Samuel Ward (May 25, 1725 – March 26, 1776) was an American farmer, politician, Rhode Island Supreme Court justice, governor of the Colony of Rhode Island...

lobbyist and gourmet Samuel Ward (minister) (1577–1640), English Puritan minister of Ipswich Samuel Ward (Rhode Island politician) (1725–1776), governor...

Hartford Convention. Ward was born in Westerly, Rhode Island on November 17, 1756. He was the fifth child of Anne Ray and Samuel Ward, a founding trustee...

Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations from 1741 to 1742 Samuel Ward (Rhode Island politician) (1725–1776), 31st and 33rd...

Samuel Ward King (May 23, 1786 – January 20, 1851) was the 15th Governor of Rhode Island from 1839 to 1843. He was born in Johnston, Rhode Island to William...

Fellela, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives Mat Franco, magician Samuel Ward King, 15th Governor of Rhode Island; enacted laws that led...

Richard Ward (April 15, 1689 – August 21, 1763) was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving for one complete term...

The history of Rhode Island is an overview of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the state of Rhode Island from pre-colonial times...

important responsibility as one of Rhode Island's two delegates to the First Continental Congress, his former rival Samuel Ward being the other. Hopkins had...

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 National Guard and Air...

general of Rhode Island is the chief legal advisor of the government of the State of Rhode Island and oversees the State of Rhode Island Department of...

(November 3, 1799 – October 19, 1856), was a politician and industrialist from the U.S. state of Rhode Island, serving as the 14th Governor, a U.S. Representative...

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. James Burrill...

list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Newport, Rhode Island. Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, Royal Navy William Ellery Channing...

Central Falls is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 22,583 at the 2020 census. With an area of only 1.29 square...

Since the Great Depression, Rhode Island politics have been dominated by the Rhode Island Democratic Party, and the state is considered part of the Democrats'...

The Battle of Rhode Island (also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill) took place on August 29, 1778. Continental Army and Militia forces under the command...

table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Rhode Island: Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State Attorney General Treasurer...

American politician and reformer in Rhode Island, best known for leading the Dorr Rebellion. Thomas Wilson Dorr was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the...

Samuel Ward McAllister (December 28, 1827 – January 31, 1895) was a popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of America, widely accepted as the...

The current lieutenant governor of Rhode Island is Sabina Matos, who was sworn in on April 14, 2021, after Daniel McKee succeeded to the office of governor...

of Rhode Island, serving in this capacity for eight years, five of which were during the American Revolutionary War. From a prominent Rhode Island family...

The 1840 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 15, 1840. Incumbent Whig acting Governor Samuel Ward King won election in his own right...

lieutenant governor, of Rhode Island, and Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Bullock was born to Samuel Bullock (1737-1821) and Silence...

American politician. He was mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, from 1993 to 1999, a United States Senator from 1999 to 2007, and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island...

Governor of Rhode Island. April 4 – the first session of the Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress meets in Halifax, North Carolina with Samuel Johnston...

Walter Clarke (1640–1714) was an early governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the first native-born governor of the colony...

leader in Rhode Island. The same year, one of Greene's younger brothers married a daughter of Samuel Ward, a prominent Rhode Island politician who became...

early settler of Warwick in the colony of Rhode Island. His great-grandfather on his mother's side was Samuel Gorton, the founder of Warwick, and for a...

convention of delegates, from the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode-Island, the counties of Cheshire and Grafton, in the state of New-Hampshire...