death_date children birth_date term_end restingplace alma_mater death_place imagesize preceded term_start spouse image name occupation succeeded birth_place jr/sr party parents state article_title
28 december 1933 frederick lippitt 12 october 1856 march 4 , 1917 swan point cemetery , providence , rhode island brown university providence , rhode island 250px nelson w. aldrich march 4 , 1911 mary 30 , 1910 -rrb- lucy hayes herron laughlin -lrb- november louise 8 , 1877 july 27 , 1961 -rrb- bowen -lrb- december 19 , 1859 november henry f. lippitt ri senator.jpg henry f. lippitt business executive peter g. gerry providence , rhode island united states senator republican henry lippitt rhode island henry f. lippitt

henry f. lippitt

henry frederick lippitt -lrb- october 12 , 1856december 28 , 1933 -rrb- was a united states senator from rhode island .
born in providence , he attended private schools , graduated from brown university in 1878 , and joined his family 's cotton textile manufacturing business .
lippitt was director of the slater trust company of pawtucket and of several mill insurance companies .
he was also vice president of the people 's savings bank of providence .
he served on the governor 's staff with the rank of colonel in 1888-1889 and was president of the new england cotton manufacturers ' association -lrb- now the national textile association -rrb- in the latter year .
lippitt was elected as a united states senator by the rhode island senate as a republican and served from march 4 , 1911 to march 4 , 1917 .
he was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 - the first year in which united states senators were elected by popular vote .
while in the senate , he was chairman of the committee on expenditures in the department of agriculture -lrb- sixty-second congress -rrb- .
after leaving the senate , he again became actively engaged in the textile industry .
he served as chairman of the board of the manville-jenckes tire fabric company of pawtucket .
he was a member of the squantum association , the hope club and the agawam hunt .
in 1892 he joined the rhode island society of the sons of the american revolution .
senator lippitt died in providence in 1933 .
he was interred in the lippitt family plot in the swan point cemetery .
