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Ralph Metcalf NH

Ralph Metcalf (21 November 1796-26 August 1858) was the Know Nothing Governor of New Hampshire from 7 June 1855 to 4 June 1857, succeeding Nathaniel B. Baker and preceding William Haile.

Biography[]

Ralph Metcalf was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire in 1796, and he became a lawyer in 1826, practicing in Binghamton, New York and Claremont, New Hampshire. He worked for the Treasury Department in Washington DC before returning to New Hampshire and practicing law in Plymouth and Newport. He served as Sullivan County probate register in 1845, as an insane asylum trustee, in the State House from 1852 to 1853, and as the Know Nothing Governor from 1855 to 1857 (having previously been a Democratic-Republican and Democrat, and enacting a Prohibition law which was in force from 1855 to 1889). He became a Republican before his death in 1858.

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