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1839 New Hampshire gubernatorial election New Hampshire Presidential no 1838 New Hampshire gubernatorial election 1838 1840 New Hampshire gubernatorial election 1840 March 12, 1839 file:John-Page-NH.jpg John Page Democratic Party (United States) 30,518 55.89% File:James Wilson (1797 1881) (New Hampshire Congressman).jpg 150x150px James Wilson II Whig Party (United States) 23,928 43.82% 1839 New Hampshire gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 245px County results Page: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584CDE 70–80%Wilson: #FE9929 60–70% Governor Isaac Hill Democratic Party (United States) John Page Democratic Party (United States)
The 1839 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 12, 1839. March 5, 1839 Elections https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022355/1839-03-05/ed-1/seq-3/ Rutland herald Rutland, Vt. 3 28 December 2021
Incumbent Democratic Governor Isaac Hill did not stand for re-election.
Democratic nominee John Page defeated Whig nominee James Wilson II with 55.89% of the vote.
Wilson was cross-endorsed on the Independent ticket sponsored by the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society and the abolitionist Herald of Freedom, which contributed 1,800 votes to his total.Sewell Richard H. Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837–1860 1976 Oxford University Press New York 58 75-25464 https://archive.org/details/ballotsforfreedo00seweBrooks Corey Michael Fall 2010 Building an Antislavery House: Political Abolitionists and the U.S. Congress https://escholarship.org/content/qt1b385471/qt1b385471.pdf PhD Berkeley, CA University of California Berkeley 35
General election
Candidates
John Page, Democratic, former U.S. Senator
James Wilson II, Whig, former Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, Whig nominee for Governor in 1838
Results
1839 New Hampshire gubernatorial electionGlashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 202–203 0-930466-17-9 Journal of the Honorable Senate, of the State of New Hampshire. At their Session holden at the Capitol in Concord, commencing Wednesday, June 5, 1839 https://books.google.com/books?id=9TkTAAAAYAAJ Concord Cyrus Barton, State Printer 12 1839 Lyon G. Parker The New-Hampshire Annual Register, and United States Calendar, for the year 1860 https://archive.org/details/newhampshireannu1860farm/page/43/mode/2up Concord G. Parker Lyon 43 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=166 Gubernatorial Vote of New Hampshire – 1784 to 1890 154Coolidge A. J. Mansfield J. B. 1860 History and Description of New England. New Hampshire https://books.google.com/books?id=HfOzuIgopTsC&pg=PA709 Boston Austin J. Coolidge 709 Wadleigh George 1913 Notable Events in the History of Dover, New Hampshire: from the first settlement in 1623 to 1865 https://archive.org/details/notableeventsinh00wadl/page/241/mode/1up Dover, N.H. The Tufts College Press 241 Some sources give slightly different results.https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=235789 NH Governor, 1839 Our Campaigns 28 December 2021Gubernatorial 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. 383 0-379-00665-0 Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County McFarland 2003 154 978-0-7864-1439-0 Jefferson, North Carolina The result given is taken from the New Hampshire Senate Journal.
Democratic Party (United States) John Page 30,518 55.89%
Whig Party (United States) James Wilson II 23,928 43.82%
Scattering 155 0.28%
6,590 12.07%
54,601
Democratic Party (United States)
Notes
References
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