singer, and songwriter. Member of The Connection, The Kurt Baker band, and The Queers Tom Rush (born 1941), singer-songwriter Bill Staines (born 1947), folk musician Joseph P King also known by the stage Joe Queer. Lead singer and guitarist of the punk rock band The Queers. Politics Amos T. Akerman (1821–1880), US attorney general Ichabod Bartlett (1786–1853), US congressman Clifton Clagett (1762–1829), US congressman Renny Cushing (1962–2022), New Hampshire state represenntative Samuel Cushman (1783–1851), US congressman John Cutt (1613–1681), merchant, mill owner, and provincial president of New Hampshire Charles Cutts (1769–1846), US senator Charles M. Dale (1893–1978), mayor, state senator, and the 66th governor of New Hampshire William S. Damrell (1809–1860), US congressman John A. Durkin (1936–2012), US senator Eileen Foley (1918–2016), eight-term mayor of Portsmouth (1968–1971, 1984–1985, 1988–1997), state senator, and former minority leader of the New Hampshire Senate Ichabod Goodwin (1794–1882), 34th governor of New Hampshire William Hale (1765–1848), US congressman Nathaniel Appleton Haven (1762–1831), US congressman Andrew Jarvis (1890–1990), mayor and member of the Governor's Council Frank Jones (1832–1902), businessman, US congressman, mayor John Langdon (1741–1819), Founding Father of the United States, merchant, President pro tempore of the US senate, and the governor of New Hampshire (2nd, 4th, 8th & 10th) Woodbury Langdon (1739–1805), Founding Father, merchant, statesman, judge; Delegate from New Hampshire to the Continental Congress Tobias Lear (1762–1816), personal secretary to President George Washington; Lear served Washington from 1784 until the former-President's death in 1799 Edward St. Loe Livermore (1762–1832), US congressman Pierse Long (1739–1789), colonel of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, merchant, US senator Henry B. Lovering (1841–1911), US congressman Daniel Marcy (1809–1893), US congressman Richard Martyn (1630–1694), early Portsmouth representative, speaker of the house, chief justice John Fabyan Parrott (1767–1836), US congressman and senator Charles H. Peaslee (1804–1866), US congressman and lawyer Joseph Peirce (1748–1812), US congressman and soldier John J. Perry (1811–1897), US congressman Wesley Powell (1915–1981), lawyer and 70th Governor of New Hampshire John Randall Reding (1805–1892), US congressman James Sheafe (1755–1829), US congressman and senator James R. Splaine (born 1947), New Hampshire state legislator, Portsmouth vice-mayor Clement Storer (1760–1830), US congressman, senator Daniel Webster (1782–1852), US senator from Massachusetts and the 14th and 19th US Secretary of State Benning Wentworth (1696–1770), colonial governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766 Sir John Wentworth (1737–1820), the British colonial governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution;