Frank Edelblut | |
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Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education | |
Assumed office February 15, 2017 |
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Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Hillsborough District 38 | |
In office December 2014 – December 2016 |
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Personal details | |
Born | Pennsylvania |
Political party | Republican |
Alma mater |
University of Rhode Island (Bachelor of Science, Business, 1983) Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Masters of Theological Studies, 2015) |
Website | frankedelblut |
Frank Edelblut is an American businessman and politician who is the Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education. Edelblut formerly served as a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. During his term in the House, Edelblut represented the people of Hillsborough County District 38, which includes the towns of Antrim, Bennington, Francestown, Greenville, Greenfield, Hancock, Hillsborough, Lyndeborough, Wilton and Windsor. He served on the New Hampshire House of Representatives' Finance Committee, Special Committee on Pensions and the Child and Family Law Committee. He was a Republican candidate for Governor of New Hampshire in 2016.
Edelblut attended the University of Rhode Island where he earned a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration – Accounting in 1983. Edelblut also holds a Masters of Theological Studies from the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, 2015.
Edelblut started his career as an auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in South Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach) where he worked as a Certified Public Accountant auditing a variety of businesses. He then briefly worked as the CFO for one of his PwC clients, Niagara Corp., before launching a business of his own, Control Solutions. Control Solutions was sold to Altran. Edelblut left Control Solutions/Altran in 2009, and joined a Boston-based angel investment group called Common Angels (now Converge Venture Partners). In 2013, he left Common Angels and now does early-stage investing on his own.