page_title: List of people from Rhode Island
section_title: Politics and government
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Rhode Island / Politics and government
caption_attribution_description: English: Senator John Chafee.
context_page_description: This is a list of prominent people who were born in the state of Rhode Island or who spent significant periods of their lives in the state.
context_section_description: A–L
  Lincoln Almond (born 1936) – former governor
  Thomas Angell (1618–1694) – co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
  Jonathan Earle Arnold (1814–1869) – member of the Wisconsin Territorial Council
  Peleg Arnold (1751–1820) – lawyer, tavern-keeper, jurist, and statesman
  Joshua Babcock (1707–1783) – physician, American Revolution general, state Supreme Court justice, and postmaster
  Latimer Whipple Ballou (1812–1900) – member of the House of Representatives
  Sullivan Ballou (1829–1861) – state representative and Army officer
  Oliver Belmont (1858–1908) – charter member of the Rhode Island Society of Sons of the Revolution, Representative for New York
  Charles R. Brayton (1840–1910) – politician and lobbyist whom The New York Times called the "Blind Boss of Rhode Island"
  Samuel W. Bridgham (1776–1740) – first mayor of Providence
  Frank Caprio (born 1936) – judge and television performer
  John Chafee (1922–1999) – U.S. Senator
  Lincoln Chafee (born 1953) – U.S. Senator, governor of Rhode Island, presidential candidate
  Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, Jr. (1941–2016) – former mayor of Providence
  David Cicilline (born 1961) – Representative and Mayor of Providence
  William Coddington (1601–1678) – magistrate of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Judge of Portsmouth, Judge of Newport, Governor of Portsmouth and Newport, Deputy Governor of the entire colony, and governor of the colony
  Thomas Corcoran (1900–1981) – member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Brain Trust" during the New Deal and an advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson
  Percy Daniels (1840–1916) – Populist politician
  Edward D. DiPrete (born 1934) – former governor of Rhode Island
  Thomas Donilon – National Security Adviser under President Barack Obama
  Thomas A. Doyle (1827–1886) – Mayor of Providence for eighteen years
  Job Durfee (1790–1847) – Congressman
  Elisha Dyer, Jr. (1839–1906) – 45th Governor of Rhode Island, mayor of Providence
  William Ellery (1727–1820) – a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Rhode Island
  Arthur Fenner (1745–1805) – fourth governor of Rhode Island
  Michael T. Flynn (born 1958) – retired Army lieutenant general and National Security Advisor
  Theodore Foster (1752–1828) – one of the first two United States Senators from Rhode Island
  Samuel Gorton (1593–1677) – settled Warwick
  Daniel L. D. Granger (1852–1909) – Representative and mayor of Providence
  Theodore F. Green (1867–1866) – United States Senator, 57th Governor of Rhode Island, and namesake of T. F. Green Airport
  Christopher R. Hill (born 1952) – diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  Stephen Hopkins (1707–1785) – Governor of Rhode Island, RI Supreme Court justice, Signatory of the Declaration of Independence
  Joseph B. Keenan – Chief Prosecutor in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
  Ambrose Kennedy (1875–1967) – Congressman
  Pat LaMarche (born 1960) – Green Party presidential candidate
  William C. Lovering (1835–1910) – Congressman
  M–Z
  James McAndrews (1862–1942) – Congressman
  William McCormick (born 1939) – diplomat, United States Ambassador to New Zealand
  J. Howard McGrath (1903–1966) – Governor of Rhode Island, Solicitor General, Senator, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Attorney General of the United States
  Edwin D. McGuinness (1856–1901) – first Irish-Catholic mayor of Providence
  Florence K. Murray (1916–2004) – officer in Women's Army Corps, first female state senator in Rhode Island, first female judge in Rhode Island, and first female member of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
  Dee Dee Myers (born 1961) – White House Press Secretary
  Annette Nazareth (born 1956) – commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission
  Joseph R. Paolino, Jr. – U.S. Ambassador to Malta, former Mayor of Providence
  John O. Pastore (1907–2000) – Governor of Rhode Island, Senator
  Claiborne Pell (1918–2009) – Senator, diplomat, sponsor of Pell grants
  Aram J. Pothier (1854–1928) – Governor of Rhode Island, banker
  Jack Reed (born 1949) – Senator
  Dennis J. Roberts (1903–1994
caption: John Chafee
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