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Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/05-22.html">May 22, 1786</a>. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1839-43. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/01-20.html">January 20, 1851</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 243 days</a>). Interment in a private or family graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/samuel-king/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Mowry Jr. (1729-1806) — of Rhode Island. Born in Smithfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1729/08-17.html">August 17, 1729</a>. Member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1766; state court judge in Rhode Island, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Rhode Island</a>, 1780. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/07-06.html">July 6, 1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 323 days</a>). Interment in a private or family graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001052">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408019">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08234">Pocasset Cemetery</a> Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> J. Fred Parker (1856-1927) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Dublin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CH-born.html">Cheshire County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/04-09.html">April 9, 1856</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sos.html">Secretary of state of Rhode Island</a>, 1909-24; resigned 1925. Died in Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/index.html">1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">about 71 years</a>). Interment at Pocasset Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Helen M. Mills.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/87074445">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alpheus F. Angell (1825-1898) — of Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. Born in Johnston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/index.html">1825</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate business</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/RI.html">1876</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>). Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/06-30.html">June 30, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Interment at Pocasset Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Olney Angell and Almira (Fenner) Angell; married to Ruth T. Cooke.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29153457">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04394">St. Ann's Cemetery</a> Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Orlando Pastore (1907-2000) — also known as John O. Pastore — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/03-17.html">March 17, 1907</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1935-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1945; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1945-50; resigned 1950; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/RI.html">1948</a> (chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/RI.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/RI.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/RI.html">1964</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/officers.html">Temporary Chair</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/RI.html">1968</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1950-76. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney failure</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/parkinsons.html">Parkinson's disease</a>, in Scalabrini Villa <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">nursing home</a>, North Kingstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/07-15.html">July 15, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 120 days</a>). Interment at St. Ann's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Michele Pastore and Erminia (Asprinio) Pastore; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/07-12.html">July 12, 1941</a>, to Elena Elizabeth Caito.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000100">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408508">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-orlando-pastore/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/481/000167977">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Vincent Albert Cianci (1941-2016) — also known as Buddy Cianci — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/04-30.html">April 30, 1941</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1975-84, 1991-2002; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1976 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 1976 ; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1980; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">talk show host</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded no contest</a> in 1984 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">beat</a> his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">estranged wife's lover</a> with a fireplace log. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> with twelve federal counts of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a>, conspiracy and racketeering; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in June, 2002 on two counts. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2016/01-28.html">January 28, 2016</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at St. Ann's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan (1991): "He never stopped caring about Providence."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy Cianci">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/157534586">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Vincent Cianci: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312592809/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312592809&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale</a> (2011)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Buddy Cianci: Mike Stanton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375507809/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375507809&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Prince of Providence : The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter H. Reynolds (1901-1987) — also known as Barney Reynolds — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/01-22.html">January 22, 1901</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">Mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1951-65; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/RI.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/RI.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/RI.html">1964</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/04-07.html">April 7, 1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 75 days</a>). Interment at St. Ann's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Bernard Reynolds and Catherine (O'Connell) Reynolds.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter H. Reynolds">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/156275160">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Christopher Del Sesto (1907-1973) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/03-10.html">March 10, 1907</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1959-61; defeated, 1956; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/RI.html">1960</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/12-23.html">December 23, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 288 days</a>). Interment at St. Ann's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/christopher-del-sesto/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/475/000167971">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Edward Fogarty (1913-1967) — also known as John E. Fogarty — of Harmony, Glocester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/03-23.html">March 23, 1913</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1941-44, 1945-67; died in office 1967; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/RI.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/RI.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/RI.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/RI.html">1964</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/01-10.html">January 10, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 293 days</a>). Interment at St. Ann's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000233">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404188">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Henry Needham (1922-2000) — also known as Thomas H. Needham — of Edgewood, Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/06-30.html">June 30, 1922</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1956; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1960; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/RI.html">1972</a>; superior court judge in Rhode Island, 1974-2000. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mil-ord-world-wars.html">Military Order of the World Wars</a>. Judge in the 1982 murder trial of Claus von Bulow. Died in Edgewood, Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/03-26.html">March 26, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 270 days</a>). Interment at St. Ann's Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03529">Knight Cemetery (Cranston Historical Cemetery #21)</a> Knightsville, Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nehemiah Knight (1746-1808) — of Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1746/03-23.html">March 23, 1746</a>. Member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1783; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> at-large, 1803-08; died in office 1808. Slaveowner. Died in Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/06-13.html">June 13, 1808</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 82 days</a>). Interment at Knight Cemetery (Cranston Historical Cemetery #21). <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knight.html#447.18.28">Nehemiah Rice Knight</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#840.46.21">Comfort Star Burlingame</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10543.html">Knight family</a> of Cranston, Rhode Island.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000286">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406443">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehemiah Knight">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12949768">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06957">St. Joseph's Cemetery</a> Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Charles Monaghan (1857-1917) — also known as James C. Monaghan — of Rhode Island; New Jersey. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/10-11.html">October 11, 1857</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">university professor</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html ">Mannheim</a>, 1885-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html ">Chemnitz</a>, 1893-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JM-consuls.html ">Kingston</a>, 1914-17, died in office 1917. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke of apoplexy</a>, in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/11-12.html">November 12, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 32 days</a>). Interment at St. Joseph's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Monaghan and Mary Ann Brown (O'Neill) Monaghan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/06-12.html">June 12, 1892</a>, to Dorothy T. Ryan; nephew by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ryan.html#470.94.27">John Ryan</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44249078">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Ryan — of Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1893-94. Interment at St. Joseph's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Uncle by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monaco-monro.html#763.32.46">James Charles Monaghan</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Little Neck Cemetery</a> East Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island Founded 1655 <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Willett (1605-1674) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Bartley, Hertfordshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1605.html">1605</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1665-66, 1667-68. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1674.html">1674</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">about 69 years</a>). Interment at Little Neck Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. Andrew Willet; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1636.html">1636</a> to Mary Brown; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1671.html">1671</a> to Joanna (Boyse) Prudden; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards7.html#335.52.14">Pierpont Edwards</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#048.03.47">Benjamin Tallmadge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duvall-dworzanski.html#542.62.04">Theodore Dwight</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards4.html#127.62.71">Henry Waggaman Edwards</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#594.74.07">Frederick Augustus Tallmadge</a>; sixth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingham-irelan.html#753.59.22">George Landon Ingraham</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miley-millender.html#392.11.71">Charles Dunsmore Millard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/judge-jyles.html#014.89.41">John Brown Judson Jr.</a>; seventh great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chipp-chmielewski.html#076.74.95">Charles H. Chittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingham-irelan.html#134.09.80">Daniel Phoenix Ingraham</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0065.html">Tallmadge-Floyd family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Willett">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8890542">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04174">Mount St. Mary's Cemetery</a> East Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Bernard Condon (1891-1965) — also known as Francis B. Condon — of Central Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Central Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/11-11.html">November 11, 1891</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1921-26; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1928; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a>, 1930-35 (3rd District 1930-33, 1st District 1933-35); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Rhode Island state supreme court</a>, 1935. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1965/11-23.html">November 23, 1965</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 12 days</a>). Interment at Mount St. Mary's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Denis Gerald Condon and Rose (Collette) Condon; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/09-29.html">September 29, 1926</a>, to Lillian F. Jordan.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000673">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402799">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02287">Old Cemetery</a> Rumford, East Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Phanuel Bishop (1739-1812) — of Massachusetts. Born in Rehoboth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1739/09-03.html">September 3, 1739</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1792-93, 1797-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a>, 1799-1807 (at-large 1799-1805, 9th District 1805-07). Died in Rehoboth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-died.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/01-06.html">January 6, 1812</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 125 days</a>). Interment at Old Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000488">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401469">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06032">Glocester Public Cemetery</a> Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Owen — of Glocester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/dpgv.html">Deputy Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1786-90. Interment at Glocester Public Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00439">Acotes Hill Cemetery</a> Chepachet, Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Warren Otis Arnold (1839-1910) — also known as Warren O. Arnold — of Chepachet, Glocester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Coventry, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/06-03.html">June 3, 1839</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">manufacturer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/RI.html">1884</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1887-91, 1895-97. Died in Westerly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/04-01.html">April 1, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 302 days</a>). Interment at Acotes Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000298">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400940">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter A. Read (1842-1918) — of Rhode Island. Born in Blackstone, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/07-06.html">July 6, 1842</a>. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1889-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/trea.html">Rhode Island general treasurer</a>, 1899-1908. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/index.html">1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</a>). Interment at Acotes Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Charlotte Owen.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/25165594">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Slatersville Cemetery</a> Slatersville, North Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elisha Bartlett (1804-1855) — of Lowell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Born in Smithfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/10-06.html">October 6, 1804</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/lowell.html">mayor of Lowell, Mass.</a>, 1836-38. Died in Smithfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/07-19.html">July 19, 1855</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 286 days</a>). Interment at Slatersville Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Otis Bartlett and Wait (Buffum) Bartlett; married to Elizabeth Slater.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "When the ear heard him, then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, it gave witness to him."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha Bartlett">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/74292263">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07013">Unknown Location</a> Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John J. Healey (died c.1973) — also known as Jack Healey — of Central Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/centralfalls.html">Mayor of Central Falls, R.I.</a>, 1935-46. Died about 1973. Interment somewhere. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07932">Mineral Spring Cemetery</a> Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Bliss (1811-1876) — of Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/10-10.html">October 10, 1811</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coal-ice-fuel.html">Coal</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber</a> dealer; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1850; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1850. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/01-20.html">January 20, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 102 days</a>). Interment at Mineral Spring Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Bliss and Elizabeth (Blake) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/06-25.html">June 25, 1840</a>, to Lydia Manton Jenks; father of Frank Manton Bliss; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blight-block.html#060.12.86">Harvey Carpenter Bliss</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blight-block.html#447.97.16">Brooks Mason Bliss Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saal-sacket.html#006.76.40">Jedediah Sabin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blight-block.html#876.29.14">Cornelius Newton Bliss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#469.63.20">Daniel Parrish Witter</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19648701">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04823">Mount St. Mary's Cemetery</a> 661 Prospect Street Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=245874&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Henry Higgins (1876-1927) — also known as James H. Higgins; "Boy Mayor of Pawtucket" — of Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Saylesville, Lincoln, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/01-22.html">January 22, 1876</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1902; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/pawtucket.html">mayor of Pawtucket, R.I.</a>, 1903-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1907-09; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/RI.html">1916</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>); candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">First</a> Catholic governor of Rhode Island. Died in Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/09-16.html">September 16, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 237 days</a>). Interment at Mount St. Mary's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas F. Higgins and Elizabeth Ann (Mather) Higgins; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/11-17.html">November 17, 1908</a>, to Ellen Frances Maguire.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-henry-higgins/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James H. Higgins">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7253996">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03141">Notre Dame Cemetery</a> Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Louis Monast (1863-1936) — of Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-born.html">Quebec</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/07-01.html">July 1, 1863</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1909-11; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/RI.html">1924</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 3rd District, 1927-29; defeated, 1924, 1928. Died in Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/04-16.html">April 16, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 290 days</a>). Interment at Notre Dame Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000850">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407823">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Beaucage (1893-1951) — of Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Central Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/04-20.html">April 20, 1893</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1933-51. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/11-04.html">November 4, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 198 days</a>). Interment at Notre Dame Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05894">Riverside Cemetery</a> Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John William Davis (1826-1907) — also known as John W. Davis — of Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Rehoboth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/03-07.html">March 7, 1826</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/grain.html">Grain trade</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/RI.html">1884</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/RI.html">1892</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/RI.html">1900</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1885-86, 1893; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1887-88, 1890-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/pawtucket.html">mayor of Pawtucket, R.I.</a>, 1897. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/01-26.html">January 26, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 325 days</a>). Interment at Riverside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-william-davis/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01852">St. Francis Cemetery</a> Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/348/49.43.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="J. Howard McGrath"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Howard McGrath (1903-1966) — also known as J. Howard McGrath — of Central Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Narragansett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, R.I.; South Kingstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, R.I. Born in Woonsocket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/11-28.html">November 28, 1903</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance</a> business; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/RI.html">vice-chair of Rhode Island Democratic Party</a>, 1928-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/RI.html">Rhode Island Democratic state chair</a>, 1930-34; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/RI.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/RI.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/RI.html">1944</a> (chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>; member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/RI.html">1948</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/RI.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/RI.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/RI.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island</a>, 1934-40; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1941-45; resigned 1945; U.S. Solicitor General, 1945-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1947-49; defeated in primary, 1960; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/index.html">Chairman of Democratic National Committee</a>, 1947-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1949-52. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/friendly-sons-st-patrick.html">Friendly Sons of St. Patrick</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/anc-ord-hibernians.html">Ancient Order of Hibernians</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/urban-league.html">Urban League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/foresters.html">Foresters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arcanum.html">Royal Arcanum</a>. Died, apparently of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Narragansett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/09-02.html">September 2, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 278 days</a>). Interment at St. Francis Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James J. McGrath and Ida (May) McGrath; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/11-28.html">November 28, 1929</a>, to Estelle A. Cadorette (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#107.03.94">Joseph Cadorette</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000456">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407455">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-howard-mcgrath/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J. Howard McGrath">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/339/000167835">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Who's Who in United States Politics (1950)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edwin Daniel McGuiness (1856-1901) — also known as Edwin D. McGuiness — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/05-17.html">May 17, 1856</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Rhode Island</a>, 1887-88, 1890-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1896-98; defeated, 1893. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/04-21.html">April 21, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 339 days</a>). Interment at St. Francis Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Mary (Higgins) McGuiness and Bernard McGuiness; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/11-22.html">November 22, 1881</a>, to Ellen Theresa Noonan.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin D. McGuiness">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13895762">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Edward Dunne (b. 1882) — also known as James E. Dunne — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/10-03.html">October 3, 1882</a>. Democrat. Owner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">grocery stores</a>; in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/chemical.html">chemical</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">oil</a> business; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/RI.html">Rhode Island Democratic state chair</a>, 1922-25; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/RI.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/RI.html">1936</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1927-39. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-union-vets.html">Sons of Union Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/exchange-club.html">Exchange Club</a>. Interment at St. Francis Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Dunne and Mary Ellen (Reed) Dunne; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/09-18.html">September 18, 1908</a>, to Genevieve Rita Rawdon.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Anthony Notte Jr. (1909-1983) — also known as John A. Notte, Jr. — of North Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/05-03.html">May 3, 1909</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; secretary to U.S. Senator <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/green8.html#138.62.10">Theodore F. Green</a>, 1947-56; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Rhode Island</a>, 1957-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1959-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/RI.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1961-63; defeated, 1962; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1967. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-phi-delta.html">Alpha Phi Delta</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1983/03-07.html">March 7, 1983</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 308 days</a>). Interment at St. Francis Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Anthony Notte and Eva Theresa (Rondina) Notte; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/">1934</a> to Marie Joan Huerth.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-a-notte/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/473/000167969">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jeremiah Edward O'Connell (1883-1964) — also known as Jeremiah E. O'Connell — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Wakefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/07-08.html">July 8, 1883</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 3rd District, 1923-27, 1929-30; state court judge in Rhode Island, 1930-48; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Rhode Island state supreme court</a>, 1948-56; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/beta-theta-pi.html">Beta Theta Pi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/09-18.html">September 18, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 72 days</a>). Interment at St. Francis Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Jeremiah O'Connell and Margaret R. (Lynch) O'Connell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/06-06.html">June 6, 1910</a>, to Esther Garraty.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000023">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408271">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Francis O'Shaunessy (1868-1934) — also known as George F. O'Shaunessy — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Galway, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/05-01.html">May 1, 1868</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1909; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1911-19; defeated, 1922; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1918. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/11-28.html">November 28, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 211 days</a>). Interment at St. Francis Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Stephen O'Shaunessy and Margaret (Flynn) O'Shaunessy; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/06-24.html">June 24, 1902</a>, to Julien M. Keily.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000117">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408309">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Francis Risk (1897-1943) — also known as Charles F. Risk — of Saylesville, Lincoln, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/index.html">1897</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1935-37, 1939-41; defeated, 1940. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/index.html">1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">about 46 years</a>). Interment at St. Francis Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000269">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409243">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Harry Sandager (1887-1955) — of Auburn, Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/04-12.html">April 12, 1887</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autodealer.html">automobile dealer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1928-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1939-41; defeated, 1940, 1942; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/RI.html">Republican National Committee from Rhode Island</a>, 1941-44; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/RI.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/RI.html">1952</a> (alternate). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-phi-epsilon.html">Delta Phi Epsilon</a>. Died in Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/12-24.html">December 24, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 256 days</a>). Interment at St. Francis Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Maurice Sandager and Louise (Larssen) Sandager.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000031">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409549">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8411825409/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/301/89.58.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="James G. Connolly"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Greenan Connolly (b. 1886) — also known as James G. Connolly — of Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in River Point, West Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/03-28.html">March 28, 1886</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/RI.html">1920</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1929-33. Interment at St. Francis Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Rhode Island Manual 1931</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Charles Pelkey (1881-1944) — also known as William C. Pelkey — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-born.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/10-02.html">October 2, 1881</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/RI.html">Rhode Island Republican state chair</a>, 1925-31. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/08-21.html">August 21, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 324 days</a>). Interment at St. Francis Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Chestnut and Broad Streets</a> Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Arthur Doyle (1827-1886) — also known as Thomas A. Doyle — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/03-15.html">March 15, 1827</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">Mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1864-69, 1870-81, 1884-86; died in office 1886. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/06-09.html">June 9, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 86 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms00375">Swan Point Cemetery</a>; statue at Chestnut and Broad Streets. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Doyle and Martha (Jones) Doyle; married to Almyra Sprague.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas A. Doyle (mayor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/129846367">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02724">Common Burial Ground</a> Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Dutee Jerauld Pearce (1789-1849) — also known as Dutee J. Pearce — of Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-lived.html">Newport County</a>, R.I. Born in Prudence, Portsmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/04-03.html">April 3, 1789</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1810; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/attygn.html">Rhode Island state attorney general</a>, 1819-25; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island</a>, 1824-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> at-large, 1825-37; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1840/RI.html">1840</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Died in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-died.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/05-09.html">May 9, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 36 days</a>). Interment at Common Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Pearce and Hannah (Jerrauld) Pearce; married to Abigail Perry and Harriet Boss.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000160">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408565">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutee Jerauld Pearce">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7130866">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02177">Grace Church Cemetery</a> Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nehemiah Rice Knight (1780-1854) — also known as Nehemiah R. Knight — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/12-31.html">December 31, 1780</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1802; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1817-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1821-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Rhode Island state constitutional convention</a>, 1843. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/04-18.html">April 18, 1854</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 108 days</a>). Interment at Grace Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knight.html#345.87.01">Nehemiah Knight</a> and Eleanor (Hudson) Knight; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/07-21.html">July 21, 1799</a>, to Lydia Waterman; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#840.46.21">Comfort Star Burlingame</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10543.html">Knight family</a> of Cranston, Rhode Island.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000287">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406444">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/nehemiah-rice-knight/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehemiah R. Knight">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7254011">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Collins Greene (1791-1863) — also known as Albert C. Greene — of East Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. Born in East Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/04-15.html">April 15, 1791</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1820; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1821, 1821-22, 1822-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1845-51. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/01-08.html">January 8, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 268 days</a>). Interment at Grace Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Elizabeth (Belcher) Greene and Perry M. Greene; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/05-16.html">May 16, 1814</a>, to Catherine Celia Greene; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/08-22.html">August 22, 1841</a>, to Julia Bourne (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boude-bowe.html#960.52.05">Benjamin Bourne</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#540.05.68">George Washington Greene</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#035.68.72">William Maxwell Greene</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#459.87.70">William Greene</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#245.04.04">William Greene Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ray.html#734.86.29">Ossian Ray</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#102.01.36">Clement Phineas Kellogg</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#935.22.52">Ray Greene</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baldwin.html#892.31.86">John Baldwin</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0320.html">Houghton family</a> of Corning, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0051.html">Upham family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000424">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404771">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7254016">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00392">North Burial Ground</a> between Branch Ave. and N. Main St. Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1977 <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Hopkins (1707-1785) — of Scituate, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1707/03-07.html">March 7, 1707</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/depu.html">Rhode Island house of deputies</a>, 1732-52; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/dspkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Deputies</a>, 1738-39, 1739-40, 1741, 1741, 1742-43, 1744, 1749; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1755-57, 1758-62, 1763-65, 1767-68; member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1770-75; state court judge in Rhode Island, 1773; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Rhode Island</a>, 1774-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/07-13.html">July 13, 1785</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 128 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000781">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405631">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen Hopkins %28politician%29">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Fenner (1771-1846) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/01-22.html">January 22, 1771</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1805-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1807-11, 1824-31, 1843-45; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Rhode Island state constitutional convention</a>, 1842. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/04-17.html">April 17, 1846</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 85 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fendall-fent.html#325.59.44">Arthur Fenner</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MA-names.html">Fenner, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000074">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404032">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-fenner/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arthur Fenner (1745-1805) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1745/12-10.html">December 10, 1745</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1790-1805; died in office 1805; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/10-15.html">October 15, 1805</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 309 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fendall-fent.html#707.84.58">James Fenner</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/arthur-fenner/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Philip Allen (1785-1865) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/09-01.html">September 1, 1785</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1819-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1851-53; resigned 1853; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1853-59. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/12-16.html">December 16, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 106 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Capt. Zachariah Allen and Nancy (Crawford) Allen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/">1814</a> to Phoebe Aborn.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000141">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400797">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/phillip-allen/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip Allen (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6844368">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Willard Bridgham (1774-1840) — also known as Samuel W. Bridgham — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Rehoboth (part now in Seekonk), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/05-04.html">May 4, 1774</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1810; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1826; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1832-40; died in office 1840. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/12-28.html">December 28, 1840</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 238 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Dr. Joseph Bridgham and Martha Bridgham; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/">1798</a> to Elizabeth Paine.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "First Mayor of the City of Providence."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel W. Bridgham">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11630013">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Howell (1747-1824) — of Rhode Island. Born in Morristown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MR-born.html">Morris County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1747/01-01.html">January 1, 1747</a>. State court judge in Rhode Island, 1780; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Rhode Island</a>, 1782-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Rhode Island state supreme court</a>, 1786; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/attygn.html">Rhode Island state attorney general</a>, 1789; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island</a>, 1801-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judicial.html#z">federal judge</a>, 1812. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/07-21.html">July 21, 1824</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 202 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howell.html#132.16.14">Jeremiah Brown Howell</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000859">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405706">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jeremiah Brown Howell (1771-1822) — of Rhode Island. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/08-28.html">August 28, 1771</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1811-17. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/02-05.html">February 5, 1822</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 161 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howell.html#760.93.05">David Howell</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000865">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405712">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Mackie Burgess (1806-1856) — also known as Thomas M. Burgess — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/06-06.html">June 6, 1806</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">Mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1841-52. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/10-17.html">October 17, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 133 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Burgess and Mary (Mackie) Burgess; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/">1831</a> to Elizabeth 'Eliza' Howard; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#254.13.39">James Scollay Whitney</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#917.57.79">Henry Melville Whitney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#394.15.27">William Collins Whitney</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nuckles-nyquist.html#461.69.89">Bartlett Nye</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faye-fehr.html#768.31.38">Paul Fearing</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nuckles-nyquist.html#842.14.78">Hezekiah Nye</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nuckles-nyquist.html#149.22.49">Thomas Nye</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#195.47.82">Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#088.33.60">John Hay Whitney</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nuckles-nyquist.html#956.29.60">Asa Russell Nye</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0137.html">Morton family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0489.html">Bolton-Whitney-Brainard-Wolcott family</a> of Ohio and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0228.html">Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay family</a> of Massachusetts (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas M. Burgess">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29116540">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Brown Francis (1791-1864) — of Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/05-31.html">May 31, 1791</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1821; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1831, 1845-56; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1833-38; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1840/RI.html">1840</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1844-45. Died in Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/08-09.html">August 9, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 70 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Francis and Abigail (Brown) Francis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/">1822</a> to Anne Carter Brown; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/">1832</a> to Elizabeth (Francis) Harrison; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#096.57.01">Thomas Willing</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#921.55.52">Charles Willing</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#419.18.44">Edward Shippen (1703-1781)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#157.96.59">William Shippen</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#860.88.84">Edward Shippen (1639-1712)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#393.56.68">Edward Shippen (1729-1806)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#190.80.45">Francis Fisher Kane</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html#692.95.14">Edward Overton Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdougal-maciora.html#242.35.83">James Rieman Macfarlane</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#461.40.05">Edward Shippen (1823-1904)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irvine-irving.html#734.69.01">Bertha Shippen Irving</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#793.53.13">John Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#151.29.74">Jane Pierce</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000336">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404285">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-brown-francis/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Brown Francis">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jonathan Chace (1829-1917) — of Valley Falls, Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Fall River, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/07-22.html">July 22, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1876-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1881-85; resigned 1885; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1885-89; resigned 1889. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/06-30.html">June 30, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 343 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000267">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402410">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Hopkins Clarke (1789-1870) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-born.html">Union County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/04-01.html">April 1, 1789</a>. Member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1820; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1847-53. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/11-23.html">November 23, 1870</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 236 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000466">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402604">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Augustus Samuel Miller (1847-1905) — also known as Augustus S. Miller — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Plainfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/WI-born.html">Windham County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/08-13.html">August 13, 1847</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1889-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1903-05; died in office 1905. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/09-26.html">September 26, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 44 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Simon Williams Miller and Ann (Lawton) Miller; married to Elizabeth LeMoine Davis.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus S. Miller">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11629688">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Manning (1738-1791) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-born.html">Union County</a>), N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1738/10-22.html">October 22, 1738</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Rhode Island</a>, 1786. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/univfound.html">Co-founder</a>, in 1764, of Rhode Island College (now Brown University). Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/07-29.html">July 29, 1791</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 280 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS James Manning (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-names.html">South Portland, Maine</a>; scrapped 1961) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000108">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407132">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Tristam Burges (1770-1853) — of Rhode Island. Born in Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/PL-born.html">Plymouth County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1770/02-26.html">February 26, 1770</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1811; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Rhode Island state supreme court</a>, 1815; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> at-large, 1825-35; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1836. Died in East Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/10-13.html">October 13, 1853</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 229 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/green8.html#138.62.10">Theodore Francis Green</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0257.html">Arnold family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001082">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402028">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=147864&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2028633"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/790/98.41.jpg" width=70 height=89 border=0 alt="Horace Mann"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Horace Mann (1796-1859) — also known as "The Father of American Public Education" — of Dedham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-lived.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass.; Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Franklin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/05-04.html">May 4, 1796</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1827-33; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1833-37; secretary, Massachusetts Board of Education, 1837-48; founder and editor of The Common School Journal; became a national leader in improving and reforming public schools; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 8th District, 1848-53; Free Soil candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">professor</a> at Antioch College, 1852-59. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1900. Died in Yellow Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-died.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/08-02.html">August 2, 1859</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 90 days</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-buried.html# ">somewhere</a> in Yellow Springs, Ohio; reinterment at North Burial Ground; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-buried.html# ">State House Grounds</a>, Boston, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/">1830</a> to Charlotte Messer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/05-01.html">May 1, 1843</a>, to Mary Tyler Peabody (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hawks-hawthorne.html#405.21.23">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0894.html">Deming family</a> of Maryland and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Horace Mann (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scrapped 1970) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000102">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407126">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Mann">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/578/000050428">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/664">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: U.S. postage stamp (1940)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Jackson (1797-1876) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/03-04.html">March 4, 1797</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1841-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1845-46. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/01-21.html">January 21, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 323 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-jackson/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Peck Knowles (1805-1881) — also known as Edward P. Knowles — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/04-13.html">April 13, 1805</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">Mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1854-55. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/10-16.html">October 16, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 186 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Knowles and Amey (Peck) Knowles; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/">1827</a> to Mary Flagg Fry; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/">1860</a> to Alice Smith Randall.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward P. Knowles">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29676021">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Welcome Arnold (1745-1798) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1745/03-24.html">March 24, 1745</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/dspkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Deputies</a>, 1780, 1790-91, 1793, 1793-95. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/09-29.html">September 29, 1798</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 189 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Jonathan Arnold and Abigail (Smith) Arnold; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1773/02-11.html">February 11, 1773</a>, to Patience Greene.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19109657">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Jackson Jr. (1764-1838) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/07-03.html">July 3, 1764</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a>, 1808, 1809-15 (at-large 1808, 1st District 1809-11, at-large 1811-15). Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/04-18.html">April 18, 1838</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 289 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000025">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405931">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15552097">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Leonard Tillinghast (1791-1844) — also known as Joseph L. Tillinghast — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/index.html">1791</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1820; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1829-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> at-large, 1837-43. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/index.html">1844</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">about 53 years</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/till-tillinghaust.html#541.99.10">Thomas Tillinghast</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000272">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410845">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Brown Mason (1775-1819) — also known as James B. Mason — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1775/index.html">1775</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1810; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1812-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> at-large, 1815-19. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/index.html">1819</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">about 44 years</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000215">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407233">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Brown (1736-1803) — of Rhode Island. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1736/01-27.html">January 27, 1736</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1782-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> at-large, 1799-1801. Slaveowner. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/09-20.html">September 20, 1803</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 236 days</a>). Interment at North Burial Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Browne and Hope (Power) Browne; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#880.81.46">Benjamin Brown</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/francis.html#112.89.40">John Brown Francis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#793.53.13">John Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#151.29.74">Jane Pierce</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#469.63.20">Daniel Parrish Witter</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#009.95.38">Arthur Taggard Appleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#276.56.23">William Sprague (1799-1856)</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#115.12.91">William Sprague (1830-1915)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000927">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401882">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Brown (Rhode Island)">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01747">North End Cemetery</a> Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Fowler Simmons (1795-1864) — also known as James F. Simmons — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/index.html">1795</a>. Delegate to Whig National Convention from Rhode Island, 1839 (member, Balloting Committee; member, Committee to Notify Nominees); member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1830; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1841-47, 1857-62; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/RI.html">1860</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/index.html">1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">about 69 years</a>). Interment at North End Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000417">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409911">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Eddy (1769-1839) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Johnston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1769/03-31.html">March 31, 1769</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> at-large, 1819-25. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/02-03.html">February 3, 1839</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 309 days</a>). Interment at North End Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000040">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403735">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00375">Swan Point Cemetery</a> 585 Blackstone Blvd. Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island Founded 1846 Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1977 <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Winthrop Williams Aldrich (1885-1974) — also known as Winthrop W. Aldrich — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/11-02.html">November 2, 1885</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; president, Equitable <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Trust Company</a>, 1929; president, Chase National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>, 1930-34; chairman, 1934-53; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1953-57. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-bankers-assoc.html">American Bankers Association</a>. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1974/02-25.html">February 25, 1974</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 115 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#433.61.94">Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich</a> and Abby Pierce (Chapman) Aldrich; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#166.20.70">Richard Steere Aldrich</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/12-07.html">December 7, 1916</a>, to Harriet Crocker Alexander (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexander.html#046.49.95">Charles Beatty Alexander</a>; sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitehouse.html#886.50.99">Sheldon Whitehouse</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crocker.html#513.87.48">Charles Crocker</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#729.26.37">Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#983.75.07">Winthrop Rockefeller</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#146.48.91">John Davison Rockefeller IV</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#191.28.19">Winthrop Paul Rockefeller</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0285.html">Crocker-Whitehouse family</a> of Sacramento, California (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winthrop W. Aldrich">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/aldrich-winthrop-williams">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/268/000128881">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7254298">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=120682">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Bowen Anthony (1815-1884) — also known as Henry B. Anthony — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Coventry, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/04-01.html">April 1, 1815</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1849-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1859-84; died in office 1884. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/09-02.html">September 2, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 154 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Anthony and Eliza (Greene) Anthony; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/10-16.html">October 16, 1837</a>, to Sarah Aborn.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/andridge-anstine.html#693.20.64">James B. Angell</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000262">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400900">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/henry-bowen-anthony/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry B. Anthony">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6844441">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Arthur Doyle (1827-1886) — also known as Thomas A. Doyle — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/03-15.html">March 15, 1827</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">Mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1864-69, 1870-81, 1884-86; died in office 1886. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/06-09.html">June 9, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 86 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery; statue at <a href="# ">Chestnut and Broad Streets</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Doyle and Martha (Jones) Doyle; married to Almyra Sprague.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas A. Doyle (mayor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/129846367">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Theodore Francis Green (1867-1966) — also known as Theodore F. Green — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/10-02.html">October 2, 1867</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1907-08; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/RI.html">1912</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/RI.html">1916</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/officers.html">Honorary Vice-President</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/RI.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/RI.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/RI.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/RI.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>; member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/RI.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/RI.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/RI.html">1960</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a>, 1918; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1933-37; defeated, 1912, 1928, 1930; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/RI.html">Democratic National Committee from Rhode Island</a>, 1936-40; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1937-61. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-arbitration-assoc.html">American Arbitration Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/psi-upsilon.html">Psi Upsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/05-19.html">May 19, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/98.html">98 years, 229 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Arnold Green and Cornelia Abby (Burges) Green; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnold.html#771.75.77">Samuel Greene Arnold</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burrage-burrowes.html#683.54.36">James Burrill Jr.</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burditt-burges.html#260.53.76">Tristam Burges</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnold.html#451.29.36">Lemuel Hastings Arnold</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnold.html#232.51.64">Jonathan Arnold</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0257.html">Arnold family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/norval-nova.html#784.51.93">John A. Notte, Jr.</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000418">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404766">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/theodore-francis-green/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore F. Green">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/474/000167970">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009003326/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/433/61.94.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Nelson W. Aldrich"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (1841-1915) — also known as Nelson W. Aldrich; "General Manager of the United States" — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. Born in Foster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/11-06.html">November 6, 1841</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">grocer</a>; director, Roger Williams <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>; president, First National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> of Providence; trustee, Providence, Hartford and Fishkill <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; organizer and president, United <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/streetcars.html">Traction</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Electric</a> Company; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1875-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1876-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1879-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1881-1911; author of Aldrich-Vreeland Currency Act and Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">apoplectic stroke</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/04-16.html">April 16, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 161 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Anan Evans Aldrich and Abby Ann (Burgess) Aldrich; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/10-09.html">October 9, 1866</a>, to Abby Pearce Truman Chapman; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#166.20.70">Richard Steere Aldrich</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#812.13.78">Winthrop Williams Aldrich</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#729.26.37">Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#983.75.07">Winthrop Rockefeller</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#146.48.91">John Davison Rockefeller IV</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#191.28.19">Winthrop Paul Rockefeller</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Aldrich Hall (built 1953), at the Harvard <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> Business School, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-names.html">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000083">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400742">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson W. Aldrich">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/784/000082538">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1080605">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6844465">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=163272">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881) — also known as Ambrose E. Burnside — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Liberty, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/UN-born.html">Union County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/05-23.html">May 23, 1824</a>. Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1866-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1875-81; died in office 1881. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nra.html">National Rifle Association</a>. Died in Bristol, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/BR-died.html">Bristol County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/09-13.html">September 13, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 113 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edghill Burnside and Pamela (Brown) Burnside.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Politician named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stephens.html#504.60.57">A. E. B. Stephens</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001130">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402074">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/ambrose-everett-burnside/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/587/000028503">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Sprague (1830-1915) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Narragansett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, R.I. Born in Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/09-12.html">September 12, 1830</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1860-63; resigned 1863; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1863-75. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">meningitis</a>, in Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/09-11.html">September 11, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 364 days</a>). Entombed at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Amasa Sprague and Fanny Francis (Morgan) Sprague; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/11-12.html">November 12, 1863</a>, to Katherine Jane 'Kate' Chase (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chase.html#050.48.29">Salmon Portland Chase</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/03-08.html">March 8, 1883</a>, to Dora Inez Calvert; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#276.56.23">William Sprague (1799-1856)</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#837.04.94">Charles Arthur Sprague</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coker-coldwell.html#043.04.49">Justin E. Colburn</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000747">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410216">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-sprague/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Sprague IV">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6004305">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Theodore Foster (1752-1828) — of Rhode Island. Born in Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1752/04-29.html">April 29, 1752</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1776, 1812-16; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1790-1803. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/01-13.html">January 13, 1828</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 259 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foster.html#629.52.99">Dwight Foster (1757-1823)</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foster.html#512.75.62">Alfred Dwight Foster</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foster.html#792.24.93">Dwight Foster (1828-1884)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0138.html">Foster-Baldwin family</a> of Brookfield, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-names.html">Foster, Rhode Island</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000313">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404262">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore Foster">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jesse Houghton Metcalf (1860-1942) — also known as Jesse H. Metcalf — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/11-16.html">November 16, 1860</a>. President of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">woolen manufacturing</a> company; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/RI.html">1888</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1889-91, 1907; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1924-37; defeated (Republican), 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/RI.html">1928</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/RI.html">Republican National Committee from Rhode Island</a>, 1935-40. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/10-09.html">October 9, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 327 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Harriet Deshon Thurston and Lydia Dexter Sharpe; father of Cornelia Metcalf (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bondurant-boog.html#937.20.41">Frederic Holdrege Bontecou</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0047.html">Blodgett-Whedon family</a> of Killingworth, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Jesse H. Metcalf (built 1943-44 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-names.html">Providence, Rhode Island</a>; scrapped 1971) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000670">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407655">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse H. Metcalf">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7254352">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Youngs Smith (1809-1876) — also known as James Y. Smith — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Poquonock Bridge, Groton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/09-15.html">September 15, 1809</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1855-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1863-66; defeated, 1861. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/03-26.html">March 26, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 193 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Amos D. Smith and Priscilla (Mitchell) Smith; married to Emily Brown.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-youngs-smith/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Y. Smith">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19255268">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elisha Dyer Jr. (1839-1906) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/11-29.html">November 29, 1839</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/chemical.html">Chemist</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1877; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1882; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of Rhode Island</a>, 1882-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1897-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1906; died in office 1906. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/zeta-psi.html">Zeta Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/11-29.html">November 29, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyer.html#574.71.96">Elisha Dyer</a> and Anna Jones (Hoppin) Dyer; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/">1862</a> to Nancy Anthony Viall; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyer.html#668.02.78">Walter Gurnee Dyer</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones9.html#371.78.11">William Jones</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkinson-hormann.html#544.37.14">William Warner Hoppin</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#083.03.95">Peter Rawson Taft</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#643.28.78">Denwood Lynn Chapin</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#366.03.29">Alphonso Taft</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0194.html">Davis family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0260.html">Adams-Rusling family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/elisha-dyer-jr/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha Dyer Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3266">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Jones (1753-1822) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1753/10-08.html">October 8, 1753</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; justice of the peace; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1809-10, 1810-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1811-17. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/welsh.html">Welsh</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-antiquarian-soc.html">American Antiquarian Society</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/04-09.html">April 9, 1822</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 183 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Jones and Elizabeth (Pearce) Jones; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1787/02-28.html">February 28, 1787</a>, to Anne Dunn; grandfather of Anna Jones Hoppin (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyer.html#574.71.96">Elisha Dyer</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyer.html#944.94.91">Elisha Dyer Jr.</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyer.html#668.02.78">Walter Gurnee Dyer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-jones/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Jones (governor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3268">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Sprague (1799-1856) — of Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. Born in Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/11-03.html">November 3, 1799</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1832-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> at-large, 1835-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1838-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1842-44; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/10-19.html">October 19, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 351 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Anna (Potter) Sprague and William Sprague (1773-1836); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/12-23.html">December 23, 1821</a>, to Mary Waterman; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#115.12.91">William Sprague (1830-1915)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#837.04.94">Charles Arthur Sprague</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000746">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410214">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-sprague-2/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Sprague III">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5561">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Tillinghast James (1805-1862) — also known as Charles T. James — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in West Greenwich Center, West Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/09-15.html">September 15, 1805</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1851-57. Died of wounds that he received from the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">accidental</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">explosion</a> of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">cannon shell</a> of his own manufacture, with which he was experimenting, at Sag Harbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/10-17.html">October 17, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 32 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000046">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405951">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Warren Lippitt (1846-1924) — also known as Charles W. Lippitt — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/10-08.html">October 8, 1846</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">Manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1895-97; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/index.html">1896</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/04-04.html">April 4, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 179 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#419.50.51">Henry Lippitt</a> and Mary Ann (Balch) Lippitt; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#501.17.19">Henry Frederick Lippitt</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/02-23.html">February 23, 1886</a>, to Margaret Barbara Farnum; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#777.19.64">Frederick Lippitt</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#459.90.46">John Lester Hubbard Chafee</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#629.59.00">Lincoln Davenport Chafee</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#459.87.70">William Greene</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#826.12.66">Andrew Clark Lippitt</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#245.04.04">William Greene Jr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#187.29.61">Costello Lippitt</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#935.22.52">Ray Greene</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#092.85.97">Dennison Franklin Holden</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0320.html">Houghton family</a> of Corning, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0051.html">Upham family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-warren-lippitt/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22519478">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=36921">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8412924986/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/894/50.13.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Norman S. Case"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Norman Stanley Case (1888-1967) — also known as Norman S. Case — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Narragansett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/10-11.html">October 11, 1888</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island</a>, 1921-26; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1927-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1928-33; defeated, 1932; member, Federal Communications Commission, 1934-45. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-upsilon.html">Delta Upsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Wakefield, South Kingstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/10-09.html">October 9, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 363 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Warren Case and Louise Marea (White) Case; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/06-28.html">June 28, 1916</a>, to Emma Louise Arnold.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/norman-stanley-case/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Rhode Island Manual 1931</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lemuel Hastings Arnold (1792-1852) — also known as Lemuel H. Arnold — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in St. Johnsbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/CA-born.html">Caledonia County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/01-29.html">January 29, 1792</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1826; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1831-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1845-47. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/06-27.html">June 27, 1852</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 150 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnold.html#232.51.64">Jonathan Arnold</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis6.html#400.03.94">Noah Davis</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/green8.html#138.62.10">Theodore Francis Green</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0257.html">Arnold family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000291">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400933">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/lemuel-hastings-arnold/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Seth Padelford (1807-1878) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Taunton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/10-03.html">October 3, 1807</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1863-65; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1869-73. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/08-26.html">August 26, 1878</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 327 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/seth-padelford/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Warner Hoppin (1807-1880) — also known as William W. Hoppin — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/09-01.html">September 1, 1807</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1854-57; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/RI.html">1856</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>). Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/04-18.html">April 18, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 230 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Hoppin and Esther Phillips (Warner) Hoppin; married to Frances Augusta Street; first cousin of Anna Jones Hoppin (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyer.html#574.71.96">Elisha Dyer</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyer.html#944.94.91">Elisha Dyer Jr.</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyer.html#668.02.78">Walter Gurnee Dyer</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#643.28.78">Denwood Lynn Chapin</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#083.03.95">Peter Rawson Taft</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards7.html#335.52.14">Pierpont Edwards</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#366.03.29">Alphonso Taft</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#117.31.25">Charles Phelps Taft</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#155.21.12">William Howard Taft</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#034.92.64">Henry Waters Taft</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-warner-hoppin/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alfred Henry Littlefield (1829-1893) — also known as Alfred H. Littlefield — of Lincoln, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Scituate, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/04-02.html">April 2, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Dry goods merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">thread</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">yarn</a> manufacturer; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1876-77; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1878-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1880-83; president, First National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> of Pawtucket; president, Pawtucket <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Gas</a> Company; president, Pawtucket <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/streetcars.html">Street Railway</a>. Died in Central Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/12-21.html">December 21, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 263 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Littlefield and Deborah (Himes) Littlefield; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/02-09.html">February 9, 1853</a>, to Rebecca Jane Northup; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#540.05.68">George Washington Greene</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burrows.html#071.54.51">Daniel Burrows</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ransome-rattliff.html#341.62.05">Jared Lewis Rathbone</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#191.43.20">Charles Stetson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#416.90.03">Isaiah Stetson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0030.html">DuPont family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/alfred-henry-littlefield/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred H. Littlefield">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3271">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Frederick Lippitt (1856-1933) — also known as Henry F. Lippitt — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/10-12.html">October 12, 1856</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1911-17; defeated, 1916; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/RI.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/RI.html">1916</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/speakers.html">speaker</a>). Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/12-28.html">December 28, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 77 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#419.50.51">Henry Lippitt</a> and Mary Ann (Balch) Lippitt; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#320.21.20">Charles Warren Lippitt</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/12-15.html">December 15, 1881</a>, to Marie Louise Bowen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/">1915</a> to Lucy Hayes (Herron) Laughlin (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#155.21.12">William Howard Taft</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#380.36.61">Helen Louise Herron</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#777.19.64">Frederick Lippitt</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#459.90.46">John Lester Hubbard Chafee</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#629.59.00">Lincoln Davenport Chafee</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#459.87.70">William Greene</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#826.12.66">Andrew Clark Lippitt</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#245.04.04">William Greene Jr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#187.29.61">Costello Lippitt</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#935.22.52">Ray Greene</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#092.85.97">Dennison Franklin Holden</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0320.html">Houghton family</a> of Corning, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0051.html">Upham family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000343">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406835">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7254317">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=182964">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jabez Comstock Knight (1815-1900) — also known as Jabez C. Knight — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Centerville, Hopkinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/07-31.html">July 31, 1815</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">Mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1859-64. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/04-06.html">April 6, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 249 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Dr. Sylvester Knight and Lucina (Slocum) Knight; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/09-28.html">September 28, 1842</a>, to Catherine Antoine Taft.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabez C. Knight">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23272523">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Salisbury Hayward (1835-1900) — also known as William S. Hayward — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Foster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/02-26.html">February 26, 1835</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/bakery.html">Baker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1881-84. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">Bright's disease</a>, in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/11-05.html">November 5, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 252 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/">1859</a> to Lucy Maria Rice.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William S. Hayward">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/129532731">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Herbert Warren Ladd (1843-1913) — also known as Herbert W. Ladd — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in New Bedford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/10-15.html">October 15, 1843</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">dry goods merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1889-90, 1891-92. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in Butler <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/11-29.html">November 29, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 45 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Warren Ladd and Lucy Washburn (Kingman) Ladd; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/05-25.html">May 25, 1870</a>, to Emma Burrows.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Ladd Observatory, at Brown <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-names.html">Providence, Rhode Island</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/herbert-warren-ladd/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert W. Ladd">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Russell Brown (1848-1919) — also known as D. Russell Brown — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Bolton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/TO-born.html">Tolland County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/03-28.html">March 28, 1848</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper publisher</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1892-95. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/02-28.html">February 28, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 337 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Arba Harrison Brown and Harriet M. (Dart) Brown; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/10-14.html">October 14, 1874</a>, to Isabel Barrows.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/daniel-russell-brown/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Mitchell Rodman (1814-1868) — also known as William M. Rodman — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/06-19.html">June 19, 1814</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Tailor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1857-59. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/12-11.html">December 11, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 175 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Rodman and Rebecca (Peckham) Rodman; married to Eliza N. Tompkins.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William M. Rodman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29730199">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elisha Dyer (1811-1890) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/07-20.html">July 20, 1811</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton mill business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of Rhode Island</a>, 1840-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1857-59; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; president and director, Exchange <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/05-17.html">May 17, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 301 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Elisha Dyer (1772-1854) and Frances Dunn (Jones) Dyer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/10-08.html">October 8, 1833</a>, to Anna Jones Hoppin (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones9.html#371.78.11">William Jones</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkinson-hormann.html#544.37.14">William Warner Hoppin</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyer.html#944.94.91">Elisha Dyer Jr.</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyer.html#668.02.78">Walter Gurnee Dyer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/elisha-dyer-sr/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha Dyer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/27001749">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Larned Davis Granger (1852-1909) — also known as Daniel L. D. Granger — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/05-30.html">May 30, 1852</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1901-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1903-09; died in office 1909. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/02-14.html">February 14, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 260 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000375">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404727">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Lippitt (1818-1891) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/10-09.html">October 9, 1818</a>. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1875-77. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/06-05.html">June 5, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 239 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Warren Lippitt and Eliza (Seamans) Lippitt; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/">1845</a> to Mary Ann Balch; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#320.21.20">Charles Warren Lippitt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#501.17.19">Henry Frederick Lippitt</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#777.19.64">Frederick Lippitt</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#459.90.46">John Lester Hubbard Chafee</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#629.59.00">Lincoln Davenport Chafee</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#459.87.70">William Greene</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#826.12.66">Andrew Clark Lippitt</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#187.29.61">Costello Lippitt</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#245.04.04">William Greene Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#935.22.52">Ray Greene</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#092.85.97">Dennison Franklin Holden</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowen.html#066.45.09">Benjamin Earl Bowen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ray.html#734.86.29">Ossian Ray</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0320.html">Houghton family</a> of Corning, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0051.html">Upham family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/henry-lippitt/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3270">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=104220">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Augustus Osborn Bourn (1834-1925) — also known as Augustus O. Bourn — of Bristol, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/BR-lived.html">Bristol County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/10-01.html">October 1, 1834</a>. Manufacturer of rubber goods; founder and president, National Rubber Company; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1876-83, 1886-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1883-85; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Rome</a>, 1889-93. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Author of Bourn Amendment to the Rhode Island state constitution, extending voting rights to foreign-born citizens. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/01-28.html">January 28, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 119 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George O. Bourn and Huldah B. (Eddy) Bourn; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/02-24.html">February 24, 1863</a>, to Elizabeth R. Morrill.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/augustus-osborn-bourn/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/3571727579/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/344/79.40.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Lucius F. C. Garvin"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lucius Fayette Clark Garvin (1841-1922) — also known as Lucius F. C. Garvin — of Lonsdale, Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Knoxville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/11-13.html">November 13, 1841</a>. Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">physician</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1883-85; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1903-05. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/10-02.html">October 2, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 323 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Garvin and Sarah Ann (Gunn) Garvin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/12-23.html">December 23, 1869</a>, to Lucy Waterman Southmayd.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/lucius-fayette-clark-garvin/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, December 1902</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Dean Kimball (1859-1930) — also known as Charles D. Kimball — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/09-13.html">September 13, 1859</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1894-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1900-01; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1901-03; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/12-08.html">December 8, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 86 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Emery S. Kimball and Mary C. (Briggs) Kimball; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/11-24.html">November 24, 1885</a>, to Gertrude C. Greenalgh.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-dean-kimball/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter Raleigh Danforth (1787-1861) — also known as Walter R. Danforth — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1787/04-01.html">April 1, 1787</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor and publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/RIcc nPR">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1829-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1853-54. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/08-11.html">August 11, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 132 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">Walter Raleigh</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Job Danforth and Sarah (Coy) Danforth; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/06-12.html">June 12, 1811</a>, to Elizabeth Ann Carter.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter R. Danforth">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29301910">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Greene Arnold (1821-1880) — also known as Samuel G. Arnold — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Middletown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-lived.html">Newport County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/04-12.html">April 12, 1821</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1852-53, 1861-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1862-63; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/02-14.html">February 14, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 308 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/green8.html#138.62.10">Theodore Francis Green</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0257.html">Arnold family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000295">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400937">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel G. Arnold">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Leonard Clarke (1813-1890) — also known as George L. Clarke — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Norton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/08-10.html">August 10, 1813</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1856-58, 1863-68; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1865-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1869-70. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/02-11.html">February 11, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 185 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. Pitt Clarke and Mary Jones (Simpson) Clarke; married to Frances Alice Chace.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George L. Clarke">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/142042172">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Amos Chafee Barstow (1813-1894) — also known as Amos Barstow — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/04-30.html">April 30, 1813</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">Manufacturer</a>; founder, Barstow Stove Company; president, City National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> of Providence; president, Mechanics Savings <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>; president, Providence <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Gas</a> Company; president, Mechanics Mutual <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Fire Insurance</a> Company; co-owner, Providence <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/trucking.html">Warehouse</a> Company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1852-53; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1860; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1870-71. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke of apoplexy</a>, in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/09-05.html">September 5, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 128 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Barstow and Sophia (Chafee) Barstow; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/05-28.html">May 28, 1834</a>, to Emeline Mumford Eames.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos C. Barstow">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23295501">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/154/62.24.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Vinton Chapin"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Vinton Chapin (1900-1982) — of Dublin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CH-lived.html">Cheshire County</a>, N.H.; Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass.; Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Born in Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-born.html">France</a> of American parents, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/04-17.html">April 17, 1900</a>. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EZ-consuls.html ">Prague</a>, 1929; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HT-consuls.html ">Port-au-Prince</a>, as of 1943; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-consuls.html ">The Hague</a>, as of 1947; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LX-diplomats.html ">Luxembourg</a>, 1957-60. Died in Woburn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-died.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/09-15.html">September 15, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 151 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Amory Chapin and Annie (Dickenson) Chapin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/11-01.html">November 1, 1928</a>, to Elizabeth Brosius Higgins (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/higgins.html#668.02.11">Milton Prince Higgins</a>); fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#771.20.70">Wilson Henry Fairbank</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/chapin-vinton ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/66392065">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: U.S. passport application (1920)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Leonard Barnes (1760-1812) — also known as David L. Barnes — of Taunton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-lived.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass.; Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Scituate, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/PL-born.html">Plymouth County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1760/01-28.html">January 28, 1760</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island</a>, 1797-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for Rhode Island</a>, 1801-12; died in office 1812. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/11-03.html">November 3, 1812</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 280 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Royal Chapin Taft (1823-1912) — also known as Royal C. Taft — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Northbridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/02-14.html">February 14, 1823</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1880-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1888-89; president, Merchants National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>; president, Boston & Providence <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; director, New York, New Haven, and Hartford <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/06-04.html">June 4, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 111 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Orsmus Taft and Margaret (Smith) Taft; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/10-31.html">October 31, 1850</a>, to Mary Frances Aimington.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/royal-chapin-taft/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3272">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Olney Arnold (1861-1916) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/09-08.html">September 8, 1861</a>. Democrat. Treasurer and manager Rogers Screw Company; president, Angell <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Land</a> Company; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/RI.html">1888</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1908; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1908, 1909; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EG-diplomats.html ">Egypt</a>, 1913-16, died in office 1916; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EG-consuls.html ">Cairo</a>, 1914-16, died in office 1916; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">under investigation</a> in 1916 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of making <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">unneutral utterances</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Died in Lisbon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PT-died.html">Portugal</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/03-05.html">March 5, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 179 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William G. Arnold and Lucy M. (Aldrich) Arnold; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/04-12.html">April 12, 1889</a>, to Grace Angell.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/arnold-olney">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29909885">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arthur Lewis Brown (1854-1928) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/11-28.html">November 28, 1854</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for Rhode Island</a>, 1896-1927; retired 1927. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/06-10.html">June 10, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 195 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Welch Brown and Mary Elizabeth (Thurber) Brown; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/02-12.html">February 12, 1884</a>, to Cora E. Aylsworth.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter Russell Stiness (1854-1924) — also known as Walter R. Stiness — of Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. Born in Smithfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/03-13.html">March 13, 1854</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1878-81; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1904-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island</a>, 1911-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1915-23. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/index.html">1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000927">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410387">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Adin Ballou Capron (1841-1911) — also known as Adin B. Capron — of Stillwater, Smithfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Mendon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/01-09.html">January 9, 1841</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/grain.html">miller</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1887-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1891-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1897-1911; defeated, 1892. Died in Stillwater, Smithfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/03-17.html">March 17, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 67 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Carlile Willis Capron and Abigail (Bates) Capron; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/">1865</a> to Irene Ballou; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/04-27.html">April 27, 1875</a>, to Phebe A. Mowery; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#838.80.64">William Aldrich</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#276.96.27">James Franklin Aldrich</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/califano-callaghan.html#350.87.46">Emor L. Calkins</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whiting.html#473.65.76">Almur Stiles Whiting</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000135">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402285">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adin B. Capron">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Huntington Browne (1811-1885) — also known as George H. Browne — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Glocester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/01-06.html">January 6, 1811</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1849-52; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island</a>, 1853-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/RI.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1861-63; defeated, 1862; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1872-73. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/09-26.html">September 26, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 263 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000956">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401908">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Joshua Spooner (1839-1918) — also known as Henry J. Spooner — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/08-06.html">August 6, 1839</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1870; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1879-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1881-91. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/02-09.html">February 9, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 187 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000740">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410209">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Moulton Carpenter (1844-1896) — of Rhode Island. Born in Portsmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/04-22.html">April 22, 1844</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spju.html">Justice of Rhode Island state supreme court</a>, 1882-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for Rhode Island</a>, 1885. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/07-31.html">July 31, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 100 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Harrison Page (1843-1912) — also known as Charles H. Page — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Glocester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/07-19.html">July 19, 1843</a>. Democrat. Member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1870; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/RI.html">1880</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/RI.html">1888</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1887, 1891-93, 1893-95. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/07-21.html">July 21, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 2 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000015">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408426">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Steere Aldrich (1884-1941) — also known as Richard S. Aldrich — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/02-29.html">February 29, 1884</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1915-16; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/RI.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/RI.html">1920</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/RI.html">1924</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1917-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1923-33; director, Providence Journal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a>, Providence National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>, Providence Washington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance</a> Co. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/12-25.html">December 25, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#433.61.94">Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich</a> and Abby Pearce (Chapman) Aldrich; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#812.13.78">Winthrop Williams Aldrich</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/04-30.html">April 30, 1921</a>, to Janet Innis White; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#729.26.37">Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#983.75.07">Winthrop Rockefeller</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#146.48.91">John Davison Rockefeller IV</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#191.28.19">Winthrop Paul Rockefeller</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000084">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400743">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard S. Aldrich">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6844471">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Tucker Eames (1818-1901) — also known as Benjamin T. Eames — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Dedham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/06-04.html">June 4, 1818</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1850; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1869-70; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/RI.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1871-79. Died in East Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/10-06.html">October 6, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 124 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000005">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403701">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Allen Jenckes (1818-1875) — also known as Thomas Jenckes — of Rhode Island. Born in Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/11-02.html">November 2, 1818</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1854-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1863-71. Died in Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/11-04.html">November 4, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 2 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Bowen Jenckes and Abigail W. (Allen) Jenckes; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/04-11.html">April 11, 1842</a>, to Mary Jane Fuller.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000076">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405979">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Jenckes">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11131992">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Manchester Boss Jr. (1875-1960) — also known as Henry M. Boss, Jr. — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/09-13.html">September 13, 1875</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island</a>, 1926, 1929-34; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1934. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/zeta-psi.html">Zeta Psi</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/04-09.html">April 9, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 209 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry M. Boss and Emma J. (Wilbur) Boss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/10-20.html">October 20, 1906</a>, to Louise J. Gifford.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/31502451">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Gallup (1796-1851) — of New York. Born in East Berne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/01-30.html">January 30, 1796</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 10th District, 1837-39. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/11-05.html">November 5, 1851</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 279 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Gallup and Lucy (Latham) Gallup; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/04-26.html">April 26, 1818</a>, to Eunice Smith; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gallo-gambino.html#789.64.17">Albert Smith Gallup</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#673.35.18">Henry Brewster Stanton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#869.84.38">John Taintor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#502.90.13">Roger Taintor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#704.11.74">Solomon Taintor</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#906.07.86">Erskine Mason Phelps</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000028">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404404">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12682901">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Taggard Blodgett (1859-1912) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Belmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/05-16.html">May 16, 1859</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1898-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Rhode Island state supreme court</a>, 1900-03. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/03-04.html">March 4, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 293 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Alfred Blodgett and Anna Maria (Taggard) Blodgett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/03-28.html">March 28, 1883</a>, to Amelia Wilson Torrey; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/08-15.html">August 15, 1900</a>, to Amy Lacy Bemiss.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29099639">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Oscar Lapham (1837-1926) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Burrillville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/06-29.html">June 29, 1837</a>. Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1887; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1891-95. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/03-29.html">March 29, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Duty Lapham and Lucinda (Wheelock) Lapham; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/06-20.html">June 20, 1876</a>, to Clara Louise Paine.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000093">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406601">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Harvey Almy Baker (1881-1951) — also known as Harvey A. Baker — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/04-24.html">April 24, 1881</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island</a>, 1914-20; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/RI.html">1924</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/RI.html">1928</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-delta-phi.html">Alpha Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/03-28.html">March 28, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 338 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Baker and Lucy Anna (Sisson) Baker; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/09-30.html">September 30, 1908</a>, to Marion North Brown.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33537376">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Bates Greenough (1866-1956) — also known as William B. Greenough — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Westfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/HA-born.html">Hampden County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/11-22.html">November 22, 1866</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/attygn.html">Rhode Island state attorney general</a>, 1905-12; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/RI.html">1924</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/chi-phi.html">Chi Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/11-17.html">November 17, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 361 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Carruthers Greenough and Jeanie Ashley (Bates) Greenough; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/09-27.html">September 27, 1893</a>, to Eliza S. Clark.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Almy Pirce (1824-1891) — of Rhode Island. Born in Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/index.html">1824</a>. Republican. Member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1860; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1885-87. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/index.html">1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">about 67 years</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000365">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408761">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Davis (1806-1895) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Dublin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/12-18.html">December 18, 1806</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1845-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1853-55. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/07-26.html">July 26, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 220 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000135">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403270">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frederick Lippitt (1916-2005) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/12-29.html">December 29, 1916</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1961-83; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1984, 1990. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/05-11.html">May 11, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 133 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#501.17.19">Henry Frederick Lippitt</a> and Lucy Hayes (Herron) Lippitt; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#320.21.20">Charles Warren Lippitt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#380.36.61">Helen Herron Taft</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#155.21.12">William Howard Taft</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#419.50.51">Henry Lippitt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herring-heslop.html#190.32.97">John Williamson Herron</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/collins9.html#769.45.74">William Collins</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/collins3.html#209.06.86">Ela Collins</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#734.91.43">Robert Alphonso Taft</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#835.28.29">Charles Phelps Taft II</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#905.39.81">William Howard Taft III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#785.13.87">Robert Taft Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#459.90.46">John Lester Hubbard Chafee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#026.45.34">Seth Chase Taft</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#407.39.33">Robert Alphonso Taft III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#629.59.00">Lincoln Davenport Chafee</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#459.87.70">William Greene</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#826.12.66">Andrew Clark Lippitt</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#469.29.30">Josiah Cowles</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#337.35.14">William Pitkin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#245.04.04">William Greene Jr.</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#187.29.61">Costello Lippitt</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44298597">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=78797">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Fessenden (1797-1881) — of Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Sandwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-born.html">Barnstable County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/06-13.html">June 13, 1797</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton goods manufacturer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1855-56; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1855-56; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1869-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/postal.html">postmaster</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/01-06.html">January 6, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 207 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Fessenden and Martha (Freeman) Fessenden; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/12-13.html">December 13, 1821</a>, to Mary Wilkinson; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freeman.html#931.49.63">Nathaniel Freeman Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#289.82.40">Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903)</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otis.html#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#498.84.81">Walter Fessenden</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otis.html#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#932.33.92">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#212.82.38">John Milton Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fenton.html#940.15.49">Reuben Eaton Fenton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#563.08.33">William Pitt Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#718.48.51">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#169.05.58">Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#407.27.40">Joseph Palmer Fessenden</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otis.html#059.85.99">Asahel Otis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#110.90.31">James Deering Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blais-blake.html#891.88.11">Henry Nichols Blake</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#275.91.62">Francis Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#105.04.84">Joshua Abbe Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#676.38.19">Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#503.27.61">Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#090.10.96">Desda Chapin</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#412.09.27">Charles Milton Fessenden</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otis.html#658.12.04">James Otis</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#083.03.95">Peter Rawson Taft</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otis.html#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grossi-grout.html#484.12.67">Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20231994">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joshua Melancthon Addeman (1840-1930) — also known as Joshua M. Addeman — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Bay of Islands, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NZ-born.html">New Zealand</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/11-15.html">November 15, 1840</a>. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Rhode Island</a>, 1872-87. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/10-13.html">October 13, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 332 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Addeman and Maria (Fligg) Addeman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/">1872</a> to Louise Waterman Winsor.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/26469864">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Ray Brayton (1840-1910) — also known as Charles R. Brayton — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. Born in Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/08-16.html">August 16, 1840</a>. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html#2">Providence, R.I.</a>, 1874-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/RI.html">Rhode Island Republican state chair</a>, 1876-77; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/RI.html">Republican National Committee from Rhode Island</a>, 1896-1910; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/RI.html">1900</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/09-23.html">September 23, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 38 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Anna (Clarke) Brayton and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#894.04.50">William Daniel Brayton</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/03-13.html">March 13, 1865</a>, to Antoinette Percival Belden.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7339642">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Henry Corliss (1817-1888) — also known as George H. Corliss — of North Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Easton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/06-02.html">June 2, 1817</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Mechanical engineer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/inventor.html">inventor</a>; developed the Corliss steam engine; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1868-70; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/02-21.html">February 21, 1888</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 264 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Dr. Hiram Corliss and Susan (Sheldon) Corliss; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/">1839</a> to Phebe F. Frost; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/">1866</a> to Emily Shaw.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Corliss <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Street</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-names.html">Providence, Rhode Island</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Corliss <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> (opened 1974), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-names.html">Chicago, Illinois</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS G. H. Corliss (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scrapped 1972) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Serving God in his life and with his wealth. Serving men with a kindness that was both careful and generous. By the gift of God, he increased magnificently as an inventor the world's resources in the use of steam machinery."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Henry Corliss">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23293412">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Smith Gallup (1823-1906) — also known as Albert S. Gallup — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in East Berne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/09-20.html">September 20, 1823</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton manufacturer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1853-54; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html#2">Providence, R.I.</a>, 1858-61. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/spca.html">Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals</a>. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/03-21.html">March 21, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 182 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gallo-gambino.html#061.01.16">Albert Gallup</a> and Eunice (Smith) Gallup; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/06-05.html">June 5, 1849</a>, to Jane Adams Balch; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#673.35.18">Henry Brewster Stanton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0818.html">Shearman-Stanton-Browning family</a> of Rhode Island (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23274567">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lucius Bowles Darling (1827-1896) — also known as Lucius B. Darling — of Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Bellingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/10-03.html">October 3, 1827</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1885-87. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/01-03.html">January 3, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 92 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Darling and Margaret (Smith) Darling; married to Angeline H. Armington.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Zenas Work Bliss (1867-1957) — also known as Zenas W. Bliss — of Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Edgewood, Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Johnston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/01-10.html">January 10, 1867</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1903-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1910-13; Rhode Island State Tax Commissioner. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-economic-assoc.html">American Economic Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-pol-sci-assoc.html">American Political Science Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/01-10.html">January 10, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Zenas Randall Bliss and Martha Nancy (Work) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/10-26.html">October 26, 1892</a>, to Lydia Collins Kelly.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/75464891">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Dyer Manton (1829-1911) — also known as Benjamin D. Manton — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/05-10.html">May 10, 1829</a>. U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UR-consuls.html ">Colonia</a>, 1869-1906. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/liver-cancer.html">liver carcinoma</a>, in Bridgetown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BB-died.html">Barbados</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/07-30.html">July 30, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 81 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Salma Manton and Anstis (Dyer) Manton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/02-01.html">February 1, 1855</a>, to Julia Dana Gladding.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29761163">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter Charles Hamm (1847-1922) — also known as Walter C. Hamm — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Hudson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-born.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/01-25.html">January 25, 1847</a>. Editorial writer for Philadelphia Press <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a>, 1883-1903; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Hull</a>, 1903-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Newcastle-on-Tyne</a>, 1914-19. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/index.html">1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/01-27.html">January 27, 1892</a>, to Alice A. Phillips.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/129532044">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Maxwell Greene (1832-1920) — also known as W. Maxwell Greene — of Rhode Island. Born in East Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/07-23.html">July 23, 1832</a>. U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BA-consuls.html ">Hamilton</a>, 1898-1915. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/08-25.html">August 25, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 33 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nathanael Greene and Abby Sophia (Casey) Greene; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/06-26.html">June 26, 1872</a>, to Katherine Celia Larned; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#565.21.67">Albert Collins Greene</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#540.05.68">George Washington Greene</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#459.87.70">William Greene</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#245.04.04">William Greene Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#935.22.52">Ray Greene</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ray.html#734.86.29">Ossian Ray</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0320.html">Houghton family</a> of Corning, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0051.html">Upham family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19472693">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joshua Wilbour Jr. (1840-1902) — of Bristol, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/BR-lived.html">Bristol County</a>, R.I. Born in Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/03-07.html">March 7, 1840</a>. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-consuls.html ">Dublin</a>, as of 1898-99. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/03-11.html">March 11, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 4 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joshua Wilbour and Margaret (Lloyd) Wilbour; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/">1868</a> to Belinda Olney Hathaway.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/174275508">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Appleton Stockwell (1847-1928) — also known as George A. Stockwell — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/index.html">1847</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-consuls.html">Honorary Vice-Consul for Great Britain</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-consuls.html">Providence, R.I.</a>, 1885-1903. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/10-14.html">October 14, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">about 81 years</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles P. Stockwell and Abigail (Towne) Stockwell; married to Anne Allen Ives Douglas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/58240765">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nicholas Van Slyck (1829-1892) — of Kinderhook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-lived.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y.; Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Pine Plains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/06-28.html">June 28, 1829</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/RI.html">Democratic National Committee from Rhode Island</a>, 1876-80; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/RI.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/RI.html">1880</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>). Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/03-03.html">March 3, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 249 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Hugh Van Slyck and Orminta Matilda (Pulver) Van Slyck.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lyman B. Frieze (1825-1917) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Marlborough, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/01-15.html">January 15, 1825</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/RI.html">1868</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/RI.html">Republican National Committee from Rhode Island</a>, 1868-72. Died in New Brighton, Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-died.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/09-06.html">September 6, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 234 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Edward Fletcher (1866-1924) — also known as Joseph E. Fletcher; "The Colonel" — of Bristol, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/BR-lived.html">Bristol County</a>, R.I. Born in Bradford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/06-09.html">June 9, 1866</a>. Republican. Head of the Coronet <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Worsted</a> Company of Mapleville, R.I., the Plainfield <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Worsted</a> Company of Plainfield, Conn., the Central <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Yarn</a> Company, of Central Valley, Conn., and the Allentown <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Woolen</a> Company of Wickford, R.I. Was also president of the American Association of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Woolen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Worsted</a> Manufacturers; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/RI.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/RI.html">1908</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">on board</a> the yacht Juniata, at Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/09-28.html">September 28, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 111 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frederick Willard Easton (1852-1940) — also known as Frederick W. Easton — of Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/10-17.html">October 17, 1852</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">Manufacturer</a>; president, Pawtucket <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Gas</a> Company; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/RI.html">1908</a>. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/05-31.html">May 31, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 227 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nicholas Redwood Easton and Maria (Eddy) Easton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/10-04.html">October 4, 1876</a>, to Agnes Frieze Barker.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/25180734">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frederick Latimer Jenckes (1877-1951) — also known as Frederick L. Jenckes — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/04-04.html">April 4, 1877</a>. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/RI.html">1920</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>). Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/03-30.html">March 30, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 360 days</a>). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Frederica Hutchinson (Clark) Jenckes and Joseph Edwin Jenckes; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/02-12.html">February 12, 1903</a>, to Julia Doane Addeman.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21604250">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07644">Greenville Cemetery</a> Smith Avenue Greenville, Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James A. Dame — of Johnston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a> from Johnston, 1911. Interment at Greenville Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01150">Oak Hill Cemetery</a> Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Christopher Robinson (1806-1889) — of Rhode Island. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/05-15.html">May 15, 1806</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/attygn.html">Rhode Island state attorney general</a>, 1854; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1859-61; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PU-diplomats.html ">Peru</a>, 1861-65. Died in Woonsocket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/10-03.html">October 3, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 141 days</a>). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000333">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409304">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/robinson-christopher ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Latimer Whipple Ballou (1812-1900) — also known as Latimer W. Ballou — of Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/03-01.html">March 1, 1812</a>. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 2nd District, 1875-81. Died in Woonsocket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/05-09.html">May 9, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 69 days</a>). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000106">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401107">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Henry Brown (1828-1913) — also known as Stephen H. Brown — of Woonsocket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/12-04.html">December 4, 1828</a>. Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/woonsocket.html#3">Woonsocket Falls, R.I.</a>, 1865-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/woonsocket.html#2">Woonsocket, R.I.</a>, 1874-79. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/03-30.html">March 30, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 116 days</a>). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry S. Brown and Sally (Vose) Brown; married to Caroline Mehitable Craig.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19162012">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00834">Union Cemetery</a> Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode Island <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Peleg Arnold (1751-1820) — Born in Smithfield (part now in North Smithfield), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1751/06-10.html">June 10, 1751</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tavern-biz.html">tavern keeper</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1780; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Rhode Island</a>, 1787-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Rhode Island state supreme court</a>, 1795-1812. 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Interment at Union Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Arnold and Patience (Cook) Arnold.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000293">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400935">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peleg Arnold">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12713158">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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