Former Gov. Lincoln Chafee: A Timeline
Former Gov. Lincoln Chafee: A Timeline
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Elected Governor as an Independent with 36.1% def. John Robitaille (R)
33.6%, Frank Caprio (D) 23.0%, and Ken Block (M) 6.5%. |
May 29 - Announces he is joining the
Democratic Party. Sept. 4 - Announces he will not seek re-election. |
Jan. 6 - Finishes
tenure as governor. |
Jan. 20 - Age on
Inauguration Day 63 years old, 9.9 months. |
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| Nov. - Elected to the U.S. Senate,
def. Robert A. Weygand (D). |
Sept. 12 - Defeats Steve Laffey (R)
by 54.2% to 45.8% in the primary. Nov. 7 - Loses to Sheldon Whitehouse (D) by 53.5% -46.5%. |
Sept. - Leaves the
Republican Party. |
April 1 - Author of Against the Tide (Thomas Dunne
Books). |
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| Nov. - Defeated in
run for Mayor of Warwick. |
Advocate for clean energy and
electrifying the Northeast rail corriedor. |
Nov. - Elected Mayor of Warwick,
1992-99. |
Nov. 2 - Appointed
as a Republican to the U.S. Senate following the death of his father. |
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Delegate to the
Rhode Island constitutional convention. |
Member of the Warwick City Council,
1986-92. |
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| B.A. in Classics from Brown
University. |
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Seven years as a blacksmith at harness racetracks in the U.S. and Canada. |
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| [Nov.-Father, John Chafee, elected
Gov. serves to Jan. 1969]. |
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| Born Mar. 26, 1953
in Warwick, RI. |
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| Copyright
© 2015 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action |
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