List of presidents of the New Hampshire Senate
The position of President of the New Hampshire Senate was created when the New Hampshire Senate was founded in 1784.
Name | Took Office | Left Office | Party | Residence |
Woodbury Langdon | 1784 | 1785 | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | |
John McClary | 1785 | 1787 | Epsom, New Hampshire | |
Joseph Gilman | 1787 | 1788 | Exeter, New Hampshire | |
John Pickering | 1788 | 1790 | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | |
Ebenezer Smith | 1790 | 1791 | Meredith, New Hampshire | |
Moses Dow | 1791 | 1792 | Haverhill, New Hampshire | |
Ebenezer Smith | 1792 | 1793 | Meredith, New Hampshire | |
Abiel Foster | 1793 | 1793 | Federalist Party | Canterbury, New Hampshire |
Oliver Peabody | 1794 | 1794 | Exeter, New Hampshire | |
Ebenezer Smith | 1795 | 1796 | Meredith, New Hampshire | |
Amos Shepard | 1797 | 1803 | Alstead, New Hampshire | |
Nicholas Gilman | 1804 | 1804 | Democratic-Republican | Exeter, New Hampshire |
Clement Storer | 1805 | 1807 | Democratic-Republican | Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
Samuel Bell | 1807 | 1808 | Democratic-Republican | Londonderry, New Hampshire |
Moses P. Payson | 1809 | 1809 | Bath, New Hampshire | |
William Plumer | 1810 | 1811 | Democratic-Republican | Epping, New Hampshire |
Joshua Darling | 1812 | 1812 | Henniker, New Hampshire | |
Oliver Peabody | 1813 | 1813 | Exeter, New Hampshire | |
Moses P. Payson | 1814 | 1815 | Bath, New Hampshire | |
William Badger | 1816 | 1817 | Gilmanton, New Hampshire | |
Jonathan Harvey | 1817 | 1822 | Democratic-Republican | Sutton, New Hampshire |
David L. Morril | 1823 | 1823 | Democratic-Republican | Goffstown, New Hampshire |
Josiah Bartlet | 1824 | 1825 | Stratham, New Hampshire | |
Mathew Harvey | 1825 | 1828 | Hopkinton, New Hampshire | |
Nahum Parker | 1828 | 1829 | Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire | |
Abner Greenleaf | 1829 | 1829 | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | |
Samuel Cartland | 1829 | 1829 | Haverhill, New Hampshire | |
Joseph M. Harper | 1830 | 1830 | Canterbury, New Hampshire | |
Samuel Cartland | 1831 | 1831 | Haverhill, New Hampshire | |
Benning M. Bean | 1831 | 1832 | Democratic-Republican | Moultonborough, New Hampshire |
Jared W. Williams | 1833 | 1834 | Lancaster, New Hampshire | |
Charles F. Grove | 1835 | 1835 | Goffstown, New Hampshire | |
James Clark | 1836 | 1836 | Franklin, New Hampshire | |
John Woodbury | 1837 | 1837 | Salem, New Hampshire | |
Samuel Jones | 1838 | 1838 | Bradford, New Hampshire | |
James McK. Wilkins | 1839 | 1839 | Bedford, New Hampshire | |
James B. Creighton | 1840 | 1840 | Newmarket, New Hampshire | |
Josiah Quincy | 1841 | 1842 | Rumney, New Hampshire | |
Titus Brown | 1843 | 1843 | National Republican Party | Francestown, New Hampshire |
Timothy Hoskins | 1844 | 1844 | Westmoreland, New Hampshire | |
Asa P. Cate | 1845 | 1845 | Northfield, New Hampshire | |
James U. Parker | 1846 | 1846 | Merrimack, New Hampshire | |
Harry Hibbard | 1847 | 1848 | Democrat | Bath, New Hampshire |
William P. Weeks | 1849 | 1849 | Canaan, New Hampshire | |
Richard Jenness | 1850 | 1851 | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | |
John S. Wells | 1851 | 1852 | Democrat | Durham, New Hampshire |
James M. Rix | 1853 | 1853 | Democrat | Lancaster, New Hampshire |
J. Everett Sargent | 1854 | 1855 | Wentworth, New Hampshire | |
William Haile | 1855 | 1855 | Hinsdale, New Hampshire | |
Thomas J. Melvin | 1856 | 1856 | Chester, New Hampshire | |
Moody Currier | 1857 | 1857 | Democrat | Manchester, New Hampshire |
Austin F. Pike | 1858 | 1858 | Republican | Hebron, New Hampshire |
Joseph A. Gilmore | 1859 | 1859 | Concord, New Hampshire | |
George S. Towle | 1860 | 1860 | Lebanon, New Hampshire | |
Herman Foster | 1861 | 1861 | Manchester, New Hampshire | |
William H. Y. Hackett | 1862 | 1862 | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | |
Onslow Stearns | 1863 | 1863 | Concord, New Hampshire | |
Charles H. Bell | 1864 | 1864 | Republican | Exeter, New Hampshire |
Ezekiel A. Straw | 1865 | 1866 | Republican | Salisbury, New Hampshire |
Daniel Barnard | 1866 | 1867 | Franklin, New Hampshire | |
William T. Parker | 1867 | 1868 | Merrimack, New Hampshire | |
Ezra A. Stevens | 1868 | 1869 | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | |
John Y. Mugridge | 1869 | 1870 | Concord, New Hampshire | |
Nathanial Gordon | 1870 | 1871 | Exeter, New Hampshire | |
George W. M. Pittman | 1871 | 1872 | Bartlett, New Hampshire | |
Charles H. Campbell | 1872 | 1873 | Nashua, New Hampshire | |
David A. Wade | 1873 | 1874 | Concord, New Hampshire | |
William H. Grove | 1874 | 1875 | Weare, New Hampshire | |
John W. Sanborn | 1875 | 1876 | Wakefield, New Hampshire | |
Charles Holman | 1876 | 1877 | Nashua, New Hampshire | |
Nathaniel Head | 1877 | 1878 | Hooksett, New Hampshire | |
David H. Buffum | 1878 | 1879 | Somersworth, New Hampshire | |
Jacob H. Gallinger | 1879 | 1881 | Republican | Concord, New Hampshire |
John Kimball | 1881 | 1883 | Republican | Concord, New Hampshire |
Charles H. Bartlett | 1883 | 1885 | Manchester, New Hampshire | |
Chester Pike | 1885 | 1887 | Republican | Cornish, New Hampshire |
Frank Dunklee Currier | 1887 | 1889 | Republican | Canaan, New Hampshire |
David A. Taggart | 1889 | 1891 | Republican | Manchester, New Hampshire |
John McLane | 1891 | 1895 | Republican | Milford, New Hampshire |
Frank W. Rollins | 1895 | 1897 | Republican | Concord, New Hampshire |
Chester B. Jordan | 1897 | 1899 | Republican | Colebrook, New Hampshire |
Thomas N. Hastings | 1899 | 1901 | Republican | Walpole, New Hampshire |
Bertram Ellis | 1901 | 1903 | Republican | Keene, New Hampshire |
Charles W. Hoitt | January 7, 1903 | 1905 | Republican | Nashua, New Hampshire |
George H. Adams | January 4, 1905 | 1907 | Republican | Plymouth, New Hampshire |
John Scammon | January 2, 1907 | 1909 | Republican | Exeter, New Hampshire |
Harry T. Lord | 1909 | 1911 | Republican | Manchester, New Hampshire |
William D. Swart | 1911 | 1913 | Republican | Nashua, New Hampshire |
Enos K. Sawyer | 1913 | 1915 | Democrat | Franklin, New Hampshire |
George I. Haselton | 1915 | 1917 | Republican | Manchester, New Hampshire |
Jesse M. Barton | 1917 | 1919 | Republican | Newport, New Hampshire |
Artur P. Morill | 1919 | 1921 | Republican | Concord, New Hampshire |
Leslie P. Snow | 1921 | 1923 | Republican | Rochester, New Hampshire |
Wesley Adams | 1923 | 1925 | Republican | Londonderry, New Hampshire |
Charles W. Tobey | 1925 | 1927 | Republican | Temple, New Hampshire |
Frank P. Tilton | 1927 | 1929 | Republican | Laconia, New Hampshire |
Harold K. Davison | 1929 | 1931 | Republican | Woodsville, New Hampshire |
Arthur R. Jones | 1931 | 1933 | Republican | Keene, New Hampshire |
George D. Cummings | 1933 | 1935 | Republican | Peterborough, New Hampshire |
Charles M. Dale | 1935 | 1937 | Republican | Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
Anson C. Alexander | 1937 | 1939 | Republican | Boscawen, New Hampshire |
Robert O. Blood | 1939 | 1941 | Republican | Concord, New Hampshire |
William M. Cole | 1941 | 1943 | Republican | Derry, New Hampshire |
Ansel N. Sanborn | 1943 | 1945 | Republican | Wakefield, New Hampshire |
Donald G. Matson | 1945 | 1947 | Republican | Concord, New Hampshire |
Charles H. Barnard | 1947 | 1949 | Republican | Manchester, New Hampshire |
Perkins Bass | 1949 | 1951 | Republican | Peterborough, New Hampshire |
Blaylock Atherton | 1951 | 1953 | Republican | Nashua, New Hampshire |
Lane Dwinell | 1953 | 1955 | Republican | Lebanon, New Hampshire |
Raymond K. Perkins | 1955 | 1957 | Republican | Concord, New Hampshire |
Eralsey C. Ferguson | 1957 | 1959 | Republican | Pittsfield, New Hampshire |
Norman A. Packard | 1959 | 1961 | Republican | Manchester, New Hampshire |
Samuel Green | 1961 | 1963 | Republican | Manchester, New Hampshire |
Phillip S. Dunlap | 1963 | 1965 | Republican | Hopkinton, New Hampshire |
Stewart Lamprey | 1965 | 1969 | Republican | Moultonborough, New Hampshire |
Arthur Tufts | 1969 | 1970 | Republican | Exeter, New Hampshire |
John R. Bradshaw | 1971 | 1972 | Republican | Nelson, New Hampshire |
David L. Nixon | 1973 | 1974 | Republican | New Boston, New Hampshire |
Alf E. Jacobson | 1975 | 1979 | Republican | New London, New Hampshire |
Robert B. Monier | 1979 | 1982 | Republican | Goffstown, New Hampshire |
Vesta M. Roy | 1983 | 1986 | Republican | Salem, New Hampshire |
William S. Bartlett, Jr. | 1987 | 1990 | Republican | Kingston, New Hampshire |
Edward C. Dupont, Jr. | 1991 | 1993 | Republican | Rochester, New Hampshire |
Ralph D. Hough | 1993 | 1994 | Republican | Lebanon, New Hampshire |
Joseph L. Delahunty | 1995 | 1999 | Republican | Salem, New Hampshire |
Clesson J. Blaisdell | 1999 | August 1999 | Democrat | Keene, New Hampshire |
Beverly Hollingworth | August 1999 | 2000 | Democrat | Hampton, New Hampshire |
Arthur P. Klemm, Jr. | December 6, 2000 | 2002 | Republican | Windham, New Hampshire |
Thomas R. Eaton | 2002 | September 9, 2005 | Republican | Keene, New Hampshire |
Theodore Gatsas | 2005 | 2006 | Republican | Manchester, New Hampshire |
Sylvia Larsen | 2006 | 2010 | Democrat | Concord, New Hampshire |
Peter Bragdon | 2010 | 2013 | Republican | Amherst, New Hampshire |
Chuck Morse | August 27, 2013 | December 5, 2018 | Republican | Salem, New Hampshire |
Donna Soucy | December 5, 2018 | present | Democrat | Manchester, New Hampshire |
Living former Senate Presidents
, eleven former Senate Presidents were alive. The most recent Senate President to die was Perkins Bass, on October 25, 2011.Senate President | Senate President term | Date of birth |
William S. Bartlett, Jr. | 1987-1990 | |
Edward C. Dupont, Jr. | 1991-1993 | |
Ralph D. Hough | 1993-1994 | |
Joseph L. Delahunty | 1995-1999 | |
Beverly Hollingworth | 1999-2000 | |
Arthur P. Klemm, Jr | 2000-2002 | |
Thomas R. Eaton | 2002-2005 | |
Theodore Gatsas | 2005-2006 | |
Sylvia Larsen | 2006-2010 | |
Peter Bragdon | 2010-2013 | |
Chuck Morse | 2013-2018 |