The Political Graveyard: Providence County, R.I.

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Providence County
Rhode Island

Politicians who were born in Providence County

Burrillville: Oscar Lapham, 1837 — Fred Bartlett Perkins, 1897

Central Falls: Francis B. Condon, 1891 — George Beaucage, 1893 — Armand H. Cote, 1909

Cranston: Nehemiah Knight, 1746 — Nehemiah R. Knight, 1780 — Elisha Harris, 1791 — Henry Howard, 1826 — William Sprague, 1830 — Edward Daniel DiPrete, 1934

Cumberland: Latimer Whipple Ballou, 1812 — Olney Arnold, 1861 — Stephen A. Fanning, 1907

East Providence: William C. Bliss, 1874 — Ernest L. Sprague, 1876

Foster: Nelson W. Aldrich, 1841 — Clarke Howard Johnson, 1851 — Asahel Johnson Wright, 1854

Glocester: George H. Browne, 1811 — Charles H. Page, 1843

Johnston: Samuel Eddy, 1769 — Alpheus F. Angell, 1825 — Zenas W. Bliss, 1867

Lincoln: James H. Higgins, 1876

Manville, Lincoln: Russell H. Handy, 1883

North Foster, Foster: Lewis Cass Wilmarth, 1833

North Smithfield: Joseph H. O'Donnell, Jr., 1925

Pawtucket: Samuel Starkweather, 1799 — Robert Bushby, 1843 — John A. Coulthurst, 1871 — Albert J. Lamarre, 1897 — Harry F. Curvin, 1898 — Willard L. Beaulac, 1899 — Leo E. J. Carney, 1899 — Thomas Kenneth Wright, 1908 — Joseph Lyman Fisher, 1914 — Lincoln Almond, 1936

Providence:

	Providence, 1700-1749: Stephen Hopkins, 1707 — John Brown, 1736 — Jonathan Arnold, 1741
	Providence, 1750-1799: Caleb Baker, 1762 — Richard Jackson, Jr., 1764 — James Fenner, 1771 — Jeremiah Brown Howell, 1771 — Jonathan Russell, 1771 — James Burrill, Jr., 1772 — John C. Bucklin, 1773 — William Cahoon, 1774 — Philip Allen, 1785 — Elijah Babbitt, 1795 — Charles Jackson, 1797
	Providence, 1800-1849: Emery D. Potter, 1804 — Christopher Robinson, 1806 — William W. Hoppin, 1807 — William Sprague, 1809 — John H. Clifford, 1809 — Richmond M. Bullock, 1809 — Elisha Dyer, 1811 — Amos Barstow, 1813 — Henry Lippitt, 1818 — Samuel G. Arnold, 1821 — George W. Curtis, 1824 — Christopher Columbus Bowen, 1832 — Augustus O. Bourn, 1834 — Joseph F. Malloney, 1835 — Henry J. Spooner, 1839 — Stanford Newel, 1839 — Lewis E. Payson, 1840 — William W. Douglas, 1841 — Charles W. Lippitt, 1846
	Providence, 1850-1899: Daniel L. D. Granger, 1852 — Thomas B. Dunn, 1853 — Arthur Lewis Brown, 1854 — Henry F. Lippitt, 1856 — Alexis C. Angell, 1857 — Charles D. Kimball, 1859 — Jesse H. Metcalf, 1860 — Mathewson W. Potter, c.1862 — Theodore F. Green, 1867 — Frederic Mosley Sackett, 1868 — Sidney Ballou, 1870 — Christopher J. King, 1874 — Henry M. Boss, Jr., 1875 — George F. Troy, 1876 — James E. Dunne, 1882 — George Blinn Francis, 1883 — Clifford C. Hubbard, 1884 — Winthrop W. Aldrich, 1885 — William S. Flynn, 1885 — Ralph F. Chesbrough, 1885 — Clarence G. Burton, 1886 — Harry Sandager, 1887 — Ely E. Palmer, 1887 — John P. Hartigan, 1887 — Norman S. Case, 1888 — H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld, 1889 — Devere Allen, 1891 — Dana G. Munro, 1892 — J. Hector Paquin, 1892 — Louis W. Cappelli, 1894 — William John Racewicz, 1899
	Providence, 1900-1949: Thomas J. Paolino, 1905 — Edward Matthew McEntee, 1906 — John O. Pastore, 1907 — John A. Notte, Jr., 1909 — Orray Taft, Jr., 1909 — Leonard Woodcock, 1911 — John S. McKiernan, 1911 — Henry J. Tasca, 1912 — Leo P. Baronian, 1912 — John E. Fogarty, 1913 — Frank Licht, 1916 — Leona A. Kelley, 1919 — Bruce Sundlun, 1920 — John H. Chafee, 1922 — Thomas H. Needham, 1922 — Ann Aldrich, 1927 — Francis Joseph Boyle, 1927 — J. Joseph Garrahy, 1930 — William P. McCormick, 1939 — Edward Peter Beard, 1940 — William R. Wooton, 1944 — Richard A. Licht, 1948 — Jack Reed, 1949
	Providence, 1950-1999: Marilyn Chambers, 1952 — Paul J. Barbadoro, 1955 — Pat LaMarche, 1960 — Patrick J. Toomey, 1961 — David N. Cicilline, 1961 — James R. Langevin, 1964 — Frank T. Caprio, 1966 — David A. Caprio, 1967

Near Providence: Grattan H. Wheeler, 1783

Scituate: Ezekiel Cornell, 1732 — James B. Angell, 1829 — Alfred H. Littlefield, 1829

Smithfield: Daniel Mowry, Jr., 1729 — Cyrus Aldrich, 1808 — Walter R. Stiness, 1854

Smithfield (part now in North Smithfield): Peleg Arnold, 1751

Woonsocket: William C. Lovering, 1835 — R. J. Hodgson, 1857 — James McAndrews, 1862 — Alphonse Gaulin, 1874 — Florence H. Pendleton, 1881 — J. Howard McGrath, 1903

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