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1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election New Hampshire Presidential no 1822 New Hampshire gubernatorial election 1822 1824 New Hampshire gubernatorial election 1824 March 11, 1823 File:Levi Woodbury.jpg Levi Woodbury Democratic-Republican Party 16,985 56.72% File:Samuel Dinsmoor Sr..jpg 150x150px Samuel Dinsmoor Democratic-Republican Party (United States) 12,718 42.47% 1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 150px County resultsWoodbury: #E27F7F 50–60% #D75D5D 60–70% #D72F30 70–80%Dinsmoor: #7996E2 50–60% #6674DE 60–70% Governor Samuel Bell Democratic-Republican Party Levi Woodbury Democratic-Republican Party
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.Cole 1970 47
The results of the balloting were as follows: Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives New Hampshire 1822 Governor, Nomination for 1823 A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 3 December 2021 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/c247dt458 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives New Hampshire 1822 Governor, Nomination for 1823, Ballot 2 A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 3 December 2021 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/6d56zz09g July 2, 1822 New-Hampshire https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016083/1822-07-02/ed-1/seq-2/ The Portland gazette Portland, Me. 2 3 December 2021
Gubernatorial Ballot1st 2ndSamuel Dinsmoor 7292Arthur Livermore2927Jonathan Harvey 2727David L. Morril187William Pickering80Ezra Bartlett51William Badger10Josiah Butler10
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.Cole 1970 49 February 15, 1823 Savannah: Friday Morning, Feb. 14, 1823 https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn86053122/1823-02-15/ed-1/seq-1/ Savannah Georgian Savannah, Ga. 1 3 December 2021 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. February 11, 1823 Domestic https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016083/1823-02-11/ed-1/seq-1/ The Portland gazette Portland, Me. 1 3 December 2021 March 22, 1823 The election of State Officers https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn86053122/1823-03-22/ed-1/seq-1/ Savannah Georgian Savannah, Ga. 1 3 December 2021 April 8, 1823 The election for Governor in New Hampshire https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014251/1823-04-08/ed-1/seq-3/ The Georgia journal Milledgeville, Ga. 3 3 December 2021 (However, Woodbury would be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1825 as a Jacksonian)
Results
1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial electionGubernatorial 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 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 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112110155246&view=1up&seq=16&skin=2021 Concord Jacob B. Moore 10 1823 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=29 Concord Marsh, Capen and Lyon 19 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 results. The result given is taken from the New Hampshire Senate Journal.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=235772 NH Governor, 1823 Our Campaigns 3 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 Levi Woodbury 16,985 56.72%
Democratic-Republican Party Samuel Dinsmoor 12,718 42.47%
Scattering 240 0.80%
4,267 14.25%
29,943
Democratic-Republican Party
References
Notes
Bibliography
Cole Donald B. Donald B. Cole 1970 Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851 https://archive.org/details/jacksoniandemocr0000cole/mode/2up?view=theater Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 0-674-46990-9
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