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William West's house in Scituate, Rhode Island, built in 1775. West was born in North Kingstown, Colony of Rhode Island in about 1733 to Alice Sweet and John West, a great-grandson of Pilgrim, George Soule. [2] West's father was a large landowner and his mother sold "jonnycakes" during the American Revolution. [3]
William West (Rhode Island politician) Damian Wroblewski This page was last edited on 10 January 2025, at 02:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The governor of Rhode Island is the head of government of Rhode Island and serves as commander-in-chief of the U.S. state's Army ... William West: 1781: Jabez Bowen ...
Scituate's William West and South Kingstown's Jonathan Hazard were leaders of the rural Country Party which opposed the Constitution. The party "was suspicious of the power and the cost of a government too far removed from the grass-roots level, and so it declined to dispatch delegates to the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, which drafted the United States Constitution.
The early Rhode Island inhabitants named in the Rhode Island Royal Charter, dated July 8, 1663 and signed with the royal seal by King Charles II; this charter was the basis for Rhode Island's government for nearly two centuries: [38] Author: John Clarke; Governor: Benedict Arnold; Deputy Governor: William Brenton; Assistants: William Baulston ...
William West (Rhode Island politician) (c. 1733–1816), American militia general in the American Revolutionary War and later political leader; William West, 1st Baron De La Warr (c. 1520–1595), British political figure; William H. West (judge) (1824–1911), politician and member of the Ohio Supreme Court, 1872–1873
William John Murphy (born January 4, 1963) is an American attorney and was a Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, representing the 26th District from 1993 to 2011. He served as the 221st Speaker of the House from January 7, 2003, to February 11, 2010, when he handed over the gavel to his majority leader, Gordon D. Fox .
In Rhode Island, the lieutenant governor and governor of Rhode Island are elected on separate tickets. Seven lieutenant governors have served during a vacancy in the office of governor under the current 1842 constitution: Francis M. Dimond (1853), William C. Cozzens (1863), Charles D. Kimball (1901), Norman Case (1928), John Pastore (1945), and ...