Rhode Island Gubernatorial Portraits, 1775-2015
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Rhode Island Gubernatorial Portraits, 1775-2015
The official portrait of Governor Lincoln D. Chafee was presented to the State of Rhode Island at an event at the Rhode Island State House on Thursday, attended by the artist Julie Gearan and representatives from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Gearan was chosen from among 124 artists entered a national search conducted by the State Arts Council.
State law requires that an official portrait be commissioned for each Governor before he or she leaves office. The fee for this commission is $15,000, the same fee paid for the official portrait of former governors Lincoln Almond and Donald Carcieri.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThe work will now be turned over to the Rhode Island Department of Administration, which will be responsible for hanging the work among other gubernatorial portraits in the Rhode Island State House, with the advice of the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission and the Rhode Island State House Restoration Society.
Check out over 200 years of official portraits in the slideshow below:
Rhode Island Gubernatorial Portraits, 1775-2015
Nicholas Cooke
Years in Office 1775-1778
William Greene
Years in Office 1778-1786
Arthur Fenner
Years in Office 1790-1805
James Fenner
Years in Office 1807-1811
William Jones
Years in Office 1811-1817
Nehemiah R. Knight
Years in Office 1817-1821
William C. Gibbs
Years in Office 1821-1824
James Fenner
Years in Office 1824-1831
Lemuel H. Arnold
Years in Office 1831-1833
John B. Francis
Years in Office 1833-1838
William Sprague III
Years in Office 1838-1839
Samuel Ward King
Years in Office 1839-1843
Thomas Dorr
Years in Office 1839-1843 (extralegal)
James Fenner
Years in Office 1843-1845
Byron Diman
Years in Office 1846-1847
Elisha Harris
Years in Office 1847-1849
Henry B. Anthony
Years in Office 1849-1851
Philip Allen
Years in Office 1851-1853
Francis M. Dimond
Years in Office 1853-1854
William W. Hoppin
Years in Office 1854-1857
Elisha Dyer
Years in Office 1857-1859
Thomas G. Turner
Years in Office 1859-1860
William Sprague IV
Years in Office 1860-1863
William C Cozzens
Year in Office 1863
James Y. Smith
Years in Office 1863-1867
Ambrose Everett Burnside
Years in Office 1867-1869
Seth Padelford
Years in Office 1869-1873
Henry Howard
Years in Office 1873-1875
Henry Lippitt
Years in Office 1875-1877
Charles C. Van Zandt
Years in Office 1877-1880
Alfred H. Littlefield
Years in Office 1880-1883
Augustus O. Bourn
Years in Office 1883-1885
John W. Davis
Years in Office 1887-1888
Royal C. Taft
Years in Office 1888-1889
Herbert W. Ladd
Years in Office 1889-1890
John W. Davis
Years in Office 1890–1891
Herbert W. Ladd
Years in Office 1891–1892
D. Russell Brown
Years in Office 1892–1895
Charles W. Lippitt
Years in Office 1895-1897
Elisha Dyer, Jr.
Years in Office 1897-1900
William Gregory
Years in Office 1900-1901
Charles D. Kimball
Years in Office 1901-1903
Lucius F. C. Garvin
Years in Office 1903-1905
George H. Utter
Years in Office 1905-1907
James H. Higgins
Years in Office 1907-1909
Aram J. Pothier
Years in Office 1907-1915
R. Livingston Beeckman
Years in Office 1915-1921
Emery J. San Souci
Years in Office 1921-1923
William S. Flynn
Years in Office 1923-1925
Aram J. Pothier
Years in Office 1925-1928
Norman S. Case
Years in Office 1928-1933
Theodore Francis Green
Years in Office 1933-1937
Robert E. Quinn
Years in Office 1937-1939
William Henry Vanderbilt
Years in Office 1939-1941
J. Howard McGrath
Years in Office 1941-1945
John Orlando Pastore
Years in Office 1945-1950
John S. McKiernan
Years in Office 1950-1951
Dennis J. Roberts
Years in Office 1951-1959
Christopher Del Sesto
Years in Office 1959-1961
John A. Notte, Jr.
Years in Office 1961-1963
John Hubbard Chafee
Years in Office 1963-1969
Frank Licht
Years in Office 1969-1973
Philip W Noel
Years in Office 1973-1977
J. Joseph Garrahy
Years in Office 1977-1985
Edward D. DiPrete
Years in Office 1985-1991
Bruce Sundlun
Years in Office 1991-1995
Lincoln C. Almond
Years in Office 1995-2003
Donald Carcieri
Years in Office 2003-2011
Lincoln Chafee
Years in Office 2011-2015
