Samuel Bell
| Samuel Bell | |
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| 8th Governor of New Hampshire | |
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In office June 3, 1819 – June 5, 1823 |
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| Preceded by | William Plumer |
| Succeeded by | Levi Woodbury |
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United States Senator from New Hampshire |
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In office March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1835 |
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| Preceded by | David L. Morril |
| Succeeded by | Henry Hubbard |
| Member of the New Hampshire Senate | |
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In office 1807–1809 |
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| Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives | |
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In office 1804 |
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February 9, 1770 Londonderry, Province of New Hampshire, British America |
| Died | December 23, 1850 (aged 80) Chester, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican, National Republican, Whig |
Samuel Bell (February 9, 1770 – December 23, 1850) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 14th Governor of New Hampshire from 1819 to 1823, and as the United States Senator for New Hampshire from 1823 to 1835. Born in Londonderry in the Province of New Hampshire, Bell became a lawyer in the 1790s, and entered politics by becoming a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1804. In 1806, the year he left the House, he became the head of a bank which during his tenure in that position became the only New Hampshire bank to fail between 1792 and 1840. A member of the New Hampshire Senate from 1807 to 1809, and an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court from 1816 to 1819, Bell was elected to become the Governor of New Hampshire in 1819 as Democratic-Republican. Re-elected in 1820, 1821, and 1822 against token opposition, Bell's victory in 1822 was accompanied by the largest share of votes cast for a governor candidate of New Hampshire since John Taylor Gilman's victory in 1795. Whilst Governor, New Hampshire's crime level fell, and industry within the state prospered. In 1823, declining to stand again for the governorship, he became a Senator for New Hampshire. He won re-election in 1829, was the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Claims, and left the Senate in 1835. He retired from public life thereafter, and died in Chester, New Hampshire at the age of 80. He is buried in Chester Village Cemetery, Rockingham, New Hampshire.
Samuel Bell was born on February 9, 1770, in Londonderry, New Hampshire, to John and Mary Ann (Gilmore) Bell. Until he was eighteen, Bell worked on his father's farm, and was educated at common schools during winter seasons. Wishing to undertake higher education, Bell began studying Latin in April 1788, and later enrolled into the New Ipswich Academy. From October 1790 to April 1791, he was a teacher in Londonderry, and in the May following entered the sophomore class at Dartmouth College. Graduating in 1793, Bell proceeded to study law and was admitted to the Hillsborough bar in September 1796, after which he served as a lawyer in Francestown.
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