Ruth Larson was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in nearby Maryland. She attended Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, graduating in 1971. After working for a couple of years, she then went to law school, graduating from Rutgers Camden Law School in 1975 with High Honors.
After clerking for a judge for a year, Ruth then went to work at the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, where she handled civil litigation, defending state employees (including police officers) and state agencies in state and federal court. During the rest of her legal career, she ran an insurance company law office in New Jersey, handling negligence and other types of claims in civil court. The cases that did not settle generally went to jury trials.
Since the age of 4, Ruth has been coming to New Hampshire to be with family at an old farmhouse in Alton owned by her late grandfather. Upon her retirement in 2009, Ruth and her husband (Hunter Taylor) moved to New Hampshire full time and built a house on land previously owned by Ruth’s mother.
Over the years, Ruth’s work has shed light on extremism in New Hampshire while remaining focused on the real-world issues that affect granite staters. Ruth continues to fight for common sense legislation that preserves people's freedoms across the board while working to build a resilient, healthy New Hampshire.
After spending a year or two enjoying retirement, traveling around New Hampshire, hiking, kayaking, and gardening, Ruth began to immerse herself in local and state issues. Her involvement started with writing letters to area newspapers, then expanded to include attendance at county and state meetings, testifying before the state legislature, and finally, running for office.
Ruth’s activism has served an educational purpose, bringing out into the open some of the extremism found in Belknap County and New Hampshire. Her efforts have exposed some of the worst excesses of the FreeStater agenda, as well as incidents of racism and bigotry plaguing our community.
Meanwhile, Ruth has also been a consistent supporter of community-based projects and efforts to improve our local schools and the environment.