1808 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
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.
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 ^ Some sources give slightly different results. The result given is taken from the New Hampshire Senate Journal.[ 13] [ 14] ^ "New Hampshire 1808 Governor" . Tufts Digital Collations and Archives . A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University . Retrieved December 11, 2021 . ^ The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, for the Year 1849 . Vol. III. Boston: Samuel G. Drake. 1849. p. 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 . Andover: William H. Wardwell. p. 28. ^ Scales, John (1914). History of Strafford County New Hampshire and Representative Citizens . Chicago, Ill.: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. p. 574. ^ Opal, J. M. (Winter 2000). "The Politics of "Industry": Federalism in Concord and Exeter, New Hampshire, 1790-1805" . Journal of the Early Republic . 20 (4). University of Pennsylvania Press: 637–671. doi :10.2307/3125010 . JSTOR 3125010 . Retrieved December 11, 2021 . ^ Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 . Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. p. 66. ISBN 1-56802-396-0 . ^ 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 . ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ Farmer, James (1772). The New Hampshire Annual Register and United States Calendar, 1833 . Concord: Marsh, Capen and Lyon. p. 18. ^ 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. ^ Coolidge, A. J.; Mansfield, J. B. (1860). History and Description of New England. New Hampshire . Boston: Austin J. Coolidge. p. 708. ^ "NH Governor, 1808" . Our Campaigns. Retrieved December 11, 2021 . ^ Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 . Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 200–201. ISBN 0-930466-17-9 .