Biography:

Judd A. Gregg was born in Nashua, N.H. and lives in Greenfield, N.H. He went to Phillips Exeter Academy and Columbia University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1969. He received a law degree from Boston University Law School in 1972, and a degree in tax law in 1975. His father, Hugh Gregg, was governor of New Hampshire in the 1950s.

Gregg served as a U.S. representative from 1980-89, governor from 1989-92 and was elected U.S. senator in 1992 to fill the seat vacated when Warren Rudman retired. Gregg was re-elected in 1998.

He and his wife, Kathleen, have two daughters and one son. In 2003, Kathleen Gregg escaped from kidnappers who abducted her from her northern Virginia home in a botched robbery.

Past Campaigns:

Judd Gregg was elected to the state's five-member Executive Council in 1978. In 1980, he ran for the 2nd District Congressional seat when James Cleveland retired. Gregg won easily, getting 64 percent of the vote. He was re-elected three times with vote totals of 71, 74 and 76 percent.

In 1988, he beat Democrat Paul McEachern with 60 percent of the vote to become governor _ a post his father, Hugh Gregg, held from 1953-55.

Gregg was elected to the Senate in 1992 with 48 percent of the vote, beating Democrat John Rauh, Libertarian Katherine Alexander, and independent Larry Brady.

Gregg was re-elected in 1998, defeating Democrat George Condodemetraky with 68 percent of the vote.

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