Philip Aloysius Hart was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat,he served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until his death from cancer in Washington,D.C. in 1976. He was known as the "Conscience of the Senate". He is the namesake of the Hart Senate Office Building.
Lincoln Davenport Chafee is an American politician. He was mayor of Warwick,Rhode Island from 1993 to 1999,a United States Senator from 1999 to 2007,and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. He was a member of the Democratic Party from 2013 to 2019;in June 2019,The Boston Globe reported that he had become a registered Libertarian,having previously been a Republican until September 2007 and an independent and then a Democrat in the interim.
Theodore Francis Green was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat,Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy aristocratic Yankee from an old family who was a strong supporter of Wilsonian internationalism during the Democratic administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman (1933–53). He served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1957 to 1959. At the time of his retirement in 1961,he set the record at age 93 of the oldest person to serve in the Senate;the record was subsequently broken by Strom Thurmond.
William Sprague,also known as William III or William Sprague III,was a politician and industrialist from the U.S. state of Rhode Island,serving as the 14th Governor,a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator. He was the uncle of William Sprague IV,also a Governor and Senator from Rhode Island.
John Orlando Pastore was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1950 to 1976 and as the 61st governor of Rhode Island from 1945 to 1950. He was the first Italian American elected to the Senate.
William Smith Flynn of Providence,Rhode Island was the 54th Governor of Rhode Island from 1923 to 1925. He was a progressive Democrat.
The history of Rhode Island is an overview of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the state of Rhode Island from pre-colonial times to the present.
The Miss Rhode Island USA competition is the beauty pageant that selects the representative for the state Rhode Island in the Miss USA pageant. It is currently directed by D&D Productions.
John Brown Francis was a governor and United States Senator from Rhode Island.
Philip Allen was an American manufacturer and politician from Rhode Island. He served as Governor of Rhode Island and as a Democratic member of the United States Senate.
John Sammon McKiernan was an American politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island from 1947 to 1950 and 1951–1956 and briefly the 62nd Governor of Rhode Island (1950–1951).
Robert Emmet Quinn was an American attorney and politician from Rhode Island. He served as the 58th Governor of Rhode Island and Judge for the Rhode Island Superior Court.
William Edward Smith is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island and a former federal judicial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Since the Great Depression,Rhode Island politics have been dominated by the Rhode Island Democratic Party,and the state is considered part of the Democrats' "Blue Wall." However,the Rhode Island Republican Party,although virtually non-existent in the Rhode Island General Assembly,occasionally puts forward statewide reform candidates. Former Governor Donald Carcieri of East Greenwich,and former Mayor Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci of Providence ran successfully as Republican reform candidates.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Rhode Island was held on November 4,2014 to elect a member of the United States Senate from the State of Rhode Island,concurrently with the election of the Governor of Rhode Island,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Erin Patricia Lynch Prata is an American politician and an Associate Justice on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. She previously served in the Rhode Island Senate representing District 31 since January 2009. Lynch Prata served as Chairwoman on the Senate Committee on Judiciary,as well as a member of the Senate Committee on Rules,Government Ethics &Oversight and the Senate Committee on Special Legislation &Veterans' Affairs. She focused on issues including public education,economic development,job growth,health care and environmental protection. She was confirmed to be an Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court in December 2020.
The 1976 United States Senate election in Rhode Island took place on November 2,1976. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator John O. Pastore did not seek re-election. Republican John Chafee won the seat,defeating Democrat Richard P. Lorber. Chafee was the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate race in Rhode Island since 1930.
The 2018 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 6,2018,to elect the Governor of Rhode Island,concurrently with the election of Rhode Island's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections.
Joyce Anne Noel was an American former beauty queen who served as the First Lady of Rhode Island from 1973 to 1977. Noel,then known by her maiden name of Joyce Sandberg,was crowned Miss Rhode Island in 1953 and Miss Rhode Island USA in 1954,becoming the only woman win both state pageants to date. She later served as Rhode Island's first lady during the tenure of her husband,former Governor Philip Noel.
James O. McManus was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1941 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Rhode Island.
