How do judges of the New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Hampshire Supreme Court / Joined 1941 / Served to 1947

Henri Alphonse Burque

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Henri Alphonse Burque was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1879–1947
Tenure: 1941–1947 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Burque authored 57 published opinions for the court (1941–1947), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: North Hampton Racing & Breeding Ass'n v. New Hampshire Racing Commission (19 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1946	North Hampton Racing & Breeding Ass'n v. New Hampshire Racing Commission	48 A.2d 472	19
1942	Dugan v. Manchester Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n	23 A.2d 873	14
1946	State v. Haley	46 A.2d 533	9
1943	MacKelvie v. Rice	32 A.2d 818	8
1941	Hashim v. Chimiklis	21 A.2d 166	8
1944	Leclerc v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America	39 A.2d 763	7
1946	State v. Clapp	46 A.2d 119	6
1944	Glaser v. Medford-Marlboro Knit Gaiter Co.	36 A.2d 280	6
1943	Manor v. Gagnon	32 A.2d 688	6
1943	Ware v. Boston & Maine Railroad	31 A.2d 58	6
1942	Windham v. Jubinville	25 A.2d 415	6
1945	Amoskeag Industries, Inc. v. Board of Mayor of Manchester	41 A.2d 917	5
1945	Blake v. Hickey· Dissent	41 A.2d 707	5
1943	Cleveland v. Reasby	33 A.2d 554	5
1942	Dover v. Standard Accident Insurance	24 A.2d 496	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 58 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Henri Alphonse Burque on?: Henri Alphonse Burque was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

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6 years on the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).