List of Governors of Rhode Island facts for kids
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Style | The Honorable or Her Excellency |
Term length | Four years, renewable once |
Inaugural holder | Nicholas Cooke; 1775 |
Formation | Constitution of Rhode Island |
Succession | Every four years, unless re-elected. |
Salary | $128,210 (2013) |
Party affiliation
Party | Governors |
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Republican | 32 |
Democratic | 21 |
Democratic-Republican | 4 |
Independent | 4 |
Whig | 4 |
Country | 3 |
Law and Order | 2 |
Dorr Rebellion | 1 |
Federalist | 1 |
Know Nothing | 1 |
Rhode Island Party | 1 |
Other high offices held
This is a table of congressional seats, other federal offices, and other governorships held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Rhode Island except where noted. * denotes those offices which the governor resigned to take.
Governor | Gubernatorial term | U.S. Congress | Other offices held | |
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House | Senate | |||
Isaac Wilbour | 1806–1807 | H | ||
James Fenner | 1807–1811 1824–1831 1843–1845 |
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Nehemiah R. Knight | 1817–1821 | S | ||
Lemuel H. Arnold | 1831–1833 | H | ||
John Brown Francis | 1833–1838 | S | ||
William Sprague III | 1838–1839 | H | S | |
Henry B. Anthony | 1849–1851 | S | ||
Philip Allen | 1851–1853 | S| | ||
William Sprague IV | 1860–1863 | S | ||
Ambrose Burnside | 1866–1869 | S | ||
George P. Wetmore | 1885–1887 | S | ||
George H. Utter | 1905–1907 | H | ||
Theodore F. Green | 1933–1937 | S | ||
J. Howard McGrath | 1941–1945 | S | United States Solicitor General*; United States Attorney General | |
John O. Pastore | 1945–1950 | S| | ||
John Chafee | 1963–1969 | S | United States Secretary of the Navy | |
Lincoln Chafee | 2011–2015 | S |
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