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Charles Ray Brayton (August 16, 1840 – September 23, 1910) was an American politician and lobbyist.A Republican, The New York Times called him the "Blind Boss of Rhode Island" and drew parallels with the New York City's disgraced political boss William "Boss" Tweed.
The Rhode Island Royal Charter provided royal recognition to the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, approved by England's King Charles II in July 1663. It superseded the 1643 Patent for Settlement and outlined many freedoms for the inhabitants of Rhode Island. It was the guiding document of the colony's government (and that of ...
The widow of Charles Potter of Providence, she was a descendant of Deputy Governor John Greene Jr. and John Greene, an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations who was one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence and a co-founder of the town of Warwick. [2]
Rhode Island was the only New England colony without an established church. [28] Rhode Island had only four churches with regular services in 1650, out of the 109 places of worship with regular services in the New England Colonies (including those without resident clergy), [28] while there was a small Jewish enclave in Newport by 1658. [29]
From 1663 until 1842, Rhode Island's governing state constitution was its original colonial charter granted by King Charles II of England, a political anomaly considering that while most states during the War of Independence and afterwards wrote scores of new constitutions with their newly found independence in mind, Rhode Island instead continued with a document stamped by an English king.
Rhode Island is a charter colony. [4] In the early 1660s, John Clarke was given the task of getting from King Charles II a charter that would both protect the colony from surrounding larger colonies and preserve the religious ideals that had been present with the colony since its beginning. The charter that the colony received was the royal ...
His father, Henry Lippitt, was governor of Rhode Island from 1875 to 1877 and his brother Henry F. Lippitt was a United States senator from Rhode Island. He married Margaret B. Farnum on February 23, 1886. [2] His son, Charles Warren Lippitt, Jr. (1894–1970), served as a sergeant in the 103rd Field Artillery Regiment during
Charles Joseph Fogarty, Jr., also known as Charlie Fogarty (born September 15, 1955) is an American politician who served as the 67th lieutenant governor of Rhode Island. He is a Democrat . Fogarty served two full terms as lieutenant governor, first elected to the position in 1998 and leaving office on January 2, 2007.