Charles Warren Lippitt was an American

United States

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 politician and the 44th Governor of Rhode Island.

Early Life and Family

Lippitt was born in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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 on October 8, 1846. He graduated from Brown University

Brown University

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. Later he was involved in his father’s cotton and woolen manufacturing firm. His father Henry Lippitt

Henry Lippitt

Henry Lippitt was the 33rd Governor of Rhode Island from 1875 to 1877.-Family:Lippitt was the son of Warren Lippitt and Eliza Lippitt, married to Mary Ann Balch. He was the father of Charles Warren Lippitt, another Rhode Island Governor, and the father of Henry F. Lippitt, a U.S...

 was governor of Rhode Island 1875-1877 and his brother Henry F. Lippitt

Henry F. Lippitt

Henry Frederick Lippitt was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, he attended private schools, graduated from Brown University in 1878, and entered the cotton manufacturing business. He was director of a bank and of several mill insurance companies, and was vice president...

 was a U.S. Senator for Rhode Island. He married Margaret B. Farnum February 23, 1886.

Political career

He held the governor's office from May 29, 1895 to May 25, 1897.

He was a candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President in 1896.

Lippitt Hall on the central quad of the University of Rhode Island

University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...

in Kingston is named after Governor Charles W. Lippitt.

He died on April 4, 1924.

Sources

• Sobel, Robert and John Raimo. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978. Greenwood Press, 1988. ISBN 0-313-28093-2