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Joseph Albree Gilmore was born on June 10, 1811, at Weston, Vermont. He was the son of Asa D. and Lucy (Dodge) Gilmore.
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Joseph Albree Gilmore was born on June 10, 1811, at Weston, Vermont. He was the son of Asa D. and Lucy (Dodge) Gilmore.
The death of Gilmore's father deprived him of opportunity for more than a common-school education.
Gilmore became a clerk in Boston, afterward entering business for himself, and in 1842, he moved to Concord, New Hampshire, where he established a wholesale grocery.
In 1848, he became deeply interested in railroad matters and was appointed construction agent of the Concord & Claremont Railroad.
He held his position with the Concord Railroad until failing health obliged him to resign August 11, 1866.
In 1858 and 1859, he was elected to the New Hampshire Senate as a Republican and served as president during his second term.
After the outbreak of the Civil War, he rendered valuable service and support to Gov. Goodwin and Gov. Berry. In 1863, he received the nomination for the governorship, in spite of considerable opposition due to his railroad connections, and after a campaign so close that final choice was made by the legislature, he was elected.
He stated in his message of 1864, following a decisive re-election by popular vote, that when he first took office he was “but a poor politician and no orator” and that he had a popular minority of more than five thousand to remind him that he had yet to gain the confidence of his fellow citizens.
This confidence he proceeded to win by a vigorous and successful attack on the administrative problems created by the war, a policy which caused serious clashes with the legislature but which earned him an honorable place among the war governors.
His experience had been in business rather than in politics and as chief executive he displayed both the merits and defects of his training. His message to the legislature summoned in special session, August 1864, to meet war emergencies, is characteristic.
Bluntly criticizing that body for numerous shortcomings, he denounced the military bill of the preceding session as “crude, incomprehensible, and unsatisfactory, ” and the finance bill as “utterly inadequate. ”
Since he had the support of public opinion and his proposals were, for the most part, sound and feasible, the legislature provided him with most of the authority necessary to carry out his designs.
When his administration came to an end in 1865, his health had already begun to fail, and he was obliged to relinquish further public activity when he retired from office.
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Gilmore was a member of the Whig party but did not hold public office until after that organization had disintegrated.
Quotations: “Throw aside partizan feeling and do your utmost to repair the immense injury which your hasty and injudicious legislation has inflicted on the people of this state. ”
In his personal business affairs, Gilmore was inclined toward speculative ventures and eventually met severe financial losses.
His contemporaries describe him as vigorous, self-confident, and determined, qualities which were indispensable for the conduct of war-time office.
Gilmore had married Ann Page Whipple of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, on July 10, 1832.