Robert E. Quinn

Robert E. Quinn (1937)

Robert Emmet Quinn (born April 2, 1894 in West Warwick , Rhode Island , †  May 19, 1975 ) was an American lawyer and politician and governor of the state of Rhode Island from 1937 to 1939 .

Robert Quinn graduated from Brown University in 1915 . A degree in law , he made three years later at the Law School of Harvard University . During the First World War he worked for the US secret service in England and France .

The Democrat Quinn was a member of the Rhode Island Senate from 1923 to 1925 and from 1929 to 1933 ; In 1928 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Houston . Then in 1932 he won the election of Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island. When Governor Theodore F. Green resigned to run for a seat in the US Senate , Quinn was appointed as his successor. He held the office of governor from January 5, 1937 to January 3, 1939. During this time, meritocratic structures were created in the state apparatus; In addition, he initiated an individual income tax and campaigned for socially disadvantaged citizens not to have to pay real estate tax.

Quinn ran for re-election, but was defeated by Republican William Henry Vanderbilt . He subsequently worked again as a lawyer and was appointed to the Rhode Island Supreme Court in 1941. During World War II he joined the Army and held the rank of Commander in the US Navy Legal Department . During his four years of service, he rose to the rank of captain . After the war, Quinn again worked as a lawyer, before he was appointed presiding judge on the newly created United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in 1951 . He held this position until he retired in 1975.

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• Robert Quinn in the National Governors Association (English)
• The Political Graveyard (English)