PoliticalGraveyard.com
U.S. District Court in Rhode Island
U.S. District Judges for Rhode Island, 1790-2017 (may be
incomplete!)
Henry
Marchant 1790-96
Benjamin
Bourne 1796-1801
David
L. Barnes 1801-12
J.
Russell Bullock 1865-69
John
Power Knowles 1869-81
LeBaron
B. Colt 1881-84
George
Moulton Carpenter 1885
Arthur
Lewis Brown 1896-1927
Ira
Lloyd Letts 1927-35
John
C. Mahoney 1935-40
John
P. Hartigan 1940-51
Francis
Joseph Boyle 1977-92
Bruce
M. Selya 1982-86
William
E. Smith 2002-
John
James McConnell, Jr. 2011-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a
political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872 |
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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. | ||
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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. |
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