The Political Graveyard: Rhode Island: U.S. Representatives

Rhode Island: U.S. Representatives

U.S. Representatives from Rhode Island, 1790-2007 (May be incomplete!)

At-Large: Benjamin Bourne 1790-96 Francis Malbone 1793-97 Elisha R. Potter 1796-97 Christopher G. Champlin 1797-1801 Thomas Tillinghast 1797-99 John Brown 1799-1801 Joseph Stanton, Jr. 1801-07 Thomas Tillinghast 1801-03 Nehemiah Knight 1803-08 Isaac Wilbour 1807-09 Richard Jackson, Jr. 1808 Richard Jackson, Jr. 1811-15 Elisha R. Potter 1811-15 John Linscom Boss, Jr. 1815-19 James B. Mason 1815-19 Samuel Eddy 1819-25 Nathaniel Hazard 1819-20 Job Durfee 1821-25 Tristam Burges 1825-35 Dutee J. Pearce 1825-37 William Sprague 1835-37 Robert B. Cranston 1837-43 Joseph L. Tillinghast 1837-43
1st District: Richard Jackson, Jr. 1809-11 Henry Y. Cranston 1843-47 Robert B. Cranston 1847-49 George Gordon King 1849-53 Thomas Davis 1853-55 Nathaniel B. Durfee 1855-59 Christopher Robinson 1859-61 William Paine Sheffield 1861-63 Thomas Allen Jenckes 1863-71 Benjamin T. Eames 1871-79 Nelson W. Aldrich 1879-81 Henry J. Spooner 1881-91 Oscar Lapham 1891-95 Melville Bull 1895-1903 Daniel L. D. Granger 1903-09 William Paine Sheffield 1909-11 George F. O'Shaunessy 1911-19 Clark Burdick 1919-33 Francis B. Condon 1933-35 Charles F. Risk 1935-37 Aimé J. Forand 1937-39 Charles F. Risk 1939-41 Aimé J. Forand 1941-61 Fernand J. St. Germain 1961-89 Ronald K. Machtley 1989-95 Patrick J. Kennedy 1995-
2nd District: Elisha R. Potter 1809-11 Elisha Reynolds Potter 1843-45 Lemuel H. Arnold 1845-47 Benjamin B. Thurston 1847-49 Nathan Fellows Dixon II 1849-51 Benjamin B. Thurston 1851-57 William Daniel Brayton 1857-61 George H. Browne 1861-63 Nathan Fellows Dixon II 1863-71 James M. Pendleton 1871-75 Latimer Whipple Ballou 1875-81 Jonathan Chace 1881-85 Nathan F. Dixon 1885 William Almy Pirce 1885-87 Charles H. Page 1887 Warren O. Arnold 1887-91 Charles H. Page 1891-93 Charles H. Page 1893-95 Warren O. Arnold 1895-97 Adin B. Capron 1897-1911 George H. Utter 1911-12 Peter G. Gerry 1913-15 Walter R. Stiness 1915-23 Richard S. Aldrich 1923-33 John M. O'Connell 1933-39 Harry Sandager 1939-41 John E. Fogarty 1941-44 John E. Fogarty 1945-67 Robert O. Tiernan 1967-75 Edward Peter Beard 1975-81 Claudine Schneider 1981-91 Jack Reed 1991-97 Robert A. Weygand 1997-2001 James R. Langevin 2001-
3rd District: Ambrose Kennedy 1913-23 Jeremiah E. O'Connell 1923-27 Louis Monast 1927-29 Jeremiah E. O'Connell 1929-30 Francis B. Condon 1930-33

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1808 Jun 13: Nehemiah Knight, died in office.

1820 Dec 17: Nathaniel Hazard, died in office.

1844: Elisha Reynolds Potter, defeated.

1862: George H. Browne, defeated.

1885 Jan 26: Jonathan Chace, resigned.

1892: Adin B. Capron (Rep), defeated.

1902: Melville Bull (Rep), defeated.

1909 Feb 14: Daniel L. D. Granger, died in office.

1918: Theodore F. Green (Dem), defeated.

1914 Nov 3: George F. O'Shaunessy (Dem), elected; Roswell B. Burchard (Rep), defeated; Benjamin F. Lindemuth (Progressive), defeated; John W. Higgins (Socialist), defeated; William E. Brightman (Prohibition), defeated.

1912 Nov 3: George H. Utter, died in office.

1914 Nov 3: Walter R. Stiness (Rep), elected; Peter G. Gerry (Dem), defeated; Paul F. Schmidt (Socialist), defeated; Claude C. Ball (Progressive), defeated; Frederick M. Matteson (Prohibition), defeated.

1928: Louis Monast (Rep), defeated.

1920 Nov 2: Clark Burdick (Rep), elected; Patrick J. Boyle (Dem), defeated.

1922 Nov 7: Clark Burdick (Rep), elected; George F. O'Shaunessy (Dem), defeated.

1924 Nov 4: Clark Burdick (Rep), elected; Alfred H. Jones (Dem), defeated.

1920 Nov 2: Walter R. Stiness (Rep), elected; Luigi De Pasquale (Dem), defeated; Charles Hermann (Socialist), defeated; B. J. Murray (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1922 Nov 7: Richard S. Aldrich (Rep), elected; Percy J. Cantwell (Dem), defeated.

1924 Nov 4: Richard S. Aldrich (Rep), elected; Charles M. Hall (Dem), defeated.

1920 Nov 2: Ambrose Kennedy (Rep), elected; Herve J. Legace (Dem), defeated; W. A. Carpenter (Socialist), defeated.

1922 Nov 7: Jeremiah E. O'Connell (Dem), elected; Isaac Gill (Rep), defeated.

1924 Nov 4: Jeremiah E. O'Connell (Dem), elected; Louis Monast (Rep), defeated.

1940 Nov 5: Aimé J. Forand (Dem), elected; Charles F. Risk (Rep), defeated.

1942 Nov 3: Aimé J. Forand (Dem), elected; Charles H. Eden (Rep), defeated.

1946 Nov 5: Aimé J. Forand (Dem), elected; Raymond A. Mailloux (Rep), defeated; Charles R. Napier (Constitutional Government), defeated.

1940: Thomas J. Paolino (Rep), defeated in primary.

1940 Nov 5: John E. Fogarty (Dem), elected; Harry Sandager (Rep), defeated.

1942 Nov 3: John E. Fogarty (Dem), elected; Harry Sandager (Rep), defeated.

1946 Nov 5: John E. Fogarty (Dem), elected; John J. Kelly, Jr. (Rep), defeated.

1956: Thomas H. Needham (Rep), defeated.

1968: Lincoln Almond (Rep), defeated.

1967: John A. Notte, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary.

1967 Jan 10: John E. Fogarty, died in office.

1970 Nov 3: Fernand J. St. Germain (Dem), elected; Walter J. Miska (Rep), defeated; Stephen Bruce Murray (Peace and Freedom), defeated. Robert O. Tiernan (Dem), elected; William A. Dimitri, Jr. (Rep), defeated; Louis Dona G. O'Hara (The O'Hara Bill), defeated.

1986 Nov 4: Fernand J. St. Germain (Dem), elected; John A. Holmes (Rep), defeated.

1988 Nov 8: Ronald K. Machtley (Rep), elected; Fernand J. St. Germain (Dem), defeated.

1986 Nov 4: Claudine Schneider (Rep), elected; Donald J. Ferry (Dem), defeated.

1988 Nov 8: Claudine Schneider (Rep), elected; Ruth S. Morgenthau (Dem), defeated.

1998: Rod Driver (Rep), defeated in primary.

1990 Nov 6: Ronald K. Machtley (Rep), elected; Scott Wolf (Dem), defeated.

1992 Nov 3: Ronald K. Machtley (Rep), elected; David R. Carlin, Jr. (Dem), defeated; Frederick E. Dick (Perot Independent), defeated; Norman J. Jacques (Ind), defeated.

1994 Nov 8: Patrick J. Kennedy (Dem), elected; Kevin Vigilante (Rep), defeated.

1996 Nov 5: Patrick J. Kennedy (Dem), elected; Giovanni D. Cicione (Rep), defeated; Michael J. Rollins (Ind), defeated; Graham R. Schwass (Ind), defeated; Gregory Raposa (Ind), defeated.

1998 Nov 3: Patrick J. Kennedy (Dem), elected; Ronald G. Santa (Rep), defeated; James C. Sheehan (Reform), defeated; Charles Picerno (Ind), defeated.

1990 Nov 6: Jack Reed (Dem), elected; Gertrude M. Coxe (Rep), defeated.

1992 Nov 3: Jack Reed (Dem), elected; James W. Bell (Rep), defeated; Thomas J. Ricci (Ind), defeated; John Turnbull (Independent Thinking), defeated.

1994 Nov 8: Jack Reed (Dem), elected; A. John Elliot (Rep), defeated.

1996: John O. Matson (Rep), defeated in primary.

1996 Nov 5: Robert A. Weygand (Dem), elected; Richard E. Wild (Rep), defeated; Thomas J. Ricci (Ind), defeated; Gail Alison Casman (Ind), defeated; Jack D. Potter (Ind), defeated.

1998 Nov 3: Robert A. Weygand (Dem), elected; John O. Matson (Rep), defeated; Timothy L. Miller (Reform), defeated.

2000 Nov 7: Patrick J. Kennedy (Dem), elected; Stephen Cabral (Rep), defeated.

2002 Nov 5: Patrick J. Kennedy (Dem), elected.

2000 Nov 7: James R. Langevin (Dem), elected; Rod Driver (Conscience for Congress), defeated; Robert G. Tingle (Rep), defeated; Dorman J. Hayes, Jr. (Green), defeated.

2002 Nov 5: James R. Langevin (Dem), elected.

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