Politics & Government

Candidate Bio: Peter Hansen, Republican For State Rep

Meet your local candidates for state office in the 2012 Primary Election.

Amherst Patch has sent a candidate bio to all people running for state representative and state senate to tell Patch readers a little about themselves and why they are running for office. Bios will be posted as they are received and will feed into our Election 2012 topic page which can be found under the "News" tab above.

Peter Hansen, Republican

Running for state representative

Date of birth: 1943

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Your background/education: BS and MBA from Rivier College

Experience/Occupation: VP Sales & Marketing Fortune 500 Division. Small business owner for 8 years. Veteran USN Viet Nam Era.

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Prior elected office: NH House 2010 -2012

Personal:  Retired lived in Amherst 65 years. Married to Patricia, 2 adult children, Ryan a local business owner and Dr. Karyn Hansen.

Priorities:  Balanced budget, prevent new taxes, maintain the NH Advantage, grow the states economic base and preserve NH's Best Place to live status.

Why are you running?: To continue the successes accomplished by this last legislature and insure NH has the tools it needs to remain the #1 place to live in the US. To increase the efficiency of the state's services and to increase further the openess of state government.


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