The 1849 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 13, 1849. Incumbent Democratic

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Jared W. Williams Jared Warner Williams (December 22, 1796September 29, 1864) was an American lawyer and politician from Lancaster, New Hampshire, who was a U.S. representative, the 21st governor of New Hampshire 1847 to 1849 and a United States senator. Biograp ...

did not stand for re-election. Democratic nominee

Samuel Dinsmoor Jr. Samuel Dinsmoor Jr. (May 8, 1799 – February 24, 1869) was an American lawyer, banker, politician, and the 22nd governor of New Hampshire. Early life Dinsmoor was born in Keene, New Hampshire and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1814. He stu ...

defeated Whig nominee Levi Chamberlain and

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nominee Nathaniel S. Berry with 53.73% of the vote.

General election

Candidates

* Nathaniel S. Berry, Free Soil, judge of the Grafton County Court of Common Pleas, Free Soil nominee for Governor in

1846 Events January–March * January 5 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Country with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom. * January 13 – The Milan–Venice railway' ...

1847 Events January–March * January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government. * January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California. * January 16 – John C. Frémont ...

and

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*Levi Chamberlain, Whig, lawyer, former

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, Democratic, former clerk of the

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, president of the Ashuelot Bank

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1849 Events January–March * January 1 – France begins issue of the Ceres series, the nation's first postage stamps. * January 5 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The Austrian army, led by Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, enters in th ...

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