PoliticalGraveyard.com

Politicians in Miscellaneous Occupations in Rhode Island

William Astor Chanler (1867-1934) — of New York, New York County, N.Y.; Barrytown, Dutchess County, N.Y.; Paris, France. Born in Newport, Newport County, R.I., June 11, 1867. Democrat. Explorer; author; member of New York state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1898; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Representative from New York 14th District, 1899-1901. Member, Tammany Hall. Injured in an automobile accident in France, 1915, and lost a lower leg. Died in Mentone (Menton), France, March 4, 1934 (age 66 years, 266 days). Interment at Trinity Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor (Ward) Chanler; brother of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler; married 1903 to Minnie 'Beatrice' Ashley; grandnephew of John Jacob Astor III; second great-grandson of John Armstrong Jr.; second great-grandnephew of Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), James Armstrong and Edward Livingston; third great-grandson of John Armstrong and Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775); fourth great-grandson of Robert Livingston (1688-1775); fourth great-grandnephew of John Livingston and Gilbert Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder and Robert Livingston the Younger; fifth great-grandnephew of Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); sixth great-grandson of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724); first cousin once removed of William Waldorf Astor; first cousin five times removed of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, William Livingston, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer and James Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746) and Philip P. Schuyler; first cousin seven times removed of David Davidse Schuyler and Myndert Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and Maturin Livingston; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Stephen John Schuyler, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792) and Peter Samuel Schuyler; third cousin thrice removed of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay, Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, Philip Schuyler, James Alexander Hamilton, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), William Jay, Gerrit Smith, Charles Ludlow Livingston, Hamilton Fish and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; fourth cousin of Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills and Robert Reginald Livingston.   Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   Ralph Fordyce Chesbrough (b. 1885) — also known as Ralph F. Chesbrough — Born in Providence, Providence County, R.I., July 1, 1885. Traveling salesman; interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Beirut, as of 1914-17; U.S. Consul in Trebizond, as of 1919. Burial location unknown.   Charles Edwin Franklin (1851-1932) — also known as Charles E. Franklin — of Mansfield, Tolland County, Conn. Born in East Greenwich, Kent County, R.I., December 11, 1851. Democrat. Salesman; candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from Mansfield, 1908, 1918, 1926. Died in Mansfield, Tolland County, Conn., November 20, 1932 (age 80 years, 345 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of George W. Franklin and Joanna (Reynolds) Franklin; married, February 1, 1887, to Ida Euretta Chappell.   Ernest Sherwood — of Rhode Island. Born in England. Socialist. Salesman; candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, 1918, 1920; delegate to Socialist National Convention from Rhode Island, 1920. Burial location unknown.   Robert A. Weygand (b. 1948) — of East Providence, Providence County, R.I.; Saunderstown, Narragansett, Washington County, R.I. Born in Attleboro, Bristol County, Mass., May 10, 1948. Democrat. Landscape architect; member of Rhode Island state house of representatives, 1985-93; Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island, 1993-97; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, 1996, 2000, 2004; U.S. Representative from Rhode Island 2nd District, 1997-2001; candidate for U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 2000. Still living as of 2014.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/misc-occ.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.