{{Short description|American judge (1799–1874)}} {{more citations needed|date=May 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ira Perley | image = Ira Perley (page 17 crop).jpg | order = | office = Chief Justice of the<br>Superior Court of Judicature | term_start = August 1, 1864 | term_end = September 1869 | predecessor = Samuel Dana Bell | successor = Henry Adams Bellows | office2 = Chief Justice of the<br>Superior Court of Judicature | term_start2 = July 20, 1855 | term_end2 = October 1, 1859 | predecessor2 = Andrew Salter Woods | successor2 = Samuel Dana Bell | appointer2 = Ralph Metcalf<ref name="NYT2027-1874"/> | office3 = Associate Justice of the<br>Superior Court of Judicature | term_start3 = October 1852<ref name="NYT2027-1874"/> | term_end3 = July 1855<ref name="NYT2027-1874"/> | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | appointer3 = Samuel Dinsmoor Jr.<ref name="NYT2027-1874"/> | office4 = Member of the<br>New Hampshire House of Representatives<br>From Hanover, New Hampshire | term_start4 = | term_end4 = | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | office5 = Member of the<br>New Hampshire House of Representatives<br>From Concord, New Hampshire | term_start5 = | term_end5 = | predecessor5 = | successor5 = | birth_date = November 9, 1799 | birth_place = | death_date = February 26, 1874 | death_place = Concord, New Hampshire | party = | spouse = Mary S. Nelson | children = | alma_mater = | profession = Lawyer | signature = }}
'''Ira Perley''' (November 9, 1799 – February 26, 1874) was the chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature 1855–1859 and 1864–1869.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/justices/perley.html|title=Publications - Descriptions of Portraits of Justices and Others at the New Hampshire Supreme Court Building Concord, New Hampshire |author=Russell Bastedo|accessdate=May 29, 2011}}</ref><ref name="NYT2027-1874">{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1874/02/27/79218808.pdf|work=New York Times|date=February 27, 1874|accessdate=May 29, 2011|title=Ex-Chief Justice Perley, Of New-Hampshire}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItSGTqPRE2E | title=Ira Perley, the GOP's first Chief Justice of New Hampshire | website=YouTube | date=9 November 2024 }}</ref>
==Early life == Perley was born November 9, 1799, to Samuel and Phebe (Dresser) Perley.<ref name="HistofBoxpg360">{{Citation | last=Perley|first=Sidney |title =The History of Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts: From the Earliest Settlement Known to the Present Time: a Period of about Two Hundred and Thirty Years | page = 360| publisher=Sidney Perley| location = Boxford, Massachusetts|year =1880}}</ref>
==Career== Perley represented both Hanover and Concord in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.<ref name="HistofBoxpg360"/>
Perley was appointed by Governor Samuel Dinsmoor Jr. as an associate justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in October 1852 and as the chief justice of the Superior Court of Judicature on July 20, 1855<ref name="ManGenCourt375"/> by Governor Ralph Metcalf. Perley resigned from the court on October 1, 1859, he was reappointed as Chief Justice on August 1, 1864,<ref name="ManGenCourt375"/> and he resigned again in September 1869.<ref name="ManGenCourt375">{{Citation | last=Secretary of State |title =Manual for the General Court, No 8 | page = 375| publisher=New Hampshire Secretary of State| location = Concord, New Hampshire|year =1903}}</ref><ref name="NYT2027-1874"/>
Perley was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1866.<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlist American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref> In 1873, Perley was president of the New Hampshire Bar Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nhbar.org/about-the-bar/past-presidents/ |title=Past NHBA Presidents|publisher=New Hampshire Bar Association|access-date=October 5, 2021}}</ref>
Perley died on February 26, 1874, in Concord, New Hampshire.<ref name="HistofBoxpg360"/>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{S-start}} {{s-legal}} {{Succession box|title=Chief Justice of the New Hampshire<br>Superior Court of Judicature |before= Andrew Salter Woods|after=Samuel Dana Bell |years=July 20, 1855-October 1, 1859}} {{Succession box|title=Chief Justice of the New Hampshire<br>Superior Court of Judicature |before=Samuel Dana Bell |after=Henry Adams Bellows |years=August 1, 1864-September 1869}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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