predecessor successor death_date birth_place office birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name
samuel dinsmoor moses p. payson isaac hill jonathan harvey 21 september 1852 gilmanton , new hampshire governor senate of new hampshire president of the new hampshire january 13 , 1779 15th june 5 , 1834 1816 william badger nh.jpg william badger
 june 2 , 1836 1817 william badger
william badger

william badger -lrb- january 13 , 1779 -- september 21 , 1852 -rrb- was an american manufacturer and mill owner from gilmanton , new hampshire .
he served in both houses of the new hampshire general court and was elected governor for two terms .
-lsb- http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/glikeness/badgwill.html] badger was born at gilmanton , new hampshire .
educated at common school and at gilmanton academy , badger worked after his school years to build a cotton cloth factory , a saw mill and a grist mill for his town .
in 1804 badger was made a trustee of gilmanton academy ; he ultimately became president of the board for the school .
badger served as an aide to governor john langdon -lrb- governor 1805-1812 -rrb- .
in 1810 he was elected to the first of three consecutive terms as a member of the new hampshire house of representatives -lrb- served 1810-1812 -rrb- ; then he served three terms in the new hampshire senate -lrb- 1814 -- 1817 ; president of the senate , 1816 -- 1817 -rrb- .
badger served as associate justice , court of common pleas -lrb- 1816 -- 1820 -rrb- , and as high sheriff of strafford county , new hampshire -lrb- 1820 -- 1830 -rrb- .
he was a presidential elector in the national elections of 1824 , 1836 and 1844 .
in 1834 badger won the gubernatorial election , and he won the next term as well .
as governor , badger called for eliminating capital punishment , a new idea for new hampshire .
he had to deal with the breakaway indian stream republic .
badger also encouraged the legislature to support president andrew jackson 's successful efforts to do away with the second bank of the united states -lrb- helping to bring on the panic of 1837 -rrb- .
badger tried to inject new life into the state militia by statute ; he also was interested in bringing smallpox prevention directly to the state 's small farming towns .
