Moody Currier

{{short description|American politician (1806–1898)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Moody Currier

|image = Moody Currier, Governor of New Hampshire from State Builders.jpg

|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

|predecessor2 =

|successor2 =

|office3 = President of the
New Hampshire Senate

|term_start3 = 1857

|term_end3 = 1857

|predecessor3 =

|successor3 =

|office4 = Member of the
New Hampshire Senate

|term_start4 = 1856

|term_end4 = 1857

|predecessor4 =

|successor4 =

|birth_date = April 22, 1806

|birth_place = Boscawen, New Hampshire

|mother = Rhoda Putney of Dunbarton, New Hampshire (unmarried)

|father = Moody Putney Sr.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1898|8|23|1806|8|22}}

|death_place = Manchester, New Hampshire

|party = Republican

|otherparty = Democrat, Free Soil Party

|spouse = Lucretia C. Dustin; Mary W. Kidder; Hannah A. Slade

|children =

|alma_mater = Dartmouth College, 1834{{Citation |last=Capace |first=Nancy |title=Encyclopedia of New Hampshire |page=119 |publisher=Somerset Publishers, Inc. |location=Santa Barbara, California |year=2000}}

|profession =

|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.{{Citation |last=Capace |first=Nancy |title =Encyclopedia of New Hampshire |page=120 |publisher=Somerset Publishers, Inc. |location=Santa Barbara, California |year=2000}}

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

Currier ran unsuccessfully in the 1848 Manchester, New Hampshire, mayoral elections.{{cite web |title=ELECTION RESULTS BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN MANCHESTER, NH 1846–2005 |url=https://www.manchesternh.gov/portals/2/departments/city_clerk/archives/Manchester%20election%20results%20from%201846%20-%202005.pdf |website=www.manchesternh.gov |publisher=City Clerk of Manchester, New Hampshire |access-date=July 6, 2021}}

In 1856 to 1857 Currier served in the New Hampshire State Senate serving as President of the Senate in 1857.{{Citation |last=Jenks |first= George E. |title=Political Journal for the State of The New Hampshire 1867 |page=44 |publisher=McFarland and Jenks |location=Concord, New Hampshire |year=1866}} From 1860 to 1861 Currier was on the Governor's Council. Currier served as a fellow at Bates College from 1882 to 1889.[https://books.google.com/books?id=EetJAAAAMAAJ General Catalogue of Bates College and Cobb Divinity School, 1882-1889] by Bates College Lewiston, Me, Me Lewiston, Cobb Divinity School Lewiston, Me, Cobb Divinity School, Bates College (Lewiston, Me.) Cobb divinity school, Me.) Bates College (Lewiston, Published by The College, 1915). 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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