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class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Walter Rutherford Peterson Jr.</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:GWRPeterson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/GWRPeterson.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="203" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="165" data-file-height="203" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">72nd <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire">Governor of New Hampshire</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 2, 1969 – January 4, 1973</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_W._King" title="John W. King">John W. King</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Meldrim_Thomson_Jr." title="Meldrim Thomson Jr.">Meldrim Thomson Jr.</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_House_of_Representatives" title="New Hampshire House of Representatives">New Hampshire House of Representatives</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1961</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1922-09-19</span>)</span>September 19, 1922<br /><a href="/wiki/Nashua,_New_Hampshire" title="Nashua, New Hampshire">Nashua, New Hampshire</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">June 1, 2011<span style="display:none">(2011-06-01)</span> (aged 88)<br /><a href="/wiki/Peterborough,_New_Hampshire" title="Peterborough, New Hampshire">Peterborough, New Hampshire</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Dorothy Donovan</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1949)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_College_of_William_%26_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="The College of William & Mary">College of William and Mary</a> <a href="/wiki/University_of_New_Hampshire" title="University of New Hampshire">University of New Hampshire</a> <a href="/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Walter Rutherford Peterson Jr.</b> (September 19, 1922 – June 1, 2011) was an American realtor, educator, and <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> politician from <a href="/wiki/Peterborough,_New_Hampshire" title="Peterborough, New Hampshire">Peterborough, New Hampshire</a>, who served in the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_House_of_Representatives" title="New Hampshire House of Representatives">New Hampshire House of Representatives</a> and two terms as the 72nd <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire">governor of New Hampshire</a> from 1969 to 1973. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_R._Peterson_Jr.&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Peterson was born September 19, 1922, in <a href="/wiki/Nashua,_New_Hampshire" title="Nashua, New Hampshire">Nashua, New Hampshire</a>, and graduated from <a href="/wiki/Nashua_High_School_South" title="Nashua High School South">Nashua High School</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Hampton_School" title="New Hampton School">New Hampton School</a>. He attended the <a href="/wiki/College_of_William_%26_Mary" title="College of William & Mary">College of William & Mary</a> and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_New_Hampshire" title="University of New Hampshire">University of New Hampshire</a> and graduated from <a href="/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a> in 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-Peterson_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peterson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Peterson left his college studies to fulfill four years' service as a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_Reserve" title="United States Navy Reserve">United States Navy Reserve</a> officer in the South Pacific during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. After graduating from Dartmouth College, Peterson became a partner in The Petersons, Inc., a real estate firm in Peterborough, New Hampshire where he and family members worked until the late 1990s. </p><p>He married Dorothy Donovan in 1949. They had two children, Margaret and Andrew.<sup id="cite_ref-Peterson_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peterson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_R._Peterson_Jr.&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Peterson joined New Hampshire state politics in 1961 where he served as a representative and House Speaker. He served as manager of <a href="/wiki/Norris_Cotton" title="Norris Cotton">Norris Cotton</a>'s Senate campaigns.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governorship">Governorship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_R._Peterson_Jr.&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Governorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A member of the moderate to liberal wing of the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Republican_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Hampshire Republican Party">New Hampshire Republican Party</a>, Peterson served as governor of New Hampshire from 1969–1973, in a period when the state was experiencing rapid growth and looking for ways to fund new infrastructure costs. In order to spur economic growth in the state, Peterson fought for tax reform, eliminating thirteen separate capital and businesses taxes, and replacing them with a tax on business profits.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Peterson also established a “Task Force on Government Organization” in order to modernize state government. Although a Republican, Peterson believed no political party had a monopoly on good ideas, and thought of himself as a governor for all New Hampshirites.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his governorship, Peterson received a phone call from Barbara Battenfeld, a Democrat and anti-Vietnam War activist, who attacked him for not speaking out against the war. Peterson ran into Battenfeld years later and admitted she was right about the war.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Peterson would go on to lose the 1972 Republican primaries to <a href="/wiki/Meldrim_Thomson_Jr." title="Meldrim Thomson Jr.">Meldrim Thomson Jr.</a>, a member of the right wing of the New Hampshire Republican Party, who was endorsed by ultraconservative newspaper publisher <a href="/wiki/William_Loeb_III" title="William Loeb III">William Loeb</a>. Peterson had incurred Loeb's wrath by renouncing a pledge to veto a state income or sales tax by proposing a 3% income tax. Loeb had also attacked Peterson's daughter Margaret for her supposed support of marijuana use, causing her to suffer an emotional breakdown.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_after_politics">Life after politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_R._Peterson_Jr.&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Life after politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After Peterson's term as governor, he became President of <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Pierce_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Pierce College">Franklin Pierce College</a> in 1975, and served until his retirement in 1995. He also served one year as president of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_New_Hampshire" title="University of New Hampshire">University of New Hampshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Peterson_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peterson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1996 he became a trustee of the <a href="/wiki/University_System_of_New_Hampshire" title="University System of New Hampshire">University System of New Hampshire</a>. The University built a residence hall named SERC Hall B In 2007, on October 11, 2013, this hall was renamed to Peterson Hall in his honor.<sup id="cite_ref-UNH_student_residences_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNH_student_residences-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 2008 election cycle, Peterson served as honorary chairman of John McCain's campaign during the New Hampshire primary, and as Chairman of <i>Republicans for Lynch</i>, a group of Republicans supporting the re-election of Democratic governor <a href="/wiki/John_H._Lynch" class="mw-redirect" title="John H. Lynch">John Lynch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At age 86, his name emerged as a possible appointee to the United States Senate if <a href="/wiki/Judd_Gregg" title="Judd Gregg">Judd Gregg</a> accepted the offer to serve as Secretary of Commerce in the cabinet of President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gregg, however, subsequently withdrew his name from consideration after he was nominated. </p><p>Although supportive of a three percent income tax during his time as governor, Peterson later felt that a state income tax would only work in the short term. He was also supportive of those who supported abortion and gay rights.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_R._Peterson_Jr.&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 2011, Peterson (who was not a smoker) was diagnosed with lung cancer.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died on June 1.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_R._Peterson_Jr.&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Peterson-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Peterson_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Peterson_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Peterson_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRamer2011" class="citation news cs1">Ramer, Holly (June 2, 2011). 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