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Chace, Jonathan, 1829-1917

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Personal name headingChace, Jonathan, 1829-1917
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Variant(s)Chace, Mr. (Jonathan), 1829-1917
Birth date1829-07-22
Death date1917-06-30
Place of birthFall River (Mass.)
Place of deathProvidence (R.I.)
AffiliationUnited States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. Senate
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Found inNUCMC data from Providence College Library for Nelson Aldrich microfilm collection, 1777-1930 (Jonathan Chace; correspondent of financier and philanthropist Nelson W. Aldrich, of R.I.)
Polit. graveyard WWW home page, Sept. 17, 2001 (Jonathan Chace; 1829-1917; U.S. representative and senator from Rhode Island)
In the Senate of the United States. April 12, 1886, 1886: p. 1 (Mr. Chace, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads)
Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Oct. 14, 2009 (Chace, Jonathan, a Representative and a Senator from R.I.; b. July 22, 1829; d. June 30, 1917)
Biographical direcotry of the United States Congress website, viewed September 26, 2022 (Chace, Jonathan, a Representative and a Senator from Rhode Island; born at Fall River, Mass., July 22, 1829; attended the public schools and Friends' School at Providence, R.I.; moved to Central Falls, R.I.; engaged in cotton manufacturing; member, State senate 1876-1877; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1881, to January 26, 1885, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry B. Anthony; reelected in 1888 and served from January 20, 1885, to April 9, 1889, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses); president of the Phoenix National Bank of Providence, R.I., and interested in several manufacturing enterprises; died in Providence, R.I., June 30, 1917; interment in the North Burial Ground)
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