1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election

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1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
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  1807 March 8, 1808 1809  
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Nominee John Langdon John Taylor Gilman Jeremiah Smith
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist Federalist
Popular vote12,6411,261839
Percentage79.51%7.93%5.28%

1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
County results
Langdon:     80-90%     90-100%

Governor before election

John Langdon
Democratic-Republican

Elected Governor

John Langdon
Democratic-Republican

The 1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1808.

Contents

Incumbent Democratic-Republican Governor John Langdon won re-election to a fourth term.

General election

Major candidates

Minor candidates

The following candidates may not have been formally nominated and attracted only scattering votes. [1]

Results

1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [a]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic-Republican John Langdon (incumbent) 12,641 79.51%
Federalist John Taylor Gilman 1,2617.93%
Federalist Jeremiah Smith 8395.28%
Federalist Oliver Peabody4052.55%
Federalist Timothy Farrar3982.50%
Scattering3552.23%
Majority 11,38071.58%
Turnout 15,899
Democratic-Republican hold Swing

Notes

  1. Some sources give slightly different results. The result given is taken from the New Hampshire Senate Journal. [13] [14]

References

  1. "New Hampshire 1808 Governor". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University . Retrieved December 11, 2021.
  2. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, for the Year 1849. Vol. III. Boston: Samuel G. Drake. 1849. p. 289.
  3. Clary, Timothy Farrar (1847). Honorable Old Age. A Discourse Occasioned by the Centennial Anniversary of Hon. Timothy Farrar, LL. D. Delivered at Hollis, N. H., July 11, 1847. Andover: William H. Wardwell. p. 28.
  4. Scales, John (1914). History of Strafford County New Hampshire and Representative Citizens. Chicago, Ill.: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. p. 574.
  5. Opal, J. M. (Winter 2000). "The Politics of "Industry": Federalism in Concord and Exeter, New Hampshire, 1790-1805" . Journal of the Early Republic. 20 (4). University of Pennsylvania Press: 637–671. doi:10.2307/3125010. JSTOR   3125010 . Retrieved December 11, 2021.
  6. Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. p. 66. ISBN   1-56802-396-0.
  7. Kallenbach, Joseph E.; Kallenbach, Jessamine S., eds. (1977). American State Governors, 1776-1976. Vol. I. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, Inc. p. 380. ISBN   0-379-00665-0.
  8. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire, at their Session, begun and holden at Concord, on the first Wednesday of June, 1808. Concord: George Hough. 1808. p. 10.
  9. Journal of the Proceedings of the Honorable Senate of the State of New-Hampshire, at their Session, begun and holden at Concord, on the first Wednesday of June, 1808. Concord: George Hough. 1808. p. 7.
  10. Farmer, James (1772). The New Hampshire Annual Register and United States Calendar, 1833. Concord: Marsh, Capen and Lyon. p. 18.
  11. Carter, Hosea B., ed. (1891). "Gubernatorial Vote of New Hampshire – 1784 to 1890". The New Hampshire Manual for the General Court 1680–1891. Concord: Office of the Secretary of State. p. 151.
  12. Coolidge, A. J.; Mansfield, J. B. (1860). History and Description of New England. New Hampshire. Boston: Austin J. Coolidge. p. 708.
  13. "NH Governor, 1808". Our Campaigns. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
  14. Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 200–201. ISBN   0-930466-17-9.