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    Joseph Jenckes (1656 – 15 June 1740) was a deputy governor and governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Jenckes was the son...
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  • Jr. (1628–1717), founder of Pawtucket, Rhode Island Joseph Jenckes (governor) (1656–1740), governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations...
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  • Plantations Governors Samuel Cranston, Governor (1698–1727) Joseph Jenckes, Governor (1727–1732) William Wanton, Governor (1732–1733) John Wanton, Governor (1734–1740)...
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  • a governor of colonial Rhode Island. Joseph Jenckes was baptized on August 26, 1599, at St. Ann Blackfriars, London. His parents were John Jenckes Sr...
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  • sibling died in England, his father, Joseph Jenckes Sr., immigrated to New England. A few years later, in about 1647, Jenckes Jr. joined his father at his forge...
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    – May 3, 1715 Joseph Jenckes, of Providence; May 3, 1715 – May 3, 1721 John Wanton, of Newport; May 3, 1721 – May 2, 1722 Joseph Jenckes, of Providence;...
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  • Cranston of Newport; circa March 1698 - May 1727 (29 years 2 months.) Joseph Jenckes of Providence; May 1727 - May 1732 William Wanton of Newport; May 1732...
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    Gardner Chase) until he retired and sold the building to Edward L. Jenckes. After Jenckes' death in 1924, his daughters E. Mialma and Helen R. continued to...
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    married Sarah Scott in 1726, the daughter of Sylvanus Scott and Joanna Jenckes and a descendant of Providence Plantations settlers Richard Scott and Katharine...
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    grandmother, Mary Carpenter, was descended from Elizabeth Jenckes, sister of Joseph Jenckes, Governor of Rhode Island. The mother's ancestry included Nathaniel...
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    Mike Pence (redirect from Governor Pence)
    administration. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives...
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    a candle by the doorway. "The man with his back to the table is Daniel Jenckes." Two sailors are dancing, possibly "Nicholas Power [giving] a dancing...
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    Joseph Albert Wright (April 17, 1810 – May 11, 1867) was the tenth governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 5, 1849, to January 12, 1857, most...
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    Frank Hanly (category Republican Party governors of Indiana)
    served as a congressman from Indiana from 1895 until 1897, and was the 26th governor of Indiana from 1905 to 1909. He was the founder of Hanly's Flying Squadron...
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    Joseph Ewing McDonald (August 29, 1819 – June 21, 1891) was an American politician who served as a United States representative and Senator from Indiana...
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    Thomas A. Hendricks (category Democratic Party governors of Indiana)
    an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United...
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    Pineapple Press Inc. pp. 112–114. ISBN 978-1-56164-139-0. East, Omega G.; Jenckes, H. B. (1952). "St. Augustine during the Civil War". The Florida Historical...
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  • Henry Tew (1654 - 26 Apr 1718) was a deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was the son of Richard and Mary (Clarke)...
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  • selected to complete the term as Deputy Governor of Jonathan Nichols who had died in office. He served under Joseph Jenckes who had just taken office the same...
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    terms as governor. He was the first Democratic governor since the 1850s and the first Pawtucket resident in the State House since Joseph Jenckes Jr. in...
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    Newton W. Gilbert (category Governors-general of the Philippine Islands)
    lieutenant governor of Indiana, a member of the Indiana State Senate, a representative in the United States House of Representatives, and an acting governor-general...
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    John Wanton (category Colonial governors of Rhode Island)
    preceded him as governor, and his nephews Gideon Wanton and Joseph Wanton were later governors of the colony. List of colonial governors of Rhode Island...
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    shot into a crowd of a 1,000 people who had gathered at the plant of the Jenckes Spinning Company. Juan D'Assumpcau, a nearby grocer clerk, was killed by...
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    Capt. Jonathan Nichols Sr. (10 June 1681 – 2 August 1727) was a deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was the son...
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    Alvin Peterson Hovey (category Republican Party governors of Indiana)
    S. Supreme Court two years later. In 1854, Hovey was appointed by Governor Joseph A. Wright to fill a vacancy on the Indiana Supreme Court until an election...
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    and Isabella Mary (1805–1863) married in 1833 Joseph S. Jenckes. Greene's grandfather was colonial governor William Greene Sr., and both his father and...
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    century before. Tweed's great-uncle, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., served as Governor of Puerto Rico in the early 20th century. In May 2009, Roosevelt led the...
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    William Wanton (category Colonial governors of Rhode Island)
    him as governor, his nephew Gideon Wanton was later governor, and his son Joseph Wanton, who had loyalist sympathies, was deposed as governor at the beginning...
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    Carolina Site Luke Jillson House St. Joseph's Church Complex Lewis Tower House Tower-Flagg Barn Complex Whipple-Jenckes House Metcalf-Franklin Farm U.S. Geological...
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    descendant of Joseph Jenckes Jr., who founded Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and from Joseph Jenckes, his son, who for twenty years, was governor of the Colony...
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