Moody Currier

Moody Currier
40th Governor of New Hampshire
In office
June 4, 1885  June 2, 1887
Preceded by Samuel W. Hale
Succeeded by Charles H. Sawyer
Member of the
New Hampshire
Governor’s Council
In office
1860–1861
President of the
New Hampshire Senate
In office
1857–1857
Member of the
New Hampshire Senate
In office
1856–1857
Personal details
Born April 22, 1806
Boscawen, New Hampshire
Died August 23, 1898(1898-08-23) (aged 92)
Manchester, New Hampshire
Political party Republican
Other political
affiliations
Democrat, Free Soil Party[1]
Spouse(s) Lucretia C. Dustin; Mary W. Kidder; Hannah A. Slade
Alma mater Dartmouth College, 1834[2]

Moody Currier (April 22, 1806 – August 23, 1898) was a lawyer, banker, generous patron of the arts, and Republican politician from Manchester, New Hampshire.

Currier was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, USA.

Currier married three times first to Lucretia C. Dustin then to Mary W. Kidder, and thirdly to Hannah A. Slade[1]

Currier was the owner and editor of the Manchester Democrat newspaper.[1]

In 1856 to 1857 Currier served in the New Hampshire State Senate serving as President of the Senate in 1857.[3] From 1860 to 1861 Currier was on the Governor’s Council.[1] Currier served as a fellow at Bates College from 1882 to 1889.[4] He was Governor of New Hampshire from 1885 to 1887.

Manchester’s Currier Museum of Art is named after him and was founded based on a bequest in his will and the accompanying efforts of his third wife, Hannah Slade Currier.

Currier died in Manchester in 1898 and is buried in Valley Cemetery.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Capace, Nancy (2000), Encyclopedia of New Hampshire, Santa Barbara, California: Somerset Publishers, Inc., p. 120.
  2. Capace, Nancy (2000), Encyclopedia of New Hampshire, Santa Barbara, California: Somerset Publishers, Inc., p. 119.
  3. Jenks, George E. (1866), Political Journal for the State of The New Hampshire 1867, Concord, New Hampshire: McFarland and Jenks, p. 44.
  4. General Catalogue of Bates College and Cobb Divinity School, 1882-1889 by Bates College Lewiston, Me, Me Lewiston, Cobb Divinity School Lewiston, Me, Cobb Divinity School, Bates College (Lewiston, Me.) Cobb divinity school, Me.) Bates College (Lewiston, Published by The College, 1915)
Political offices
Preceded by
Samuel W. Hale
Governor of New Hampshire
18851887
Succeeded by
Charles H. Sawyer
Preceded by
Thomas J. Melvin
President of the
New Hampshire Senate

1857
Succeeded by
Austin F. Pike


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