Margaret Drye is an American politician who serves as a Republican member for the Sullivan 7th district of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. She assumed office on December 7, 2022, and her current term ends on December 4, 2024.
Margaret Drye lives in Plainfield, New Hampshire, where she and her husband Rob have raised and home-schooled their nine children. Both Margaret and Rob have been volunteer EMTs with the local rescue squad for over four decades. Margaret served 13 years on the board of the Hanover Co-op Food Stores and was a long-time 4-H Club leader.
She graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College, earning a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1980. She is a member of the Leadership New Hampshire graduating class of 1996, as well as a graduate and former board member of the Vesta Roy Excellence in Public Service Series. She contributes as a field editor for Taste of Home Magazine and as a columnist to the Valley News.
Her career experience includes working as a volunteer EMT and home-schooling her children. Drye served as a member and chairman of the Plainfield Finance Committee and was the clerk of the Plainfield Village Water District.
In the general election on November 8, 2022, Margaret Drye won the seat for the New Hampshire House of Representatives Sullivan 7, defeating Jason Bourne. She had previously run for election to the New Hampshire House of Representatives to represent Sullivan 9 in 2018 but was defeated in the general election on November 6, 2018. She was also a 2017 Republican candidate in the special election for Sullivan 1.
