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State flag of Rhode Island Location of Rhode Island on the U.S. map This is a list of prominent people who were born in the state of Rhode Island or who spent significant periods of their lives in the state. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Academia Elizabeth Buffum Chace ...
Rhode Island’s sole billionaire Jonathan Nelson, of Providence Equity Partners, lives in Providence and is worth $3.1 billion, according to Forbes. More: RI billionaires club a lonely place. See ...
The following people lived in Rhode Island prior to Colonial settlement: [1] Wampanoag people lived throughout Plymouth Colony and around Mount Hope Bay in Bristol, Rhode Island. Massasoit, tribal leader, met the Pilgrims at Plymouth; Wamsutta, son of Massasoit, renamed Alexander; became tribal leader upon father's death but died shortly after
This category includes people who were notable in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations prior to the era of American Revolution. That is, they were notable before about 1765. People who are primarily associated with the Revolutionary era are located Category:People of Rhode Island in the American Revolution, instead of this ...
Jabez Bowen, federalist supporter, Deputy Governor of Rhode Island and Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court [24] John Brown, co-founder of Brown University, U.S. Representative [25] John Chafee, Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Navy, and United States Senator [26] Zechariah Chafee, lawyer, academic and civil libertarian [27]
The South County History Center has found a 1767 reference to "the South County" in written testimony about taxation by Levi Whipple. The name stuck, even after 1781, when the county was named for ...
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When the State House was being built in 1895, the Rhode Island Historical Society requested that a statue of Roger Williams sit atop the new capitol building, but architect Charles McKim worried ...