William Plumer was an American

United States

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 lawyer and Baptist

Baptist

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 lay preacher from Epping, New Hampshire

Epping, New Hampshire

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. Born in 1759 in Newburyport, Massachusetts

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, he represented New Hampshire

New Hampshire

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 as a Federalist in the United States Senate

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 from June 17, 1802 to March 4, 1807. Plumer later became a Democratic-Republican and serve as a Governor of New Hampshire

Governor of New Hampshire

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, 1812–1813 and 1816–1819.

In the 1820 presidential election

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, he cast the only dissenting vote in the Electoral College against incumbent President James Monroe

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, voting instead for John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

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. While some accounts say that this was to ensure that George Washington

George Washington

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 remained the only American president unanimously chosen by the Electoral College, others assert that he was instead calling attention to his friend Adams as a potential future presidential candidate, or protesting against the "wasteful extravagance" of the Monroe Administration. Plumer also eschewed voting for Daniel D. Tompkins

Daniel D. Tompkins

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 for Vice President as "grossly intemperate" and having "not that weight of character which his office requires," and also "because he grossly neglected his duty" in his "only" official role as president of the Senate by being "absent nearly three-fourths of the time." Plumer instead voted for Richard Rush.

In 1803, Plumer was one of several New England Federalists who proposed secession

Secession

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 from the United States due to lack of
support for Federalists, rising influence of Jeffersonian Democrats and the diminished influence of the North due to the Louisiana Purchase

Louisiana Purchase

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.

Plumer was a founder and the first president of the New Hampshire Historical Society. He died in 1850, aged 91, at Epping, New Hampshire

Epping, New Hampshire

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Works[3]

• Vital Godliness, 5 editions - first published in 1864
• Commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 4 editions - first published in 1870
• Studies in the book of Psalms, 3 editions - first published in 1867
• Hints and helps in pastoral theology, 3 editions - first published in 1874
• The grace of Christ, 3 editions - first published in 1853
• Thoughts on the religious instruction of the negroes of this country, 3 editions - first published in 1848
• The Rock of Our Salvation, 3 editions - first published in 1867
• Commentary on the epistle of Paul, the apostle, to the Hebrews, 2 editions - first published in 1872
• Jehovah-jireh, 2 editions - first published in 1867
• The Law Of God As Contained In The Ten Commandments, Explained And Enforced, 2 editions - first published in 2007
• Am I self-deceived?, 1840
• The Bible true, and infidelity wicked, 1840
• The Law of God, 1998
• Psalms, 1975
• Psalms (Geneva), 1978
• Rome against the Bible, 1854
• Young children may be truly pious, 1850
• Scripture doctrine of a call to the work of the gospel ministry, 1832
• Words of truth and love, 1867
• Truths for the people, 1875
• Earnest hours, 1869
• How to bring up children, 1822
• The promises of God, 1872
• The substance of an argument against the indiscriminate incorporation of churches and religious societies, 1847

[3] References:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Plumer%2C%20William%20S.%20%28William%20Swan%29%2C%201802-1880

http://www.librarything.com/author/plumerwilliams

http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86-872581

http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL423915A/William_S._Plumer

External links

• A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825