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1817 New Hampshire gubernatorial election New Hampshire Presidential no 1816 New Hampshire gubernatorial election 1816 1818 New Hampshire gubernatorial election 1818 March 11, 1817 File:William Plumer.jpg William Plumer Democratic-Republican Party 19,088 53.96% File:JamesSheafe.jpg James Sheafe Federalist Party (United States) 12,029 34.00% File:Gilbert Stuart - Jeremiah Mason(page 45 crop).jpg 150x150px Jeremiah Mason Federalist Party (United States) 3,607 10.20% 1817 New Hampshire gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 150px County resultsPlumer: #73D873 50–60% #42CA42 60–70% Sheafe: #DFC27D 50–60%Mason: #FFB2B2 40–50% Governor William Plumer Democratic-Republican Party William Plumer Democratic-Republican Party
The 1817 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 11, 1817.
Incumbent Democratic-Republican Governor William Plumer defeated Federalist nominees James Sheafe and Jeremiah Mason.
General election
Major candidates
William Plumer, Democratic-Republican, incumbent Governor
James Sheafe, Federalist, former U.S. Senator, Federalist nominee for Governor in 1816
Minor candidates
The following candidates may not have been formally nominated and attracted only scattering votes. Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives New Hampshire 1817 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 12 December 2021 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/9306t0616
Josiah Bartlett Jr., Democratic-Republican, former U.S. Representative
Jeremiah Mason, Federalist, incumbent U.S. Senator
Results
1817 New Hampshire gubernatorial electionGlashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 200–201 0-930466-17-9Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 1998 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 66 1-56802-396-0 Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 381 0-379-00665-0 Journal of the Honorable Senate, of the State of New-Hampshire, at their Session, begun and holden at Concord, on the first Wednesday of June, 1817 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 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112110155154&view=1up&seq=14&skin=2021 Concord Isaac Hill 10 1817 Farmer James The New Hampshire Annual Register and United States Calendar, 1833 1772 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxkwqy&view=1up&seq=28 Concord Marsh, Capen and Lyon 18 Carter Hosea B. The New Hampshire Manual for the General Court 1680–1891 1891 Office of the Secretary of State Concord https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101073361493&view=image&seq=164 Gubernatorial Vote of New Hampshire – 1784 to 1890 152Coolidge A. J. Mansfield J. B. 1860 History and Description of New England. New Hampshire https://books.google.com/books?id=HfOzuIgopTsC&pg=PA708 Boston Austin J. Coolidge 708 Some sources give slightly different votes for Bartlett and Mason. The result given is taken from the New Hampshire Senate Journal.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=235766 NH Governor, 1817 Our Campaigns 12 December 2021
Democratic-Republican Party William Plumer (incumbent) 19,088 53.96%
Federalist Party (United States) James Sheafe 12,029 34.00%
Federalist Party (United States) Jeremiah Mason 3,607 10.20%
Democratic-Republican Party Josiah Bartlett Jr. 539 1.52%
Scattering 112 0.32%
7,059 19.95%
35,375
Democratic-Republican Party
Notes
References
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