About Dan Innis

Daniel E. Innis, is a businessperson, a Professor of Marketing and Hospitality Management at the University of New Hampshire, State Senator from District 7, and owner of Trails End Acres (formerly Battles Farms) in Bradford, NH. He is the former Dean of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, a position he held from 2007 to late 2013, and he has owned and operated two inns and a hotel (The Hotel Portsmouth).

Dan was the driving force behind the new Peter T. Paul College building, a $50 million project that resulted in a state-of-the-art business building at the University of New Hampshire—the first academic building constructed at UNH with no direct state capital support. The building opened in March 2013.

A lifelong conservative Republican, Dan served previously as a NH State Senator from District 24 (his former home near the University of New Hampshire campus).

Despite his successful career as a business professor and small business owner, Dan always sought to return to his family’s heritage of local farming. He purchased the former Battles Farm and renamed it Trail’s End, an homage to his great-grandfather’s farm, and moved to Bradford.

The 18-month restoration project is complete. A new farmhouse has been built and the 1800-era barn, which includes two King’s Pine beams from Bradford, has not only been stabilized, but fully restored. 

Today, Trail’s End farm has over 400 chickens, a 23 head of Wagyu cattle, 16 goats, and three Great Pyrenees who watch over everyone. The farm is 100% organic and there are no antibiotics or steroids used at all.

Following the shutdowns of the pandemic and the economic crisis being caused by the Biden Administration’s failed policies, Dan decided to once again run for the NH State Senate in District 7 to focus on improving our economic climate and helping to grow good-paying jobs in rural New Hampshire, to protect our constitutional freedoms, to preserve our New Hampshire traditions and keeping our taxes low.  His first full session was a success, and he was instrumental in introducing bills to strengthen the New Hampshire economy, ease regulation, and promote more affordable housing.  Dan is the chair of the Capital Budget Committee, Vice Chair of Finance, and he serves on the Commerce Committee and Ways and Means.  He was a big part of the crafting the current state budget, which passed the Senate on a 24-0 vote.

Dan resides in Bradford and has three children, all of whom are UNH graduates.  His eldest son, Ben, and his wife, Emma, welcomed Dan’s first grandchild to the world in July.

District 7 includes the towns of Alexandria, Andover, Boscawen, Bradford, Bridgewater, Bristol, Danbury, Franklin, Goshen, Grafton, Hebron, Henniker, Hill, Hillsborough, Newbury, Orange, Salisbury, Sutton, Tilton, Warner, Webster, and Wilmot.