Compiled by Russell Bastedo
NH State Curator
1998/1999

Hilda Constance Frederika Brungot (1886 - 1982)
Born and died at Berlin (NH).
Businesswoman and state legislator.
Portrait by Willy Fromm, 1978.
Presented to the State by friends, 1978.

Hilda Brungot was educated at Berlin (NH) schools. As a housewife and the mother of six children, she organized the Berlin --Milan Milk Dealers (1931). She served nineteen terms in the State House of Representatives (1931/37, 1941/75), and was a member of the state's Constitutional Conventions in 1930, 1938, 1948 and 1956. In 1959 Mrs. Brungot was recognized as the dean of women legislators at both the state and national levels.

Brungot was active as the New England Vice-President for the Scandinavian Fraternity of America (1935/40), and she served during World War II as secretary for the Women's Auxiliaries of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.

When she was defeated at the polls in the 1974 elections, Hilda Brungot's career as a state legislator came to an end. Her portrait was arranged for in 1977, when the Forty-Three Club (founded 1943) disbanded and put its remaining funds into a campaign to honor Mrs. Brungot with a portrait at the State House. The necessary funds were raised in a statewide drive, and the portrait was unveiled with Mrs. Brungot in attendance at a 1978 ceremony at the State house.

References: New Hampshire Notables (1955); The Brown Book (1935); Leon Anderson, To This Day (1981).