Ted Gatsas

Theodore "Ted" Gatsas (born May 22, 1950) is an American politician of the Republican Party. Gatsas was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and was educated at Manchester Central. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a Bachelor of Science degree. He then started Staffing Network, a PEO with his brother Michael. Gatsas was elected alderman in the Manchester city council in 1999, and later elected to the New Hampshire Senate in 2000. He became President of the New Hampshire Senate in 2005 by cutting a deal mid-term with the minority Democrats to remove two term Republican Senate President Tom Eaton. He was elected Senate Minority Leader after the Democrats took control of the State Senate in 2006.

In May of 2006 Gatsas worked behind the scenes with Acting Senate Clerk, Tammy Wright, to oust Chip Gardner, son of New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, from the position of Acting Assistant Senate Clerk. With the election of a Democratic majority in November 2006, however, Gatsas and Wright were hoist on their own petard, as the Democratic majority itself replaced Wright's replacement for the younger Gardner, Ryan Phinney, with an even more partisan choice, Rob Buchholz, who formerly worked for the Senate Democratic Caucus PAC.

Teddy is also famous for his daily warm weather trips to Manchester fried-food heaven "Cremeland". Teddy is known to sit in his car on a warm Spring day waiting for Cremeland to open for the season and down mutiple helpings of family sized fried food orders.