Allan Frank

Allan Frank earned a high school diploma from Saint Paul's School. He earned an associate degree from Daniel Webster College in 1982 and a bachelor's degree from Rivier College in 1985. His career experience includes working as a pilot.[1]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a 67-year-old retired airline pilot and have lived in New Hampshire since 1969 when my family moved to Pittsfield. I attended grade school there and in Concord, after which I went to Nashua for college.

Working full time at a defense electronics company in Nashua, I finished my bachelor's degree in business management by going to school at night. During that period, I was adding the flying licenses required to be a professional pilot by flying in the morning before work, in the evening after work and on weekends.

My wife and I have been married 32 years and have raised two sons together. Our older son is an Army veteran and owns a small machine shop in Merrimack, while our younger son is still serving in Army Special Operations and plans to make a career of the military.

While our boys were young and my wife and I were still working, we lived in Amherst NH. After the boys graduated high school and went into the military, we retired and moved to Gilford.

New Hampshire has always been home to us, even when moving away to airline crew bases out of the region would have been more convenient. The lakes region specifically feels like home because I learned to fly right here in Laconia and have been coming to the lake since I was a boy.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

I want to make sure that our public schools are not gutted financially by legislators in Concord that promote diverting money from the public school system through so-called "education freedom accounts" and open enrollment initiatives. These same representatives in Concord support limiting the amount of money per pupil that is required for an "adequate education" as defined by the New Hampshire supreme court in a 2025 decision.

The result of these actions is that our towns have been forced to make up the difference and raise property taxes to educate our kids. It's wrong and it has to stop.We need to stop the free state project from destroying community services.

In the early 2000's, New Hampshire was targeted by an outside group who call themselves the "Free State Project". Selecting NH for its conservative philosophy, these people moved here with the stated intent of infiltrating our town councils, school boards and state legislative bodies. After gaining political influence, they proceeded to attempt to enact an extreme form of Libertarianism that destabilizes our public schools and other community-based services through starvation of required funds.

Everybody wants efficient government and low taxes, but these people are not traditional conservatives.We need to protect health care for all of our citizens.

In 2026, Medicaid changes in New Hampshire have been introduced that add monthly costs (premiums), work requirements to stay in the program, added paperwork for the patient and increased drug copays. This has resulted in increased financial burdens on not only our most vulnerable citizens but also on our rural hospitals that depend on those funds to serve their communities.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I am passionate about preserving a public school system that was once vibrant and effective in preparing our children for the challenges that they face in adulthood. That system is now under threat of being starved to death.

I'm passionate about ensuring that every New Hampshire citizen has access to quality medical care, regardless of their financial status. I want to see our rural hospitals be able to survive and serve their communities.

Finally, I want to see centrist, responsible policy making in Concord that doesn't seek to destroy common sense public programs that serve the people of this state that I love.