In a skillful display of his cloakroom style, New Hampshire’s Styles Bridges, 60, last week bolstered his position, held since Ohio’s Robert Taft died in 1953, as the behind-the-scenes leader of ...

WOLFEBORO — John F. Bridges, 79, son of the late former Gov. and U.S. Sen. H. Styles Bridges, loved and followed in his father’s tradition of serving the state, said Gov. John Lynch. Following Bridges ...

Born in 1933 in Syracuse, N.Y., to John and Sara Kiepper, he grew up on a Hopkinton dairy farm and graduated from Hopkinton High School in 1951. He studied theology but transferred to New England ...