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New Hampshire: Executive Councilors

Members of New Hampshire Governor's Council, 1776-2016 (May be incomplete!)

Blank district: Samuel Ashlay 1776-80 Josiah Bartlett 1776-84 Jonathan Blanchard 1776-79 Wyseman Claggett 1776-77 Nathaniel Folsom 1776-77 Benjamin Giles 1776-77 John Hurd 1776-77 Ebenezer Thompson 1776-81 Matthew Thornton 1776-77 Meshech Weare 1776-84 John Wentworth, Jr. 1776-84 William Whipple 1776-77 George Atkinson 1777-81 Nicholas Gilman 1777-83 Matthew Patten 1777-79 Timothy Walker 1777-80 Matthew Thornton 1780-81 George Frost 1781-84 Nathaniel Folsom 1783-84 Joseph Badger 1784-85 Francis Blood 1784-85 Moses Chase 1784-85 John McClary 1784-85 Nathaniel Peabody 1784-86 Moses Dow 1785-87 Amos Shepard 1785-87 John Sullivan 1785-86 Matthew Thornton 1785-86 Robert Means 1786-87 Christopher Toppan 1786-87 Joshua Wentworth 1786-87 Moses Chase 1787-88 Daniel Emerson, Jr. 1787-88 Joseph Gilman 1787-88 John Pickering 1787-88 Ebenezer Thompson 1787-88 Peter Green 1788-89 Josiah Richardson 1788-89 William Simpson 1788-89 Ebenezer Smith 1788-89 Robert Wallace 1788-89 Sanford Kingsbury 1789 John Pickering 1789-90 Christopher Toppan 1790-91 Christopher Toppan 1794-97 James Sheafe 1799 Daniel Blaisdell 1803-08 William Hale 1803-05 Nahum Parker 1804-05 Samuel Bell 1809-10 Caleb Ellis 1809-10 Nathaniel Upham 1811-12 Samuel Dinsmoor 1821 Matthew Harvey 1828-29 Benning M. Bean 1829 John Page 1836 Moses Baker 1838-40 Israel Hunt, Jr. 1838-40 John Page 1838 Enos Stevens 1838-40 John L. Elwyn 1839-40 John H. White 1839-42 Phineas Handerson 1840-42 Henry B. Rust 1840-42 John H. Steele 1840-42 Isaac Waldron 1840-41 Moses Norris, Jr. 1841-42 Cyrus Barton 1842-43 Samuel G. Berry 1842-44 Samuel Egerton 1842-43 James H. Johnson 1842-44 James McK. Wilkins 1842-44 Elijah R. Currier 1843-45 Francis Holbrook 1843-45 Josiah Bartlett 1844-46 Caleb Blodgett 1844-46 William Parker 1844-46 Benjamin Jenness 1845-46 Amos Perkins 1845-46 Enos Ferrin 1846-48 Samuel Jones 1846-48 John Kelly 1846-48 Jared Perkins 1846-49 John C. Young 1846-47 Zebulon Pease 1847-49 Joseph Clough 1848-50 Mace Moulton 1848-49 Isaac Ross 1848-50 John L. Hadley 1849-50 Alvah Smith 1849-51 Dana Woodman 1849-51 Greenleaf Clarke 1850-52 Simeon Warner 1850-52 Samuel Butterfield 1851-53 George Huntington 1851-52 Joseph H. Smith 1851-53 James Batcheller 1852-54 Russell Cox 1852-54 Moses Eaton, Jr. 1852-53 Abel Haley 1853-55 Uri Lamprey 1853-54 Zebediah Shattuck 1853-54 Edson Hill 1854-55 Thomas Merrill 1854-55 Daniel M. Smith 1854-55 John Dame 1855-57 Milon C. McClure 1855-57 William Tenney 1855-56 Nicholas V. Whitehouse 1855-56 Thomas Cogswell 1856-57 Thomas Merrill 1856-57 Richard H. Messer 1856-58 William H. H. Bailey 1857-59 Allen Griffin 1857-59 Daniel Rogers 1857-58 Nicholas V. Whitehouse 1857-58 Aurin M. Chase 1858-59 Thomas L. Whitton 1858-60 John M. Worcester 1858-60 Reed P. Clark 1859-61 Cyrus Eastman 1859-60 Robert Elwell 1859-61 Dennison R. Burnham 1860-62 Moody Currier 1860-62 Daniel Sawyer 1860-62 Charles F. Brooks 1861-63 Richard P. J. Tenney 1861-63 Ethan Colby 1862-63 Oliver Pillsbury 1862-64 Oliver Wyatt 1862-63 Charles H. Eastman 1863-65 John W. Noyes 1863-65 Levi Parker 1863-64 John W. Sanborn 1863-64 John M. Brackett 1864-66 Leonard Chase 1864-66 David Culver 1864-66 John H. Elliott 1865-67 Horton D. Walker 1865-67 Benjamin J. Cole 1866-68 Luther B. Hoskins 1866-67 Isaac Spalding 1866-68 Hazen Bedel 1867-69 William C. Patten 1867-69 William E. Tutherly 1867-69 Moses A. Hodgdon 1868-70 Charles Jones 1868-70 Samuel W. Hale 1869-71 Moses Humphrey 1869-71 Evarts Worcester Farr 1876 George H. Stowell 1881-83 Henry B. Quinby 1891-92 Sumner Wallace 1899-1900 Charles M. Floyd 1904 Edward G. Leach 1905-06 Stephen S. Jewett 1907-08 Charles H. Brackett 1933 Alphonse Roy 1933-37 Charles M. Dale 1937-38 George D. Roberts 1941-43 Philip C. Heald 1943-45 Albert R. Martineau 1943-45 John W. Perkins 1943-45 Scott C. W. Simpson 1943-45 Thomas J. Leonard 1945-47 James C. McLeod 1945-47 Peter R. Poirier 1945-47 Joshua Studley 1945-47 George Albert Wooster 1945-47 Franklin Flanders 1947-49 Paul J. Gingras 1947-49 Paul W. Hobbs 1947-49 Donald G. Matson 1947-49 Carl E. Morin 1947-49 Charles J. Mills 1949-51 Howard R. Flanders 1951-55 George T. Noyes 1951-53 Renfrew A. Thomson 1951-53 Renfrew A. Thomson 1957-59 Judd Gregg 1979-81 Bernard A. Streeter 1980 Chris Sununu 2011-16
1st District: James F. Seavey 1903 Harold K. Davison 1939-40 Harry P. Smart 1949-51
2nd District: Alfred A. Collins 1903 Oren V. Henderson 1939-41 Ansel N. Sanborn 1941-43 J. Guy Smart 1949-51
3rd District: Frank E. Kaley 1903 Moise Verrette 1917-18 Thomas A. Murray 1937-43 C. Edward Bourassa 1949-53
4th District: Seth M. Richards 1903 William A. Molloy 1941-43 Raymond J. Wieczorek 2002-12
5th District: A. Crosby Kennett 1903-04 Charles H. Greenleaf 1905-06 Harold G. Fairbanks 1941-45 Charles F. Stafford 1949-53 John P. H. Chandler, Jr. 1953-59

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1783 Apr 7: Nicholas Gilman, died in office.

1902 Nov 4: James F. Seavey (Rep), elected; Charles A. Morse (Dem), defeated; John P. M. Brown (Prohibition), defeated. Alfred A. Collins (Rep), elected; Alliston L. Partridge (Dem), defeated; John N. Bradford (Prohibition), defeated. Frank E. Kaley (Rep), elected; Frank A. Dearborn (Dem), defeated; Charles Osborne (Prohibition), defeated. Seth M. Richards (Rep), elected; Horace K. Martin (Dem), defeated; Arthur W. Kidder (Prohibition), defeated. A. Crosby Kennett (Rep), elected; Leonard M. Knight (Dem), defeated; Henry O. Jackson (Prohibition), defeated.

1916 Nov 7: Miles W. Gray (Rep & Progressive), elected; Alonzo D. Barrett (Dem), defeated; Charles A. Hobbs (Socialist), defeated; John C. Berry (Prohibition), defeated. Charles W. Varney (Rep), elected; John G. Parsons (Dem), defeated. Moise Verrette (Dem), elected; Frank W. Leeman (Rep & Progressive), defeated; William S. Cooper (Socialist), defeated. William D. Swart (Rep & Progressive), elected; John W. Prentiss (Dem), defeated; Albert S. Heaton (Socialist), defeated. Edward S. Carroll (Rep & Progressive), elected; David E. Murphy (Dem), defeated; Leon Hall (Socialist), defeated.

1938 Sep 13: Herbert C. Lovejoy (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1938 Sep 13: Harold K. Davison (Rep), nominated; John B. Eames (Rep), defeated in primary.

1938 Nov 8: Harold K. Davison (Rep), elected; Herbert C. Lovejoy (Dem), defeated.

1938 Sep 13: William A. Grimes (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1938 Sep 13: Oren V. Henderson (Rep), nominated unopposed.

1938 Nov 8: Oren V. Henderson (Rep), elected; William A. Grimes (Dem), defeated.

1938 Sep 13: Thomas A. Murray (Dem), nominated; Wilfred R. Gaumont (Dem), defeated in primary; J. Felix Daniel (Dem), defeated in primary; Martin J. McIntyre (Dem), defeated in primary; Arthur Joseph Lacroix (Dem), defeated in primary; Frank J. Connor (Dem), defeated in primary; John J. McCarthy (Dem), defeated in primary; Frank T. Conway (Dem), defeated in primary; Joseph A. Bedard (Dem), defeated in primary; William H. Egan (Dem), defeated in primary; Frank J. Harrington (Dem), defeated in primary; Michael Kennedy (Dem), defeated in primary.

1938 Sep 13: Frederick C. Miller (Rep), nominated; Albert W. Lacroix (Rep), defeated in primary; Edward F. Fitzgerald (Rep), defeated in primary.

1938 Nov 8: Thomas A. Murray (Dem), elected; Frederick C. Miller (Rep), defeated.

1938 Sep 13: William A. Molloy (Dem), nominated; Robert J. Doyle (Dem), defeated in primary.

1938 Sep 13: Arthur T. Appleton (Rep), nominated; Ward Whitney (Rep), defeated in primary; George W. Underhill (Rep), defeated in primary.

1938 Nov 8: Arthur T. Appleton (Rep), elected; William A. Molloy (Dem), defeated.

1938 Sep 13: John W. Stanley (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1938 Sep 13: George H. Rolfe (Rep), nominated; Anson C. Alexander (Rep), defeated in primary; H. Raymond Danforth (Rep), defeated in primary.

1938 Nov 8: George H. Rolfe (Rep), elected; John W. Stanley (Dem), defeated.

1940 Nov 5: George D. Roberts (Rep), elected; Joseph Alfred Seymour (Dem), defeated.

1948 Nov 2: Harry P. Smart (Rep), elected; William A. Styles (Dem), defeated.

1940 Nov 5: Ansel N. Sanborn (Rep), elected; John P. Carberry (Dem), defeated.

1948 Nov 2: J. Guy Smart (Rep), elected; John P. Carberry (Dem), defeated.

1940 Nov 5: Thomas A. Murray (Dem), elected; Walter A. Bailey (Rep), defeated.

1948 Nov 2: C. Edward Bourassa (Dem), elected; Aime V. Plante (Rep), defeated.

1940 Nov 5: William A. Molloy (Dem), elected; Stanley James (Rep), defeated.

1948 Nov 2: Charles Morris Mills (Rep), elected; Donat Roy (Dem), defeated.

1940 Nov 5: Harold G. Fairbanks (Rep), elected; John W. Stanley (Dem), defeated.

1948 Nov 2: Charles F. Stafford (Rep & Dem), elected unopposed.

1956 Sep 11: Charles H. Whittier (Rep), nominated; George L. Frazer, Sr. (Rep), defeated in primary; Archie H. Thorburn (Rep), defeated in primary.

1956 Nov 6: Charles H. Whittier (Rep), elected unopposed.

1956 Sep 11: Harold E. Wentworth (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1956 Sep 11: Renfrew A. Thomson (Rep), nominated; C. Wesley Lyons (Rep), defeated in primary; Helen C. Funkhouser (Rep), defeated in primary; Frederick C. Smalley (Rep), defeated in primary.

1956 Nov 6: Renfrew A. Thomson (Rep), elected; Harold E. Wentworth (Dem), defeated.

1956 Sep 11: Roger E. Brassard (Dem), nominated; Thomas B. O'Malley (Dem), defeated in primary; Emile A. Marcoux (Dem), defeated in primary; Michael B. Bresnahan (Dem), defeated in primary; Antonio Gosselin (Dem), defeated in primary.

1956 Sep 11: George A. Lang (Rep), nominated; Paul M. Martel (Rep), defeated in primary.

1956 Nov 6: Roger E. Brassard (Dem), elected; George A. Lang (Rep), defeated.

1956 Sep 11: Claude E. Nichols (Dem), nominated; Richard W. Leonard (Dem), defeated in primary.

1956 Sep 11: Frederic H. Fletcher (Rep), nominated; Howard Lappe (Rep), defeated in primary.

1956 Nov 6: Frederic H. Fletcher (Rep), elected; Claude E. Nichols (Dem), defeated. John P. H. Chandler, Jr. (Rep), elected; Eugene S. Daniell, Jr. (Dem), defeated.

1994 Nov 8: Raymond S. Burton (Rep), elected; Kevin F. MacMillan (Dem), defeated; Edmund S. Foley (Libertarian), defeated. Peter J. Spaulding (Rep), elected; Barbara Kuhlman Brown (Dem), defeated. Ruth L. Griffin (Rep & Libertarian), elected; Barbara L. Garofalo (Dem), defeated. Earl A. Rinker III (Rep), elected; Roy Melnick, defeated. Bernard A. Streeter (Rep), elected; Keith Regli (Dem), defeated; Robert Multer (Libertarian), defeated.

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