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- ↑ http://www.courts.ri.gov/Courts/SupremeCourt/PDF/AboutTheSupremeCourt.pdf Archived 2015-07-14 at the Wayback Machine [ bare URL PDF ]
- ↑ "Remembering Vietnam War". 5 June 2014.
- ↑ "The Political Graveyard: Warwick, Rhode Island".
- ↑ "Sundlun: 'man for moment of crisis'".
- ↑ Anderson, Patrick (October 7, 2020). "R.I. Supreme Court Justice Francis X. Flaherty to retire". providencejournal.com. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
