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Robert Willard Burbank (1856-1906) was an American lawyer, and the 49th Attorney General of Rhode Island, serving from 1891 to 1894. [1]
He was born on September 14, 1856, in Koloa, Kingdom of Hawai'i. He attended the Friends' Boarding School in Providence and Brown University, graduating in 1878. He was admitted to the bar in 1880, and practiced law in Providence. [2] He was a member of Central Congregational Church.
He married Martha Anna Taylor on April 12, 1883.
James Howard McGrath was an American politician and attorney from Rhode Island. McGrath, a Democrat, served as U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island before becoming governor, U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Senator, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Attorney General of the United States.
Theodore Foster was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island. He was a member of the Federalist Party and later the National Republican Party. He served as one of the first two United States senators from Rhode Island and, following John Langdon, served as dean of the Senate.
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William Carpenter was a co-founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, born about 1610, probably in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. He died September 7, 1685, in the Pawtuxet section of Providence, now in Cranston, Rhode Island. He was listed by 1655 as a "freeman" of the colony.
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William Howard Sweetland was an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1909 to 1920, and chief justice from 1920 to 1929.
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