Ed Dupont is a New Hampshire businessman, five-term New Hampshire state senator, former New Hampshire State Senate President, and President of the Dupont Group, one of New Hampshire's most powerful lobbying firms. He served on the University of New Hampshire Board of Trustees for a decade, the last four years as Chair, and served on the New Hampshire Commission on State Government Innovation, Efficiency, and Transparency.
As a young man, he dropped out of the University of New Hampshire after his third year and began to run a gas station, buying his first fuel delivery truck just before the 1973 oil crisis, and founding Strafford Fuels. He ran for the legislature for the first time in 1983 and went into lobbying after losing his seat to Steve Merrill.