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8 NEW HAMPSHIRE: First in the Nation 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the NEW HAMPSHIRE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY 8. e first state where the Republican Party was named and founded at an organizational meeting held in Exeter New Hampshire on May 21, 1853. 9. e first state, each year until 1878, following the establishment of the two modern day political parties to conduct its state-wide general election. It was always held on the second Tuesday in March and served as an early political barometer of popular feeling noted across the country and was the forerunner of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. 10. e first New Hampshire First-in-the-Nation Presidential Primary was March 9, 1920. 11. e first state to have a racially integrated baseball team in the major league system. is team was the 1946 Nashua N.H. Dodgers that included Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella, both of whom went on to have distinguished careers in the major leagues and paved the way for Jackie Robinson. 12. e first American in space was Captain Alan B. Shepard, Jr. of Derry (1961) and the first civilian astronaut, Christa McAuliffe of Concord (1986). 13. e first state legislative body to have women as the majority of its members (State Senate-December 3, 2008). 14. e first state to have an all-woman elected congressional delegation when the 113th Congress convened on January 3, 2013. As we prepare for the up-coming 100th anniversary of the first New Hampshire Presidential Primary, held on March 14, 1916, we honor the memory of State Representative Stephen Bullock of Richmond who wrote the legislation that created what has become the First-in-the-Nation Presidential Primary. v William M. Gardner New Hampshire Secretary of State Eisenhower with NH Governor Lane Dwinell at a chicken barbeque at what is now the Gunstock Mountain Resort, owned and operated by Belknap County. After completing two terms as governor (1955-1959) Eisenhower appointed Dwinell Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1959-1961). Nixon visiting St. A's in his 1960 campaign for president against JFK. With him is the late NH senior US Senator Styles Bridges who, four years before had launched a successful write-in campaign to keep Nixon on the ticket for re-election as Eisenhower's VP (some GOP factions wanted him replaced). The first American in space was Captain Alan B. Shepard, Jr. of Derry (1961) and the first civilian astronaut, Christa McAuliffe of Concord (1986). P H O T O S : C O U R T E S Y N H S E C R E TA R Y O F S TAT E , A R C H I V E S A N D R E C O R D S M A N A G E M E N T