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1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election New Hampshire Presidential no 1807 New Hampshire gubernatorial election 1807 1809 New Hampshire gubernatorial election 1809 March 8, 1808 x100px John Langdon Democratic-Republican Party 12,641 79.51% x100px John Taylor Gilman Federalist Party (United States) 1,261 7.93% x100px Jeremiah Smith Federalist Party (United States) 839 5.28% 1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 150px County resultsLangdon: #217821 80–90% #165016 90–100% Governor John Langdon Democratic-Republican Party John Langdon Democratic-Republican Party
The 1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1808.
Incumbent Democratic-Republican Governor John Langdon won re-election to a fourth term.
General election
Major candidates
John Langdon, Democratic-Republican, incumbent Governor
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 1808 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 11 December 2021 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/h128nf082
Timothy Farrar, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Hillsborough County, former justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature 1849 The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, for the Year 1849 III https://books.google.com/books?id=UATv4fSk6xkC&pg=RA1-PA289 Boston Samuel G. Drake 289 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=FJJJAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA39 Andover William H. Wardwell 28
John Taylor Gilman, Federalist, former Governor
William Hale, Federalist, former member of the Executive Council of New HampshireScales John 1914 History of Strafford County New Hampshire and Representative Citizens https://archive.org/details/cu31924028812753/page/n585 Chicago, Ill. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. 574
Oliver Peabody, Federalist, former President of the New Hampshire SenateOpal J. M. Winter 2000 The Politics of "Industry": Federalism in Concord and Exeter, New Hampshire, 1790-1805 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3125010 Journal of the Early Republic 20 4 University of Pennsylvania Press 637–671 10.2307/3125010 3125010 11 December 2021 subscription
Jeremiah Smith, Federalist, Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature
Results
1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial electionGubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 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. 380 0-379-00665-0 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=i_5BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA10 Concord George Hough 10 1808 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 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433010041832&view=1up&seq=13&skin=2021 Concord George Hough 7 1808 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=163 Gubernatorial Vote of New Hampshire – 1784 to 1890 151Coolidge 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 results. The result given is taken from the New Hampshire Senate Journal.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=235664 NH Governor, 1808 Our Campaigns 11 December 2021Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 200–201 0-930466-17-9
Democratic-Republican Party John Langdon (incumbent) 12,641 79.51%
Federalist Party (United States) John Taylor Gilman 1,261 7.93%
Federalist Party (United States) Jeremiah Smith 839 5.28%
Federalist Party (United States) Oliver Peabody 405 2.55%
Federalist Party (United States) Timothy Farrar 398 2.50%
Scattering 355 2.23%
11,380 71.58%
15,899
Democratic-Republican Party
Notes
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