1954, he was one of twenty-two mostly [[conservative]] senators, all Republicans, who voted against the [[censure]] of Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] of [[Wisconsin]], who exposed [[communist]] infiltration of the U.S. government.<ref>Two references:
*U.S. Senate ''Congressional Record'', roll call vote on Senate Resolution 301, December 2, 1954.
*U.S. Senate ''Congressional Record'', roll call vote on Senate Resolution 301, December 2, 1954.