NEW HAMPSHIRE: First in the Nation 7
100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the NEW HAMPSHIRE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
(January 5, 1776), six months before the Declaration of
Independence.
4. e first of the states to sign the July 4, 1776
Declaration of Independence were New Hampshire's
Continental Congress members Josiah Bartlett and
William Whipple.
5. e first of the states to sign the proposed U.S.
Constitution at the Constitutional Convention were
New Hampshire Delegates John Langdon and Nicholas
Gilman (September 17, 1787).
6. e first state to have its electoral votes counted
during the election of our first president and vice-
president, George Washington and John Adams
(Journal of the First U.S. Senate, April 1789).
7. e first state to propose by resolution (June
25, 1831) that the country nominate at a national
convention candidates for president and vice-president
for what is today's Democratic Party. is first national
convention of a present-day political party was held on
May 21, 1832.
Kansas Governor Alf Landon at presidential campaign stop September 28, 1936. Nashua, NH (Opposing President Franklin D.
Roosevelt for a second term).
1940 Republican presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie of New York, center, campaigning with
New Hampshire Governor Styles Bridges, left.
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The first state
where the
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named and
founded at an
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held in
Exeter, New
Hampshire
on May 21,
1853.
