Albert P. Ruerat

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Albert Pradervand Ruerat (born May 24, 1904 , † August 24, 1987 ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) and from 1937 to 1948 Mayor of Warwick , Rhode Island .

Life

Ruerat had been married since 1925. In 1930 he moved from Providence to Warwick. His political career began in 1933 when a Republican city council member died. In the resulting by-election, Ruerat was able to successfully win a mandate .

In 1936 he ran for mayoral election on November 3rd. The election was a close result and was overshadowed by allegations of fraud. Ruerat finally appealed to the Supreme Court of Rhode Island in December of that year . This meant that the previous Democratic incumbent, John A. O'Brien , who had originally been declared the winner, was defeated by Ruerat by a margin of 549 votes. In the next few years, Ruerat was re-elected five times and held the office of Mayor of Warwick until 1948. In 1948 he declined to run again in order to run for the governor of Rhode Island in the same year . However, he was defeated by 38.4% to 61.2% of the votes cast to the Democratic incumbent John O. Pastore .

Ruerat was an active Freemason and held the office of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island in 1951 .

Ruerat died, meanwhile widowed, in August 1987 after a short illness.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e The Northern Light , page 11 (Vol. 18, No. 4, November 1987)
  2. ↑ https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=99351
  3. ^ Journal bulletin Rhode Island Almanac , p. 108, Providence Journal Bulletin, 1996
  4. ^ Mary H. Blewett: The Yankee Yorkshireman: Migration Lived and Imagined , 107 ( University of Illinois Press , 2009)
  5. ^ A b c d e Donald A. D'Amato: Warwick: A City at the Crossroads , p. 127 (Arcadia Publishing, 2001)
  6. ↑ a b Ruerat v. Cappelli, 188 A. 637 (RI 1936) , www.courtlistener.com
  7. ^ Time , Volume 28, Page 10, 1936
  8. ↑ John Leo Moore, Jon P. Preimesberger, David R. Tarr: Congressional Quarterly's Guide to US Elections , page 1463, Volume 2 (2001)
personal data
SURNAME Ruerat, Albert P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruerat, Albert Pradervand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1904
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1987