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Donald Louis Carcieri [1] (/ k ər ˈ tʃ ɪr i / kər-CHEER-ee; Italian: [karˈtʃɛːri]; born December 16, 1942) is an American politician and corporate executive who served as the 73rd Governor of Rhode Island from January 2003 to January 2011. Carcieri has worked as a manufacturing company executive, aid relief worker, bank executive, and ...
Carcieri v. Salazar , 555 U.S. 379 (2009), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the federal government could not take land into trust that was acquired by the Narragansett Tribe in the late 20th century, as it was not federally recognized until 1983.
Incumbent Republican Donald Carcieri very narrowly defeated Democratic lieutenant governor Charles J. Fogarty in one of the closest gubernatorial elections in Rhode Island history. With a margin of 2%, this election was also the second-closest race of the 2006 gubernatorial election cycle , behind only the election in Minnesota .
In 1986, Carmine Carcieri, a distant relative of future Gov. Donald Carcieri, paid Joseph McDevitt $25,000 to surrender Plate 7 to the Division of Motor Vehicles.
The 2002 Rhode Island gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Republican governor Lincoln Almond was term-limited. Republican Donald Carcieri won the open seat, defeating Democrat Myrth York.
In 2009, Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri nominated Stern for a lifetime appointment to serve as an associate justice on Rhode Island's Superior Court. [1] [2] The Superior court is a trial level court with general jurisdiction over criminal felony matters, and civil cases where the amount in controversy exceeds $10,000 or the claims are brought in equity.
It was preceded by the primary election on September 14, 2010. Incumbent Republican governor Donald Carcieri was term-limited in 2010. The non-partisan Cook Political Report, The New York Times and CQ Politics rated the gubernatorial election as a toss-up. [1] [2] [3]
After serving for thirteen years on the Rhode Island Family Court, Suttell was appointed by Governor Donald L. Carcieri as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court on July 9, 2003. Governor Carcieri also appointed him as the chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court effective July 16, 2009.