Louis C. Wyman

Louis Crosby Wyman (March 16, 1917 – May 5, 2002) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a United States representative and a U.S. senator from New Hampshire. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Early life and career Louis Crosby Wyman was born on March 16, 1917, in Manchester, New Hampshire, the son of Alice Sibley (Crosby) and Louis Eliot Wyman. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire at Durham in 1938 and from Harvard Law School in 1941. He was admitted to the bars of Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1941, and of Florida in 1957, and commenced the practice of law in Boston, Massachusetts,

During World War II, Wyman served in the Alaskan Theater as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1946. He also served as general counsel to a U.S. Senate committee in 1946; secretary to Senator Styles Bridges in 1947; counsel to the Joint Congressional Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation from 1948 to 1949; attorney general of New Hampshire from 1953 to 1961; president of the National Association of Attorneys General in 1957; and as legislative counsel to the governor of New Hampshire in 1961; member and chairman of several state legal and judicial commissions. His attempts to investigate alleged communists as attorney general lead to the Supreme Court case Sweezy v. New Hampshire, which ruled against the state and Wyman on due process grounds.

House of Representatives Wyman was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House from in 1962. He was swept out in the Democratic landslide of 1964, but regained his seat in 1966 and was reelected three more times.

Wyman was behind an amendment to 1964 automobile safety legislation which prohibited a "seat belt interlock system" in automobiles. The interlock system prevented automobiles from starting unless the driver was wearing a seatbelt.

Durkin demanded a recount, which resulted in Durkin winning by ten votes. He was a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire and West Palm Beach, Florida, until his death due to cancer on May 5, 2002. Wyman's remains were cremated, and the ashes scattered at sea.