LESS THAN A year after her appointment to fill the unexpired term of John Coughlin, who is in Iraq with the National Guard, Hillsborough County Attorney Marguerite L. Wageling faces a challenge in the Republican primary from Paul J. Haley, of Hillsborough.

Wageling, who took office as county attorney on Jan. 14, had been an assistant attorney general. A Manchester native, she earned her law degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 1984, joined the Rockingham County Attorney’s office in 1985, and later that year, joined the Hillsborough County Attorney’s office, where she worked for 15 years. In 2000, she took a position at the Attorney General’s office, heading up the prosecution unit of the Antitrust and Consumer Division.

Haley, who moved to New Hampshire in 1982 and opened his law office in Hillsborough in 1988, has been a trial attorney for 26 years. Before moving to the state, he served for three years as city solicitor in Somerville, Mass.

In the only other contested county attorney’s race, one-term incumbent Merrimack County Attorney Dan St. Hilaire is opposed by Scott Jordan, who is currently deputy county attorney in Rockingham County.

St. Hilaire was elected in 2002 after serving as Concord police department prosecutor. He is a 1997 graduate of Boston University Law School. (St. Hilaire’s younger brother, Rick, was elected Grafton County Attorney in 2002.) St. Hilaire’s opponent is C. Scott Jordan, a former police officer who currently is an assistant county attorney for Rockingham and formerly worked in the Hillsborough county attorney’s office. Jordan is a 1998 graduate of the Northeastern University Law School and is the son of Chester Jordan, the longtime Merrimack County Sheriff.

In the other eight counties, the incumbents are unopposed in their primaries and face no general election opponent. All but two of the county attorneys are running as Republicans.

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