Roger Williams was an English-born New England Puritan minister,theologian,and author who founded Providence Plantations,which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom,separation of church and state,and fair dealings with the Native Americans.
Brookline is a town in Norfolk County,Massachusetts,United States,and part of the Boston metropolitan area. An exclave of Norfolk County,Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods:Brighton,Allston,Fenway–Kenmore,Mission Hill,Jamaica Plain,and West Roxbury. The city of Newton borders Brookline to the west. It is known as the birthplace of John F. Kennedy.
Roger Sherman was an early American statesman,lawyer,and a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States:the Continental Association,the Declaration of Independence,the Articles of Confederation,and the Constitution. He also signed the 1774 Petition to the King.
George Frisbie Hoar was an American attorney and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1877 until his death in 1904. He belonged to an extended family that became politically prominent in 18th- and 19th-century New England.
Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula in northeastern Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Boston and marks the northern limit of Massachusetts Bay. Cape Ann includes the city of Gloucester and the towns of Essex,Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport.
The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut,originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony,was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3,1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation,and the English permanently gained control of the region in 1637 after struggles with the Dutch. The colony was later the scene of a bloody war between the colonists and Pequots known as the Pequot War. Connecticut Colony played a significant role in the establishment of self-government in the New World with its refusal to surrender local authority to the Dominion of New England,an event known as the Charter Oak incident which occurred at Jeremy Adams' inn and tavern.
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America,bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It was founded by Roger Williams. It was an English colony from 1636 until 1707,and then a colony of Great Britain until the American Revolution in 1776,when it became the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Roger Wolcott was a Republican lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He was the 36th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1893 to 1897,becoming acting governor in 1896 upon the death of Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge. He was elected the 39th governor of Massachusetts in his own right in 1897,serving until 1900. He was a leading figure in the Young Republican Club,which revitalized the Massachusetts Republican Party in the 1890s.
Roger Williams University (RWU) is a private university in Bristol,Rhode Island. Founded in 1956,it was named for theologian and Rhode Island cofounder Roger Williams. The school enrolls over 5,000 students and employs over 480 academic staff.
Sherman Hoar,was an American lawyer,member of Congress representing Massachusetts,and U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts. As a young man he was the model for the head of the John Harvard statue now in the Harvard Yard.
Rockwood Hoar was a Representative from Massachusetts,the son of Massachusetts US Senator George Frisbie Hoar.
George Lusztig is a Romanian-born American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Norbert Wiener Professor in the Department of Mathematics from 1999 to 2009.
Dwight Foster was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served as Massachusetts Attorney General and was an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Frank Joseph Donahue was an American politician who served as the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth,Chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee,and as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy is an American vocational high school located in Springfield,Massachusetts,next to the Springfield High School of Science and Technology. Led by principal George Johnson and operating under the authority of the Springfield School Committee,Putnam Vocational provides academic and vocational instruction to students in grades nine through twelve throughout the Springfield area. The school is receiving Title I funds from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Leslie Bradley Cutler (1890-1971) was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts Senate.
The 1942 Massachusetts Gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday November 3,to elect Governor of Massachusetts. incumbent Governor Leverett Saltonstall defeated Democrat candidate Roger Putnam,Communist candidate Otis A. Hood,Socialist candidate Joseph Massidda,Socialist Labor candidate Henning A. Blomen,and Prohibition candidate Guy S. Williams.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 3rd Hampden district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Hampden and Hampshire Counties. Republican Nick Boldyga of Southwick has represented the district since 2011.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 13th Bristol district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of the city of New Bedford in Bristol County. Since 1991,Antonio Cabral of the Democratic Party has represented the district.
The 1898 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1898. Incumbent Republican Governor Roger Wolcott was re-elected to a third term in office,defeating Democratic former Mayor of Lawrence Alexander B. Bruce.
