Eli Thayer was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1861. Prior to that, he was the founder of the New England Emigrant Aid Company that brought pro-free state settlers t...

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Robert Emmet Quinn (April 2, 1894 – May 19, 1975) was an American politician and the 58th Governor of Rhode Island. Quinn was born in 1894 in Phoenix, Rhode Island. He graduated from Brown Univer...

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Norman Stanley Case (October 11, 1888 – October 9, 1967) was the Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island from 1927 to 1928 and the 56th Governor of Rhode Island from 1928 to 1933. In addition, he also se...

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Augustus Osborn Bourn (October 1, 1834 – January 28, 1925) was an American politician and the 36th Governor of Rhode Island. Early life Bourn was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on October ...

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Charles Warren Lippitt (October 8, 1846 – April 4, 1924) was an American politician and the 44th Governor of Rhode Island. Early life and family Lippitt was born in Providence, Rhode Island o...

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) Charles Jackson (March 4, 1797 – January 21, 1876) was the 18th Governor of Rhode Island from 1845-46. Jackson was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University, studied...

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. Elisha Dyer, Jr. (November 29, 1839 – November 29, 1906) was a Rhode Island politician who was 45th Governor of Rhode Island from 1897 to 1900. He was the son of Elisha Dyer, Governor of Rhode Isla...

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Elisha Dyer (July 20, 1811 - May 17, 1890) was an American politician and the 25th Governor of Rhode Island. Early life Dyer was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 20, 1811. He graduate...

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Oliver Ames (February 4, 1831 – October 22, 1895) was a U.S. political figure and financier. He was the 35th Governor of Massachusetts (1887–1890). He was the son of Oakes Ames (1804–1873), a United ...

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William Claflin (March 6, 1818 – January 5, 1905) was an industrialist and philanthropist who served as the 27th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1869–1872 and as a member of the Un...

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John Henry Clifford (January 16, 1809 – January 2, 1876), U.S. political figure, was the 21st Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a single term, from 1853 to 1854. He was the first gove...

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Adoniram Judson, Jr. (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson became the first Protestant mi...

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John Meredith Read, Jr. (1837–1896), U.S. Minister to Greece 1873-1877, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to Greece 1877-1879. New York State Adjutant General, United States Consul General to France, Algeria ...

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William Baylies (September 15, 1776 – September 27, 1865) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, brother of Francis Baylies. Born in Dighton, Massachusetts, Baylies was graduated from Brown ...

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Lewis Linn McArthur (March 18, 1843 – May 10, 1897) was an American newspaper publisher and judge in the state of Oregon. He was an Oregon Supreme Court associate justice and the father of Lewis A. M...

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Frederick Bernays "Fritz" Wiener (1 June 1906 – 1 October 1996) was an American jurist specializing in military justice and constitutional law who became famous for the 1957 case of Reid v. Covert, w...

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Thomas Gardiner Corcoran (1900–1981) was one of several Irish American advisors in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's brain trust during the New Deal, and later, a close friend and advisor to Pres...

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Nicholas Brown II, was born in Providence, 4 April 1769. He married first Ann Carter, second mary Stelle. He was long distinguished for his virtues and his public and private charities. He erected Hope...

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John Brown Francis (May 31, 1791 – August 9, 1864) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Biography Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended the common schools of Providence, R...

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. Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. (November 30, 1889 – January 21, 1950) was the United States Solicitor General in 1929-1930. As a young man, Hughes was an honor graduate of Brown University where he wa...

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Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (December 7, 1885 – February 8, 1957) was an American Professor of Law, judicial philosopher and civil rights advocate. Defending freedom of speech, he was described by Senator ...

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. Dorothy Willard is John Fitzgerald Kennedy JR's 12th Cousin. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is Dorothy Willard's 11th great grandfather's wife's 11th great grandson. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr is the...

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James Burrill Angell (January 7, 1829 – April 1, 1916) was an American educator, academic administrator, and diplomat. He is best known for being the longest-serving president of the University of Mi...

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Oren Burbank Cheney (December 10, 1816 – December 22, 1903) was a Free Will Baptist clergyman, an abolitionist and the founder of Bates College. Early life Oren Cheney was born in Holderness,...

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. Thomas John Watson, Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist. He was the 2nd president of IBM (1952-1971), the 11th national pres...

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John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln. In August 1898, Hay was named by Pres...

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Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox (September 30, 1824, Zanesville, Ohio – September 10, 1889, New York City) was an American Congressman and diplomat. He represented both Ohio and New York in the United S...

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Warren Randolph Burgess (May 7, 1889 – September 16, 1978) was an American banker and diplomat who served as ambassador to NATO from 1957 to 1961. Burgess was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He at...

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Frederic Mosley Sackett (December 17, 1868 – May 18, 1941) served as a United States Senator from Kentucky and ambassador to Germany during the Hoover Administration. He was born in Providence, R...

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John Ruggles (October 8, 1789 – June 20, 1874) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. He served in several important state legislative and judicial positions before serving in the U...

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William Learned Marcy (December 12, 1786 – July 4, 1857) was an American statesman, who served as U.S. Senator and the 11th Governor of New York, and as the U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary o...

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Henry Frederick Lippitt (October 12, 1856 – December 28, 1933) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, he attended private schools, graduated from Brown University in 1878,...

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) William Hunter (November 26, 1774 – December 3, 1849) was an American politician and diplomat and namesake/owner of the Hunter House museum. Hunter was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He attende...

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) John Holmes (March 14, 1773 – July 7, 1843) was an American politician. Holmes, a National Republican, served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and was one of the first two U.S. Senators ...

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Nathaniel Peter Hill (February 18, 1832 – May 22, 1900) was a United States Senator from Colorado. Biography Born in Montgomery, Orange County, New York, at the Nathaniel Hill Brick House (no...

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Lafayette Sabine Foster (November 22, 1806 – September 19, 1880) was a nineteenth-century American politician and lawyer from Connecticut. He served in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1867 and ...

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James Fenner (January 22, 1771 – April 17, 1846) was an American politician who served as an United States Senator as well as the seventh, 11th and 17th Governor of Rhode Island (on three separate oc...

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Nathan Fellows Dixon, III (August 28, 1847 – November 8, 1897) was a United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Westerly, he attended the common schools of Westerly and Phill...

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The Hon. Nathan Fellows DIXON (son of the late William DIXON, Esq., of Plainfield, Conn.) He commenced the practice of Law in Westerly, in the year 1802. He was for seventeen successive years a member ...

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John Hopkins Clarke (April 1, 1789 – November 23, 1870) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, he moved to Providence where he studied under a private teacher. ...

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. James Burrill, Jr. (April 25, 1772 – December 25, 1820) was a Federalist-party United States senator representing the state of Rhode Island. He served in the senate from 1817 until 1820. He graduat...

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Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867 – May 19, 1966) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and i...

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Samuel Greene Arnold, Jr. (April 12, 1821 – February 14, 1880) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he received his early education under private tutors, a...

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Henry Bowen Anthony (April 1, 1815 – September 2, 1884) was a United States newspaperman and political figure. He served as the editor and later part owner of the Providence Journal and later was the...

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) Philip Allen (September 1, 1785 – December 16, 1865) was an American politician. He was the 22nd Governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853) and a United States Senator (1853–1859). Born in Providen...

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Pendleton Murrah (1826–August 4, 1865) was the tenth Governor of Texas. His term in office coincided with the American Civil War. A native of South Carolina, Murrah graduated from Brown Universit...

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Major General William Curtis Chase (9 March 1895–21 August 1986) was an American soldier and General in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his service in the South West Pacific ...

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Levi Wheaton (1761-1851), professor of the theory and practice of medicine, was born in Providence on February 6, 1761. He attended Rhode Island College before the Revolutionary War. During the war he ...

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. SAMUEL WARD, fifth child of Governor Samuel Ward, of Rhode Island, and Anne Ray, was born at Westerly in that Colony, Nov. 17, 1756. Samuel was educated at Brown University, in Providence, and wa...

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[following downloaded 2009 from ] Judge Dwight Foster (1757-1823) was a chief justice of Worcester County, Mass., a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, the Massachusetts Legislatur...

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Theodore Foster (April 29, 1752 – January 13, 1828) was an American politician. He was a member of the Federalist Party and later the National Republican Party. He served as one of the first two Unit...

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Joshua Toulmin (11 May [O.S. 30 April] 1740 – 23 July 1815) of Taunton, England was a noted theologian and a serial Dissenting minister of Presbyterian (1761–1764), Baptist (1765–1803), and then Unit...

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Jeremiah Brown Howell (August 28, 1771 – February 5, 1822) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, he attended private schools, pursued classical studies and graduated from...

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) David Howell (January 1, 1747 – July 30, 1824) was an American jurist and statesman from Providence, Rhode Island. Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Howell graduated from Princeton University in ...

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Charles Edwin Bassett (February 9, 1863 in Central Falls, Rhode Island – May 28, 1942 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island), was a Major League Baseball infielder. He played all or part of nine seasons in the ...

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William Wallace Wade (June 15, 1892 – October 7, 1986) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alaba...

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John Milton Thayer (January 24, 1820 – March 19, 1906) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum United States Senator from Nebraska, as well as governor of Wyomi...

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Irving Darius Hadley (July 5, 1904 – February 15, 1963) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, he played the major leagues for the Washington Senators (1926–31 an...

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Frederick Tenney (November 26, 1871 – July 3, 1952) was an American professional baseball player whose career spanned 20 seasons, 17 of which were spent with the Major League Baseball (MLB) Boston Be...

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John Lee Richmond, or, more commonly, Lee Richmond or J. Lee Richmond (May 5, 1857, in Sheffield, Ohio – October 1, 1929, in Toledo, Ohio) was a Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitche...

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Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has bee...

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DAR Ancestor #: A033823 Dr. Solomon Drowne (also known as Solomon Drown) (March 11, 1753 – February 5, 1834) was a prominent American physician, academic and surgeon during the American Revolution ...

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Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker. He was the only pe...

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Richard Olney (September 15, 1835 – April 8, 1917) was an American statesman. He served as both United States Attorney General and Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland. As attorney gen...

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Theodora zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg- Glücksburg, Princess of Greece and Denmark. Links: Thepeerage: Geneall: The Royal Grek Family: Wikipedia: English:

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London, United Kingdom

Name/title: Nikolaos zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg- Glücksburg, Prince of Greece and Denmark Links: The Peerage Geneall The Royal Greece Familiy Wikipedia

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James Mitchell Varnum (December 17, 1748 – January 9, 1789) was an American legislator, lawyer and a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Early life James Mitche...

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Stephen Hopkins (March 7, 1707 – July 13, 1785) was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a Chief Justice on the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and a signer of the Declarati...

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Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was a lawyer and Republican politician from the State of New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910), Associate Justi...

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