1. William Plumer was an American lawyer, Baptist lay preacher, and politician from Epping, New Hampshire.
18 Facts About William Plumer
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William Plumer is most notable for his service as a Federalist in the United States Senate, and the seventh governor of New Hampshire as a Democratic-Republican.
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William Plumer's family moved to Epping, New Hampshire, in 1768, and he was raised at his father's farm on Epping's Red Oak Hill.
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William Plumer attended the Red Oak Hill School until he was 17.
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Frequent ill health left him unsuited for military service during the American Revolution or life as a farmer, and after a religious conversion experience in his late teens, William Plumer was trained as a Baptist exhorter.
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William Plumer briefly considered a career as a doctor, and began to study medicine.
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William Plumer attained admission to the bar in 1787, and began to practice in Epping.
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William Plumer served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1785 to 1786, in 1788, from 1790 to 1791, and from 1797 to 1800.
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William Plumer was elected to the US Senate as a Federalist and filled the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Sheafe.
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William Plumer served from June 17,1802, to March 3,1807, and was not a candidate for re-election.
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In 1803, William Plumer was one of several New England Federalists to propose secession from the United States because of the lack of power by Federalists, the rising influence of Jeffersonian Democrats, and the diminished influence of the North since the Louisiana Purchase.
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William Plumer served in the New Hampshire Senate in 1810 and 1811, and was chosen in both years to serve as the Senate's president.
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William Plumer returned to office in 1816, and served until 1819.
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William Plumer cast the only dissenting vote in the Electoral College against incumbent President James Monroe, voting instead for John Quincy Adams.
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William Plumer was a founder and the first president of the New Hampshire Historical Society.
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William Plumer was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815.
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William Plumer died in Epping on December 22,1850, and was buried at the William Plumer Family Cemetery in Epping.
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In 1788, William Plumer married Sarah "Sally" Fowler of Newmarket, New Hampshire.