predecessor successor death_date birth_place party office birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name
lane dwinell john w. king 6 january 1981 portsmouth , new hampshire republican governor of new hampshire october 13 , 1915 70th january 1 , 1959 gwpowell.jpg wesley powell
 january 3 , 1963 wesley powell
wesley powell

wesley powell -lrb- october 13 , 1915 -- january 6 , 1981 -rrb- was an american lawyer and republican politician from hampton falls , new hampshire .
powell was born in portsmouth , new hampshire .
he attended schools in portsmouth before graduating from the university of new hampshire .
he received his law degree from the southern methodist college of law in 1940 .
he served in the u.s. army air corps in world war ii and practiced law in manchester before his two terms as governor of new hampshire from 1959 to 1963 .
he lost renomination in 1962 .
