Governors of Rhode Island, 1732-2020(May beincomplete!) WilliamWanton 1732-33JohnWanton 1734-40RichardWard 1740-43WilliamGreene 1743-45GideonWanton 1745-46WilliamGreene 1746-47GideonWanton 1747-48WilliamGreene 1748-55StephenHopkins 1755-57WilliamGreene 1757-58StephenHopkins 1758-62SamuelWard 1762-63StephenHopkins 1763-65SamuelWard 1765-67StephenHopkins 1767-68JosiasLyndon 1768-69JosephWanton 1769-75NicholasCooke 1775-78WilliamGreene 1778-86JohnCollins 1786-90ArthurFenner 1790-1805HenrySmith 1805-06IsaacWilbour 1806-07JamesFenner 1807-11WilliamJones 1811-17NehemiahR. Knight 1817-21EdwardWilcox 1821WilliamC. Gibbs 1821-24JamesFenner 1824-31LemuelH. Arnold 1831-33JohnBrown Francis 1833-38WilliamSprague 1838-39SamuelWard King 1839-43JamesFenner 1843-45CharlesJackson 1845-46ByronDiman 1846-47ElishaHarris 1847-49HenryB. Anthony 1849-51PhilipAllen 1851-53FrancisM. Dimond 1853-54WilliamW. Hoppin 1854-57ElishaDyer 1857-59ThomasG. Turner 1859-60WilliamSprague 1860-63WilliamC. Cozzens 1863JamesY. Smith 1863-66AmbroseE. Burnside 1866-69SethPadelford 1869-73HenryHoward 1873-75HenryLippitt 1875-77CharlesC. Van Zandt 1877-80AlfredH. Littlefield 1880-83AugustusO. Bourn 1883-85GeorgeP. Wetmore 1885-87JohnW. Davis 1887-88RoyalC. Taft 1888-89HerbertW. Ladd 1889-90JohnW. Davis 1890-91HerbertW. Ladd 1891-92D.Russell Brown 1892-95CharlesW. Lippitt 1895-97ElishaDyer, Jr. 1897-1900WilliamGregory 1900-01CharlesD. Kimball 1901-03LuciusF. C. Garvin 1903-05GeorgeH. Utter 1905-07JamesH. Higgins 1907-09AramJ. Pothier 1909-15R.Livingston Beeckman 1915-21EmeryJ. San Souci 1921-23WilliamS. Flynn 1923-25AramJ. Pothier 1925-28NormanS. Case 1928-33TheodoreF. Green 1933-37RobertE. Quinn 1937-39WilliamH. Vanderbilt 1939-41J.Howard McGrath 1941-45JohnO. Pastore 1945-50JohnS. McKiernan 1950-51DennisJ. Roberts 1951-59ChristopherDel Sesto 1959-61JohnA. Notte, Jr. 1961-63JohnH. Chafee 1963-69FrankLicht 1969-73PhilipW. Noel 1973-77J.Joseph Garrahy 1977-85EdwardDaniel DiPrete 1985-91BruceSundlun 1991-95LincolnAlmond 1995-2003DonaldL. Carcieri 2003-11LincolnChafee 2011-15GinaRaimondo 2015- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1733:WilliamWanton, died in office. 1740 Jul 5:JohnWanton, died in office. 1758 Feb 22:WilliamGreene, died in office. 1805 Oct 15:ArthurFenner, died in office. 1818:ElishaR. Potter, defeated. 1836:TristamBurges (Whig), defeated. 1853 Jul 20:PhilipAllen, resigned. 1861:JamesY. Smith (Rep), defeated. 1863 Mar 3:WilliamSprague, resigned. 1893:GeorgeE. Boomer (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1895 Apr 3:CharlesW. Lippitt (Rep), elected. 1896 Apr 1:CharlesW. Lippitt (Rep), elected. 1901 Dec 16:WilliamGregory, died in office. 1908:OlneyArnold (Dem), defeated. 1909:OlneyArnold (Dem), defeated. 1912 Nov 5:AramJ. Pothier (Rep), elected;TheodoreF. Green (Dem), defeated;AlbertH. Humes (Progressive), defeated;SamuelH. Fassel (Socialist), defeated;WillisH. White (Prohibition), defeated;ThomasF. Herrick (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1914 Nov 3:R.Livingston Beeckman (Rep), elected;PatrickH. Quinn (Dem), defeated;EdwardW. Theinert (Socialist), defeated;FredD. Thompson (Progressive), defeated;ErnestL. Merry (Prohibition), defeated;PeterMcDermott (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1916 Nov 7:R.Livingston Beeckman (Rep), elected;AddisonP. Munroe (Dem), defeated;JohnH. Holloway (Socialist), defeated;RoscoeW. Phillips (Prohibition), defeated;ThomasF. Herrick (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1918 Nov 5:R.Livingston Beeckman (Rep), elected;AlbericA. Archambault (Dem), defeated;ErnestSherwood (Socialist), defeated. 1920 Nov 2:EmeryJ. San Souci (Rep), elected;EdwardM. Sullivan (Dem), defeated;ErnestSherwood (Socialist), defeated;PeterMcDermott (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1922 Nov 7:WilliamS. Flynn (Dem), elected;HaroldJ. Gross (Rep), defeated;CharlesF. Bishop (Socialist Labor), defeated;GeorgeW. Miller (Labor), defeated. 1924 Nov 4:AramJ. Pothier (Rep), elected;FelixA. Toupin (Dem), defeated;EdwardW. Theinert (Workers), defeated;CharlesF. Bishop (Socialist Labor), defeated;FrederickW. A. Hurst (Socialist), defeated. 1926 Nov 2:AramJ. Pothier (Rep), elected;JosephH. Gainer (Dem), defeated;PeterMcDermott (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1928:TheodoreF. Green (Dem), defeated in primary. 1928 Feb 3:AramJ. Pothier, died in office. 1928 Nov 6:NormanS. Case (Rep), elected;AlbericA. Archambault (Dem), defeated;CharlesF. Bishop (Socialist Labor), defeated;EdwardW. Theinert (Workers), defeated. 1930 Nov 4:NormanS. Case (Rep), elected;TheodoreF. Green (Dem), defeated;CharlesH. Dana (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1932 Nov 8:TheodoreF. Green (Dem), elected;NormanS. Case (Rep), defeated;FrederickW. A. Hurst (Socialist), defeated;JamesP. Reid (Communist), defeated;RoscoeW. Phillips (Prohibition), defeated;CharlesF. Bishop (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1934 Nov 6:TheodoreF. Green (Dem), elected;LukeH. Callan (Rep), defeated;JosephM. Coldwell (Socialist), defeated. 1936 Nov 3:RobertE. Quinn (Dem), elected;CharlesP. Sisson (Rep), defeated;CharlesF. Bishop (Socialist Labor), defeated;JamesP. Reid (Communist), defeated. 1938 Nov 8:WilliamH. Vanderbilt (Rep & Good Government), elected;RobertE. Quinn (Dem), defeated;WalterE. O'Hara (Square Deal), defeated;MorrisKominsky (Communist), defeated. 1940 Nov 5:J.Howard McGrath (Dem), elected;WilliamH. Vanderbilt (Rep), defeated;WilfredJ. Boissy (Communist), defeated. 1942 Nov 3:J.Howard McGrath (Dem), elected;JamesO. McManus (Rep), defeated. 1944 Nov 7:J.Howard McGrath (Dem), elected;NormanD. MacLeod (Rep), defeated. 1945 Oct 6:J.Howard McGrath, resigned. 1946 Nov 5:JohnO. Pastore (Dem), elected;JohnG. Murphy (Rep), defeated. 1948 Nov 2:JohnO. Pastore (Dem), elected;AlbertP. Ruerat (Rep), defeated;ClemensJ. France (Progressive), defeated. 1950 Nov 7:DennisJ. Roberts (Dem), elected;EugeneJ. Lachapelle (Rep), defeated. 1950 Dec 19:JohnO. Pastore, resigned. 1952 Nov 4:DennisJ. Roberts (Dem), elected;RaoulArchambault, Jr. (Rep), defeated. 1954 Nov 2:DennisJ. Roberts (Dem), elected;DeanJ. Lewis (Rep), defeated;ArthurE. Marley (Ind), defeated. 1956 Nov 6:DennisJ. Roberts (Dem), elected;ChristopherDel Sesto (Rep), defeated. 1958 Nov 4:ChristopherDel Sesto (Rep), elected;DennisJ. Roberts (Dem), defeated. 1962:JohnA. Notte, Jr. (Dem), defeated. 1966:HoraceE. Hobbs (Dem), defeated. 1970 Nov 3:JohnE. Powers (Socialist Workers), defeated. 1978:LincolnAlmond (Rep), defeated. 1980 Nov 4:BuddyCianci (Rep), defeated. 1984 Sep 11:AnthonyJ. Solomon (Dem), nominated. 1984 Nov 6:AnthonyJ. Solomon (Dem), defeated. 1986:BruceSundlun (Dem), defeated. 1988:BruceSundlun (Dem), defeated. 1990:JosephR. Paolino, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary. 1990:BruceSundlun (Dem), elected. 1994:BruceSundlun (Dem), defeated in primary. 1994:RonaldK. Machtley (Rep), defeated;MyrthYork (Dem), defeated;LincolnAlmond (Rep), elected. 1998:LincolnAlmond (Rep), elected;MyrthYork (Dem), defeated. 2002:SheldonWhitehouse (Dem), defeated in primary. 2002:MyrthYork (Dem), defeated. 2014 Sep 9:AngelTaveras (Dem), defeated in primary. 2014 Nov 4:GinaRaimondo (Dem), elected. | |