Dartmouth College, B.A., 1967
Georgetown University, J.D., 1971

The founder of the Firm, Tom Rath, is a former Attorney General of New Hampshire and has been actively involved in government relations since entering private practice in 1980.

Tom served as a senior advisor in New Hampshire to the successful campaign of President George W. Bush. He was appointed by the president's father, President George H. W. Bush to be a director of the Legal Services Corporation.

Tom served as the Chairman of the election campaigns of New Hampshire’s former senior U.S. Senator, Warren Rudman, and its current junior U.S. Senator, Judd Gregg. Tom has served as a senior national advisor to the presidential campaigns of Howard Baker, Robert Dole and Lamar Alexander. He has been a delegate to the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.

Tom is widely respected as a political analyst of presidential campaigns, both at the state level and at the national level. He appears regularly on national, regional and state television newsmaker programs. He has been the Republican party national committeeman for New Hampshire. Tom is a member of the Advisory Commission for the state’s Archives & Political Library.

He actively assisted in the U.S. Senate process that confirmed David Souter as Supreme Court Justice. In recent years, Tom has directed the public and government relations efforts for our client, Northeast Utilities, in its successful acquisition of Public Service Company of New Hampshire. Tom has also represented insurance and banking clients before the respective New Hampshire regulatory commissions.

Tom served as chairman and a member of the Board of Trustees of Daniel Webster College; he was a member of the Board of Visitors of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College, a member of the Dartmouth Medical School Board of Overseers and a member of the Dartmouth College Committee on Trustees.

Convinced that New Hampshire is a great place in which to live, work and play, Tom has been actively involved in youth athletics and in other local community and state programs. He has been director of the Concord Chamber of Commerce, the N.H. Business and Industry Association, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the New England Council. He orchestrated the return of professional minor league baseball to Concord, in both 1995 and 1997, weekend events that attracted thousands of spectators.

Contact at tdr@rathlaw.com

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