George Hutchins Bingham (1864 - 1949)
Born at Littleton (NH); died at Manchester (NH).
Lawyer; state jurist.
Portrait by Harry Bingham Ballou, 1941.
Presented to the State, date unknown.

George H. Bingham was the son of a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, and the grandson of Andrew S. Woods, who had been Chief Justice of the same body. George H. Bingham was himself to become an Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court.

Bingham studied at Littleton (NH) schools, at Holderness (NH) School (1880/1), and at St. Johnsbury (VT) Academy. He entered Dartmouth College in 1883, and graduated with the Class of 1887. Bingham moved on to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1891. In July 1891 Bingham was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar, and he began legal practice with his father, George A. Bingham, at Littleton (NH).

George A. Bingham died in 1895, and his son continued the law practice at Littleton. Soon he moved to Manchester (NH), where he went into law practice with David A. Taggart. The two men were law partners 1989 - 1901, when Bingham was named an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court (served 1902/13).

In 1913 Bingham was named (by President Woodrow Wilson) Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District. At the time of his retirement Bingham was the senior judge on this court.

References: James R. Jackson, History of Littleton (1905); H.H. Metcalf, ed., One Thousand New Hampshire Notables (1919); The Union Leader [newspaper], September 26 and September 28, 1949.