Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace
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Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace
Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace: Rhode Island
in chronological order
Olney Arnold (1861-1916) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Cumberland, Providence
County, R.I., September
8, 1861.
Son of William G. Arnold and Lucy M. (Aldrich) Arnold.
Democrat. Treasurer and manager Rogers Screw Company; president,
Angell Land
Company; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode
Island, 1888;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1908; candidate for Governor of
Rhode Island, 1908, 1909; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1913-16, died in office 1916; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1914-16, died in office 1916; under
investigation in 1916 on charges
of making unneutral
utterances.
Unitarian.
Died in Lisbon, Portugal,
March
5, 1916 (age 54 years, 179
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Vincent Cianci (born c.1941) —
also known as Buddy Cianci —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born about 1941.
Mayor
of Providence, R.I., 1974-84, 1991-2002.
Pleaded no
contest in 1984 to charges
that he beat
his estranged
wife's lover with a fireplace log. Charged
with twelve federal counts of bribery,
conspiracy and racketeering; convicted
in June, 2002 on two counts.
Still living as of 2002.
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Thomas W. Pearlman (born c.1928) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born about 1928.
Republican. Member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives.
Found
guilty of lawyer
misconduct by the Rhode Island Supreme Court, for fee-gouging
and providing incompetent
counsel; censured
in 1993, suspended
in 2004, and ordered to pay restitution
in 2010.
Still living as of 2010.
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Patrick Joseph Kennedy (b. 1967) —
also known as Patrick J. Kennedy —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Portsmouth, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in Brighton, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 14,
1967.
Son of Edward
Moore Kennedy and Joan
Bennett Kennedy.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode
Island, 1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1988-94; U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 1st District, 1995-; pleaded
guilty in 2006 to charges
of driving
under
the influence of prescription drugs.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2009.
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