Henry F. Lippitt

Henry F. Lippitt

Henry Frederick Lippitt (born October 12, 1856 in Providence , Rhode Island , †  December 28, 1933 ibid) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Rhode Island in the US Senate .

Henry F. Lippitt comes from a family that produced numerous other politicians. His father Henry Lippitt was Governor of Rhode Island from 1875 to 1877 , and his brother Charles held this office from 1895 to 1897. His great-nephew John Chafee , Secretary of State for the Navy from 1969 to 1972, was also governor of the state from 1963 to 1969, and US Senator for Rhode Island from 1976 to 1999; in this position he was followed by his son Lincoln Chafee . Henry F. Lippitt's own son Frederick was also politically active as a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives .

Lippitt attended private schools as a boy and then Brown University , where he graduated in 1878. He then went into the cotton industry, acted as a director of a bank and several insurance companies and was vice president of the Savings bank of Providence. From 1888 to 1889 he was on the staff of Governor Royal C. Taft with the rank of Colonel . Also in 1889, he became president of the New England Cotton Growers' Association .

In 1910 Henry Lippitt was elected to the US Senate, where he served as a Republican from March 4, 1911 to March 3, 1917; he failed to be re-elected in 1916. During his tenure in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures of the Department of Agriculture. After the end of his political career, he returned to the textile industry.

Web links

• Henry F. Lippitt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry F. Lippitt in the database of Find a Grave (English)