Joseph Mills (politician, 1902)

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Joseph Mills (born July 31, 1902 in Providence , Rhode Island , † before or in 1962) was an American politician . He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1939 to 1948 . From 1949 to 1952 and again from 1955 to 1956 he was Mayor of Warwick , Rhode Island.

Life

Mills attended high school in Cranston , where he earned his degree in 1918, and the Wentworth Institute where he graduated 1,923th

From January 1939 to 1948, he was a Republican in the Rhode Island House of Representatives.

When the previous mayor of Warwick, Albert P. Ruerat , refused to run again in 1948 in order to run for the governor of Rhode Island in the same year , Mills applied to the primary of his party. However, he was subject to George Salter, who was favored by Ruerat and the party leadership. Mills then resigned from the party and ran as an independent (with the support of the Democratic Party ) in mayoral election. He won this against Salter with 7,881 to 7,335 votes. In 1950 he was re-elected when he was able to prevail with 8,257 to 7,710 votes against Thomas Casey Greene , chairman of the Republican Party of Rhode Island. In the mayoral election in 1952 he was defeated by the Republican candidate Darius L. Goff . Goff himself was replaced by Mills after one term after Mills achieved 12,473 to 10,197 votes in the next mayoral election in 1954. In 1956 Mills declined to run for mayor and withdrew from politics.

Mills was married.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c State of Rhode Island Manual , p. 438 (Rhode Island Department of State, 1954)
  2. ^ Journal-Bulletin Almanac , 210, Providence Journal Company, 1962
  3. ↑ a b Acts and Resolves passed by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, at the Special November Session, AD 1959 and at the January Session, AD 1960 , page 1494 (1959)
  4. ^ Journal bulletin Rhode Island Almanac , p. 108, Providence Journal Bulletin, 1996
  5. ^ A b c d Donald A. D'Amato: Warwick: A City at the Crossroads , page 140 (Arcadia Publishing, 2001)
  6. ^ A b c d Donald A. D'Amato: Warwick: A City at the Crossroads (Arcadia Publishing, 2001)
  7. ^ Donald A. D'Amato: Warwick , p. 103 (Arcadia Publishing, 2003)
personal data
SURNAME Mills, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH before 1962