William Plumer

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name =William Plumer


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jr/sr =United States Senator
state =New Hampshire
term_start =June 17, 1802
term_end =March 3, 1807
preceded =James Sheafe
succeeded =Nahum Parker
order2 =11th & 13th Governor of New Hampshire
term_start2 =June 5, 1812
term_end2 =June 3, 1813
June 6, 1816 – June 3, 1819
predecessor2 =John T. Gilman
successor2 =Samuel Bell
birth_date =June 25, 1759
birth_place =Newburyport, Massachusetts
death_date =December 22, 1850
death_place =Epping, New Hampshire
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party =Democratic-Republican
otherparty =Federalist
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William Plumer (June 25, 1759ndash December 22, 1850) was an American lawyer and lay preacher from Epping, New Hampshire. Born in 1759 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he represented New Hampshire as a Federalist in the United States Senate from June 17, 1802 to March 3, 1807. Plumer would serve as Governor of New Hampshire, 1812–1813 and 1816–1819. In the 1820 presidential election, he cast the only dissenting vote in the Electoral College against incumbent President James Monroe, voting instead for John Quincy Adams.

In 1803 Plumer was one of several New England Federalists who proposed secession from the United States due to lack ofsupport for Federalists, rising influence of Jeffersonian Democrats and the diminished influence of the North due to the LouisianaPurchase.

Plumer was a founder and the first president of the New Hampshire Historical Society. He died in 1850, aged 91, at Epping, New Hampshire.

External links

* [http://dca.tufts.edu/features/aas/index.html A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825]