Louis W. Cappelli

Louis W. Cappelli (born April 14, 1894 in Providence , Rhode Island , †  July 29, 1966 there ) was an American politician . Between 1941 and 1944 he was Lieutenant Governor of the State of Rhode Island.

Career

Louis Cappelli attended Brown University . After completing a law degree at Yale University , he was admitted to the bar. During the First World War he was used as a soldier in the US Army in Europe between 1917 and 1919 . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1930 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Secretary of State of Rhode Island. Two years later he was elected to this office, which he held after two re-elections until 1939. In 1938 it was not reconfirmed. In 1940 he was a substitute delegate to the Democratic National Convention , where Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for the third time for president.

In 1940 Cappelli was elected lieutenant governor of Rhode Island alongside J. Howard McGrath . He held this office between 1941 and 1944. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . On April 12, 1944, he was appointed a judge at the Rhode Island Superior Court . He stayed there until his death in 1966. From 1959 he was chairman of this court. Louis Cappelli died on July 29, 1966 in his hometown of Providence.

Web links

• Louis W. Cappelli in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard
• Short biography at the Helin State Law Library (page 7 of the bibliographic appendix)
• Joseph M. Muratore: Italian-Americans in Rhode Island, Volume 2 . Arcadia Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0-7385-4940-1 , pp. 86 (English, full text in the Google book search).