caption lieutenant predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place jr/sr party article_title office birth_date order term_start image state term_end name
official lincoln rhode island state house portrait by james sullivan constant diman taber simeon martin isaac wilbour charles collins byron isaac ellery tristam burges wilbour william c. gibbs samuel ward king christopher william isaac wilbour jones lemuel h. arnold charles jackson elisha mathewson 17 april 1846 providence , rhode island providence , rhode island united states senator democratic-republican james fenner
 governor island supreme court of rhode island chief justice of the rhode 22 january 1771 7th , 11th , and 17th 33rd may 2 , 1843 march 4 , 1805 1819 6 , 1807 may 5 , 1824 may govjamesfenner.jpg rhode island may 6 , 1845 september 1807 1819 1 , 1811 may 4 , 1831 may james fenner
james fenner

james fenner -lrb- january 22 , 1771april 17 , 1846 -rrb- was an american politician who served as an united states senator as well as the seventh , 11th and 17th governor of rhode island -lrb- on three separate occasions -rrb- .
he was the son of arthur fenner , the fourth governor of rhode island .
fenner was born in providence , rhode island .
he graduated from brown university in 1789 , and was married to sarah whipple jenckes -lrb- his first cousin , once removed -rrb- on 17 november 1792 .
he served as united states senator from 1805 to 1807 , then gave up his senatorship to become governor of rhode island , two years after his father died in office .
fenner served as governor from 1807 to 1811 , from 1824 to 1831 , and from 1843 to 1845 .
fenner was elected to his first two terms as a democratic-republican and as his third term as a member of the law and order party of rhode island .
in his final term , fenner became the first governor to serve under the rhode island constitution , adopted in 1842 .
fenner died in his mansion `` what cheer '' in 1846 , and was interred in the north burial ground in providence .
fenner had four children with his wife , sarah jenckes : almira theodosia -lrb- 17 january 1793 -- 10 october 1872 -rrb- sarah freelove -lrb- ca. 1799 -- 2 august 1817 -rrb- arthur -lrb- ca. 1810 -- 8 march 1832 -rrb-
