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). Green was a strong supporter of Wilsonian internationalism during the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. 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.
Edward Daniel DiPrete is an American Republican Party politician and convicted felon from Rhode Island. He served as the 70th Governor of Rhode Island for three two-year terms,serving from 1985 to 1991. Convicted of numerous corruption charges,he is the only Rhode Island governor to have gone to prison.
William West was an American militia general in the American Revolutionary War,Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court,Deputy Governor of Rhode Island,and anti-federalist leader. West also was a party in the first U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1791,West v. Barnes.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court is the court of last resort in the U.S. State of Rhode Island. The Court consists of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices,all selected by the Governor of Rhode Island from candidates vetted by the Judicial Nominating Commission. Each justice enjoys lifetime tenure and no mandatory retirement age,similar to Federal judges. Justices may be removed only if impeached for improper conduct by a vote of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and convicted by trial in the Rhode Island Senate.
Patrick C. Lynch is an American lawyer who served as Rhode Island's 72nd Attorney General. He oversaw the investigation and prosecution of the second-deadliest fire in Rhode Island history,the Station Nightclub Fire,and also sued former lead paint manufacturers for cleanup costs associated with their old products. He won reelection in 2006,and attempted unsuccessfully to run for governor of Rhode Island in 2010,where he dropped out before the Democratic Primary.
Frank R. Licht was an American politician and the 67th Governor of Rhode Island from 1969 to 1973,serving as the first Jewish governor in Rhode Island state history. He was also an associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court from 1956 to 1968 and a member of the Rhode Island Senate from 1949 to 1956.
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.
Christopher Del Sesto was an American attorney,politician and a member of the Republican Party,who served as 64th Governor of Rhode Island. When he became governor in 1958,Del Sesto was the first Republican chief executive to be chosen by Rhode Island voters in 20 years.
Maureen McKenna Goldberg is an American jurist who is currently the senior justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
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.
Joseph A. Montalbano is an Associate Justice on the Rhode Island Superior Court.
Daniel James McKee is an American politician and businessman serving as the 76th governor of Rhode Island since March 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,he also served as Rhode Island's 69th lieutenant governor from 2015 to 2021.
Angel Taveras is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 37th mayor of Providence,Rhode Island,from 2011 to 2015. Taveras was the first Hispanic mayor of the city and the third elected and fourth serving Dominican-American mayor in the United States.
John Gardner served for more than eight years as the deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,and was also a Chief Justice of the colony's Superior Court.
Gina Marie Raimondo is an American businesswoman,lawyer,politician,and venture capitalist who has served since 2021 as the 40th United States secretary of commerce. A member of the Democratic Party,she served as the 75th governor of Rhode Island from 2015 to 2021,and was the first woman to serve in the role.
Herbert F. DeSimone was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island. He served as the 64th Attorney General of Rhode Island and as President Nixon's Assistant Secretary of Transportation for the Environment and Urban System.
Melissa Austin Long is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court since 2021. She previously served as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court from 2017 to 2021.
