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Jim Qualey

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ111913445
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Jim Qualey is an American state representative in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, for the Republican Party.

Political career

He was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2020 with 27% of the vote, with the campaign slogan "Live Free or Die". His seat represents Fitzwilliam and Rindge.

He sits on the Election Law Committee and has supported articles calling for more parental approval of educational material in local schools; in his area, such proposals were dismissed. He expressed an interest in bringing it back, and criticized the school district for not acknowledging it anyway.

Personal life

Qualey received his BA from Daniel Webster College and a PhD from Pennsylvania State University.

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This entry incorporates text from Jim Qualey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.