“Republican Dick Hinch, a longtime New Hampshire state representative, who was just elected Speaker of the House last week, unexpectedly died Wednesday at 71. ‘He was a loving husband, father, family man, and veteran who devoted his life to public service,’ his office said in a statement announcing his death. The statement did not give a cause of death” the Boston Globe reported Wednesday. On Thursday afternoon Boston Globe political reporter James Pindell tweeted “The newly elected New Hampshire House Speaker died yesterday of COVID, an autopsy by the state’s chief medical examiner just revealed”