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Walter Harriman was born on April 8, 1817, at Warner, New Hampshire, United States, the son of Benjamin Evans and Hannah (Flanders) Harriman and was descended from Leonard Harriman who emigrated to America from Yorkshire, England, in 1638, and settled at Rowley, Massachusetts.
Walter attended the public schools and Hopkinton Academy.
Walter Harriman began at seventeen to teach school in Warner and continued in this occupation for about seven years, holding positions in Massachusetts and New Jersey, as well as in New Hampshire. He spent ten years in the ministry of the Universalist Church, first at Harvard, Massachusetts, after which he returned to Warner, New Hampshire, in 1845. Becoming interested in business, he left the ministry in 1851 and conducted a general store at Warner in partnership with John S. Pillsbury, afterward governor of Minnesota.
Beginning in 1848, Harriman became an active political worker. In the following ten years he served two terms in the New Hampshire House and one in the Senate (1849, 1858, 1859); two terms as state treasurer (1853-1855); and in 1856 was appointed by President Pierce member of a commission for the classification of Indian lands in Kansas. In the spring of 1861 Harriman became editor and part owner of the Manchester, New Hampshire, Union Democrat, which he renamed the Weekly Union, and gave vigorous and effective support to the war policy of the Lincoln administration, a service of great importance in view of the numerical strength of the Democratic party in the state.
In August 1862 Harriman was commissioned colonel of the 11th Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers and shortly afterward left for Virginia with his command. He took part in the battle of Fredericksburg in December. In 1863 his regiment was moved west and with the exception of a few weeks when he temporarily resigned, he spent the year in various operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, including the siege of Vicksburg. In the spring of 1864 the regiment was again attached to the Army of the Potomac and at the battle of the Wilderness, Harriman was captured while leading an attack on the Confederate lines. He was exchanged a few months later, eventually resumed command of his regiment befor Petersburg, and participated with credit in the closing operations. He took part in the grand review, was honored with a brevet brigadier generalship, and was mustered out June 11, 1865.
While still in the field Harriman had maintained an interest in politics and in 1863 accepted a nomination for the governorship from the War Democrats, diverting sufficient votes to force the election into the legislature, where the Republicans, actually a popular minority, were able to elect the governor. This maneuver gained the lasting gratitude of the Republicans and practically ended his former party affiliations. While on furlough after his release in 1864 he was an active campaigner for the Lincoln ticket in the presidential election. On leaving the army he was immediately elected secretary of state for New Hampshire and served two years, and in 1867 and 1868 he was elected governor after closely contested campaigns.
After the inauguration of Grant, he was appointed and for the next eight years served as naval officer for the port of Boston. Having established a residence in Concord in 1872, he retired to it in 1877 and spent the rest of his life there, serving a single term (1881) as representative in the legislature, but devoting more attention to writing than to active party work. He contributed frequently to various New England newspapers and journals and in 1879 published a History of Warner, New Hampshire, containing in the appendix another historical study: “The Boundaries of New Hampshire. ” His last work was a volume entitled Travels and Observations in the Orient, and a Hasty Flight in the Countries of Europe (1883).
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In politics Harriman was a Democrat with antislavery leanings, but following the Civil War's conclusion in early 1865, Harriman joined the Republican Party and served as the New Hampshire Secretary of State until 1867, when he was elected as the state's governor.
Harriman was a genial and friendly man with a wide circle of friends.
Harriman was twice married. His first wife was Apphia K. Hoyt, to whom he was married in September 1841. After her death he was married, in October 1844, to Almira R. Andrews.
Harriman's son, Walter C. Harriman, was one of the founders of the city of Harriman, Tennessee, which is named for Governor Harriman.
