Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History
Benson Lossing, Ed.

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New Hampshire.

In 1776 the colony of New Hampshire made a public declaration of independence, and established a temporary government to last during the war. On June 12, 1781, a convention framed a State constitution, which, after numerous alterations, went into force June 2, 1784. The constitution provided that once in seven years it

State seal of New Hampshire.

should be submitted to a vote of the people on proposed amendments. This was done in September, 1791, and the constitution then adopted continues to be the supreme law of the State. A convention sitting in Concord from Nov. 6, 1850, to April 17, 1851, considered numerous proposed amendments, but only one was adopted—namely, removing the property qualifications of representatives. The aggregate number of troops furnished by New Hampshire for the National army during the Civil War was 34,605, of whom 5,518 perished in battle, and 11,039 were disabled by wounds and sickness. Population in 1890, 376,530; in 1900, 411,588 See United States, New Hampshire, in vol. IX.

Governors.

Mesheck Weare	assumes office	1775
John Langdon	assumes office	1785
John Sullivan	assumes office	1786
John Langdon	assumes office	1788
John Sullivan	assumes office	1789
Josiah Bartlett	assumes office	1794
John Taylor Gilman.	assumes office	1794
John Langdon	assumes office	1805
Jeremiah Smith	assumes office	1809
John Langdon	assumes office	1810
William Plumer	assumes office	1812
John Taylor Gilman	assumes office	1813
William Plumer	assumes office	1816
Samuel Bell	assumes office	1819
Levi Woodbury	assumes office	1823
David L. Morrill	assumes office	1824
Benjamin Pierce	assumes office	1827
John Bell	assumes office	1828
Benjamin Pierce	assumes office	1829
Matthew Harvey	assumes office	1830
Joseph M. Harper	acting	Feb., 1831
Samuel Dinsmoor	assumes office	June, 1831
William Badger	assumes office	1834
Isaac Hill	assumes office	1836
John Page	assumes office	1839
Henry Hubbard	assumes office	1842
John H. Steele	assumes office	1844
Anthony Colby	assumes office	1846
Jared W. Williams	assumes office	1847
Samuel Dinsmoor	assumes office	1849
Noah Martin	assumes office	1852
Nathaniel B. Baker.	assumes office	1854
Ralph Metcalf	assumes office	1855
William Haile	assumes office	1857
Ichabod Goodwin	assumes office	1859
Nathaniel S. Berry	assumes office	1861
Joseph A. Gilmore	assumes office	1863
Frederick Smyth	assumes office	1865
Walter Harriman	assumes office	1867
Onslow Stearns	assumes office	1869
James A. Weston	assumes office	1871
Ezekiel A. Straw	assumes office	1872
James A. Weston	assumes office	1874
Person C. Cheney	assumes office	1875
Benjamin F. Prescott.	assumes office	1877
Nathaniel Head	assumes office	1879
Charles H. Bell	assumes office	1881
Samuel W. Hale	assumes office	1883
Moody Currier	assumes office	1885
Charles H. Sawyer	assumes office	1887
David H. Goodell	assumes office	1889
Hiram A. Tuttle	assumes office	1891
John B. Smith	assumes office	1893
Charles A. Busiel	assumes office	1895
George A. Ramsdell	assumes office	1897
Frank W. Rollins	assumes office	1899
Chester B. Jordan	assumes office	1901

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United States Senators.

Name	No. of Congress.	Term
John Langdon	1st	1789
Paine Wingate	1st to 3d	1789 to 1793
Samuel Livermore	3d to 6th	1793 to 1801
James Sheafe	7th	1801 to 1802
Simeon Olcott	7th to 9th	1801 to 1805
William Plumer	7th to 19th	1802 to 1807
Nicholas Gilman	9th to 13th	1805 to 1814
Nahum Parker	10th	1807 to 1810
Charles Cutts	11th	1810
Jeremiah Mason	13th to 15th	1813 to 1817
Thomas W. Thompson	13th to 14th	1815 to 1817
David L. Morrill	14th to 18th	1817 to 1823
Clement Storer	15th to 16th	1817 to 1819
John F. Parrott	16th to 19th	1819 to 1825
Samuel Bell	18th to 24th	1823 to 1836
Levi Woodbury	19th to 22d	1825 to 1831
Isaac Hill	22d to 24th	1831 to 1836
John Page	24th	1836
Henry Hubbard	24th to 27th	1836 to 1842
Franklin Pierce	25th to 27th	1837 to 1842
Leonard Wilcox	27th	1842
Levi Woodbury	27th to 29th	1842 to 1845
Charles G. Atherton	28th to 31st	1843 to 1849
Benning J. Jenness	29th	1845 to 1846
Joseph Cilley	to	1846 to 1847
John P. Hale	30th to 33d	1847 to 1853
Moses Norris. Jr.	31st to 33d	1849 to 1855
Charles G. Atherton	33d	1853
Jared W. Williams	to	1853
John S. Wells	to	1855
James Bell	34th	1855 to 1857
John P. Hale	34th to 38th	1855 to 1865
Daniel Clark	35th to 39th	1857 to 1866
George G. Fogg	39th	1866 to 1867
Aaron H. Cragin	39th to 44th	1866 to 1875
James W. Patterson	40th to 43d	1867 to 1873
Bainbridge Wadleigh	43d to 46th	1873 to 1879
Edward H. Rollins	45th to 48th	1877 to 1883
Henry W. Blair	46th to 52d	1879 to 1891
Austin F. Pike	48th to 49th	1883 to 1886
Person C. Cheney	49th to 50th	1886 to1888
William E. Chandler	50th to 57th	1888 to 1901
Jacob H. Gallinger	52d to —	1891 to —
Henry E. Burnham	57th to —	1901 to —