CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Candidates who next week start signing up for the New Hampshire primary can do so at the desk of the man who started it all a century ago.
In 1913, Rep. Stephen Bullock traveled by horse and buggy from his Richmond farm to Concord to propose a bill creating the primary. The Legislature passed it that spring, and after some tweaking of the law two years later the first presidential primary was a held in March 1916.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Candidates who next week start signing up for the New Hampshire primary can do so at the desk of the man who started it all a century ago.
In 1913, Rep. Stephen Bullock traveled by horse and buggy from his Richmond farm to Concord to propose a bill creating the primary. The Legislature passed it that spring, and after some tweaking of the law two years later the first presidential primary was a held in March 1916.…
