1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election

1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election

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Nominee Levi Woodbury Samuel Dinsmoor Party Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Popular vote 16,985 12,718 Percentage 56.72% 42.47%

County results Woodbury:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80% Dinsmoor:     50–60%     60–70%

Governor before election Samuel Bell Democratic-Republican Elected Governor Levi Woodbury Democratic-Republican

The 1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 11, 1823.

Incumbent Democratic-Republican Governor Samuel Bell did not run for re-election to a fifth term in office.

Levi Woodbury defeated Samuel Dinsmoor with 56.72% of the vote.

Democratic-Republican nomination

Candidates

• William Badger, High Sheriff of Strafford County, former President of the New Hampshire Senate
• Ezra Bartlett, unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Representative in 1800 and 1804
• Josiah Butler, incumbent U.S. Representative
• Samuel Dinsmoor, former U.S. Representative
• Jonathan Harvey, President of the New Hampshire Senate
• Arthur Livermore, former U.S. Representative
• David L. Morril, incumbent U.S. Senator
• William Pickering, incumbent Treasurer of New Hampshire

Results

The Democratic-Republican caucus met at Concord on June 21, 1822. ^[1]

The results of the balloting were as follows: ^{[2] [3] [4]}

	Gubernatorial Ballot
	1st	2nd
Samuel Dinsmoor	72	92
Arthur Livermore	29	27
Jonathan Harvey	27	27
David L. Morril	18	7
William Pickering	8	0
Ezra Bartlett	5	1
William Badger	1	0
Josiah Butler	1	0

General election

Candidates

• Samuel Dinsmoor, former U.S. Representative
• Levi Woodbury, Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature

Some 20th Century sources record Woodbury as an Independent Republican. Woodbury stood at the invitation of a convention of Portsmouth Republicans. ^{[5] [6]} Contemporary sources record both candidates as Republicans; Dinsmoor as a supporter of William H. Crawford for the U.S. Presidency, and Woodbury a supporter of John Quincy Adams. ^{[7] [8] [9]} (However, Woodbury would be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1825 as a Jacksonian)

Results

1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election ^{[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [lower-alpha 1]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic-Republican	Levi Woodbury	16,985	56.72%
	Democratic-Republican	Samuel Dinsmoor	12,718	42.47%
	Scattering		240	0.80%
Majority			4,267	14.25%
Turnout			29,943
	Democratic-Republican hold		Swing

References

1. Cole 1970, p. 47.
2. "New Hampshire 1822 Governor, Nomination for 1823". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University . Retrieved December 3, 2021.
3. "New Hampshire 1822 Governor, Nomination for 1823, Ballot 2". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University . Retrieved December 3, 2021.
4. "New-Hampshire". The Portland gazette. Portland, Me. July 2, 1822. p. 2. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
5. Cole 1970, p. 49.
6. "Savannah: Friday Morning, Feb. 14, 1823". Savannah Georgian. Savannah, Ga. February 15, 1823. p. 1. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
7. "Domestic". The Portland gazette. Portland, Me. February 11, 1823. p. 1. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
8. "The election of State Officers". Savannah Georgian. Savannah, Ga. March 22, 1823. p. 1. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
9. "The election for Governor in New Hampshire". The Georgia journal. Milledgeville, Ga. April 8, 1823. p. 3. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
10. Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. p. 66. ISBN   1-56802-396-0.
11. Kallenbach, Joseph E.; Kallenbach, Jessamine S., eds. (1977). American State Governors, 1776-1976. Vol. I. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, Inc. p. 381. ISBN   0-379-00665-0.
12. "Journal of the Senate, of the State of New-Hampshire, at their Session, holden at the Capitol in Concord, commencing on the first Wednesday of June, 1823". Journals of the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire at Their Session, Holden at the Capitol in Concord Commencing. Concord: Jacob B. Moore: 10. 1823.
13. Farmer, James (1772). The New Hampshire Annual Register and United States Calendar, 1833. Concord: Marsh, Capen and Lyon. p. 19.
14. 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. 152.
15. Coolidge, A. J.; Mansfield, J. B. (1860). History and Description of New England. New Hampshire. Boston: Austin J. Coolidge. p. 708.
16. "NH Governor, 1823". Our Campaigns. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
17. Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 200–201. ISBN   0-930466-17-9.

Notes

1. Some sources give slightly different results. The result given is taken from the New Hampshire Senate Journal. ^{[16] [17]}

Bibliography

• Cole, Donald B. (1970). Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN   0-674-46990-9.