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U.S. District Attorneys in Rhode Island

U.S. District Attorneys for Rhode Island, 1790-1998 (may be incomplete!)
William Channing 1790-94 Ray Greene 1794-97 David L. Barnes 1797-1801 David Howell 1801-12 Asher Robbins 1812-20 John Pitman 1820-24 Dutee J. Pearce 1824-25 Richard W. Greene 1825-45 Walter S. Burges 1845-50 James M. Clark 1850-53 George H. Browne 1853-61 Wingate Hayes 1861 Nathan F. Dixon 1877-85 David S. Baker 1885-89 Rathbone Gardner 1889-93 Charles E. Gorman 1893-97 Charles A. Wilson 1897-1911 Walter R. Stiness 1911-14 Harvey A. Baker 1914-20 Peter C. Cannon 1920-21 Norman S. Case 1921-26 Henry M. Boss, Jr. 1926 John S. Murdock 1926-29 Henry M. Boss, Jr. 1929-34 J. Howard McGrath 1934-40 George F. Troy 1940-52 Edward Matthew McEntee 1952 Jacob S. Tenkin 1952-55 Joseph Mainelle 1955-61 Raymond J. Pettine 1961-66 Frederick W. Faerber, Jr. 1966-67 Edward P. Gallogly 1967-69 Lincoln Almond 1969-73 Everette C. Sammartino 1973-78 Paul F. Murray 1978-81 Lincoln Almond 1981-93 Edwin J. Gale 1993 Sheldon Whitehouse 1994-98 Margaret E. Curran 1998

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