1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election

The 1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 8, 1808.

1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election

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Nominee John Langdon John Taylor Gilman Jeremiah Smith Party Democratic-Republican Federalist Federalist Popular vote 12,641 1,261 839 Percentage 79.51% 7.93% 5.28%

Governor before election John Langdon Democratic-Republican Elected Governor John Langdon Democratic-Republican

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.^[1]

• Timothy Farrar, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Hillsborough County, former justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature^[2][3]
• John Taylor Gilman, Federalist, former Governor
• William Hale, Federalist, former member of the Executive Council of New Hampshire^[4]
• Oliver Peabody, Federalist, former President of the New Hampshire Senate^[5]
• Jeremiah Smith, Federalist, Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature

Results

1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][a]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic-Republican	John Langdon (incumbent)	12,641	79.51%
	Federalist	John Taylor Gilman	1,261	7.93%
	Federalist	Jeremiah Smith	839	5.28%
	Federalist	Oliver Peabody	405	2.55%
	Federalist	Timothy Farrar	398	2.50%
	Scattering		355	2.23%
Majority			11,380	71.58%
Turnout			15,899
	Democratic-Republican hold		Swing

Notes

1. Some sources give slightly different results. The result given is taken from the New Hampshire Senate Journal.^[13][14]

References

1. "New Hampshire 1808 Governor". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
2. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, for the Year 1849. Vol. III. Boston: Samuel G. Drake. 1849. p. 289.
3. 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. Andover: William H. Wardwell. p. 28.
4. Scales, John (1914). History of Strafford County New Hampshire and Representative Citizens. Chicago, Ill.: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. p. 574.
5. Opal, J. M. (Winter 2000). "The Politics of "Industry": Federalism in Concord and Exeter, New Hampshire, 1790-1805". Journal of the Early Republic. University of Pennsylvania Press. 20 (4): 637–671. doi:10.2307/3125010. JSTOR 3125010. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
6. Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. p. 66. ISBN 1-56802-396-0.
7. Kallenbach, Joseph E.; Kallenbach, Jessamine S., eds. (1977). American State Governors, 1776-1976. Vol. I. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, Inc. p. 380. ISBN 0-379-00665-0.
8. 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. Concord: George Hough. 1808. p. 10.
9. 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. Concord: George Hough. 1808. p. 7.
10. Farmer, James (1772). The New Hampshire Annual Register and United States Calendar, 1833. Concord: Marsh, Capen and Lyon. p. 18.
11. 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. 151.
12. Coolidge, A. J.; Mansfield, J. B. (1860). History and Description of New England. New Hampshire. Boston: Austin J. Coolidge. p. 708.
13. "NH Governor, 1808". Our Campaigns. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
14. Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 200–201. ISBN 0-930466-17-9.