page_title: Lincoln Chafee
section_title: 2016 presidential campaign
hierarchical_section_title: Lincoln Chafee / 2016 presidential campaign
caption_attribution_description: English: Campaign logo for Lincoln Chafee's 2016 Presidential bid
context_page_description: Lincoln Davenport Chafee is an American politician. He was the Governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. Before becoming governor, he was a junior U.S. Senator of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2007.
  In 2016, he made a brief and unsuccessful bid for President of the United States in the 2016 Democratic primaries. In January 2020, Chafee announced he would run again, but this time for the Libertarian nomination. He ended his second campaign in April 2020.
context_section_description: On April 9, 2015, Chafee announced that he had formed an exploratory committee in preparation for a potential candidacy for President of the United States as a Democrat in 2016. He formally declared his candidacy on June 3, 2015.
  Following a widely panned debate performance, poor polling numbers, and a poor fundraising campaign, Lincoln Chafee announced on October 23 that he would be suspending his campaign.
caption: Chafee's 2016 logo
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