Moody Currier Explained

Moody Currier
Order:40th
Office:Governor of New Hampshire
Term Start:June 4, 1885
Term End:June 2, 1887
Predecessor:Samuel W. Hale
Successor:Charles H. Sawyer
Office2:Member of the
New Hampshire's
Governor's Council
Term Start2:1860
Term End2:1861
Office3:President of the
New Hampshire Senate
Term Start3:1857
Term End3:1857
Office4:Member of the
New Hampshire Senate
Term Start4:1856
Term End4:1857
Birth Date:April 22, 1806
Birth Place:Boscawen, New Hampshire
Mother:Rhoda Putney of Dunbarton, New Hampshire (unmarried)
Father:Moody Putney Sr.
Death Place:Manchester, New Hampshire
Party:Republican
Otherparty:Democrat, Free Soil Party
Spouse:Lucretia C. Dustin; Mary W. Kidder; Hannah A. Slade
Alma Mater:Dartmouth College, 1834
Signature:Signature of Moody Currier.png

Moody Currier (April 22, 1806 – August 23, 1898) was an American lawyer, banker, patron of the arts, and Republican politician from Manchester, New Hampshire.

Moody Currier (Jr.) was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, the son of Rhoda Putney, who was unmarried at his birth. His father was Moody Currier (Sr.) and was never reported to have been involved in his life. Moody Currier Sr. was the son of Dr. John Currier.

Currier married three times: first to Lucretia C. Dustin, then to Mary W. Kidder, and thirdly to Hannah A. Slade.

Currier was the owner and editor of the Manchester Democrat newspaper.

Currier ran unsuccessfully in the 1848 Manchester, New Hampshire, mayoral elections.[1]

In 1856 to 1857 Currier served in the New Hampshire State Senate serving as President of the Senate in 1857. From 1860 to 1861 Currier was on the Governor's Council. Currier served as a fellow at Bates College from 1882 to 1889.[2] He was the 40th governor of New Hampshire from 1885 to 1887.

Manchester's Currier Museum of Art is named after him and was founded based on a bequest in his will and the accompanying efforts of his third wife, Hannah Slade Currier.

Currier died in Manchester in 1898 and is buried in Valley Cemetery in Manchester, New Hampshire.

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  1. Web site: ELECTION RESULTS BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN MANCHESTER, NH 1846–2005 . www.manchesternh.gov . City Clerk of Manchester, New Hampshire . July 6, 2021.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=EetJAAAAMAAJ General Catalogue of Bates College and Cobb Divinity School, 1882-1889