Alphonse Roy (October 26, 1897 – October 5, 1967) was a U.S. Representative from

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. Born in Saint-Simon,

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, Roy moved to

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, in 1901. He attended the parochial schools, then engaged in the

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business. Roy served as

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for the city of Manchester, 1925–1931, and served as member of the

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, 1925–1931. He served on the

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, 1933–1937. He successfully contested as a Democrat the election of

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to the Seventy-fifth Congress and served from June 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939. Roy was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the

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and for election in 1940 to the

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. Roy was appointed sealer of weights and measures of Manchester in 1943 and served until his resignation in 1945. He ran unsuccessfully in the 1953 Manchester mayoral election. He was United States marshal for the district of New Hampshire, 1945–1953. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1958 to the

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and an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for the

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in 1960. He engaged in the real estate business until his death in Manchester, October 5, 1967. He was interred in Mount Calvary Cemetery.

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