Cumberland is in the lower Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and in the John H. Chafee, Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, New England's historic National Park area.

Lincoln is in the lower Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and in the John H. Chafee, Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, New England's historic National Park area.

Currently Governor Lincoln Chafee, an independent in Rhode Island, is the only serving governor not from one of the two major parties.

Lincoln Davenport " Linc " Chafee (; born March 26, 1953 ) is an American politician who since January 2011 has been the 74th Governor of Rhode Island.

Chafee was a supporter of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid and is currently a co-chair of Obama's re-election campaign.

Chafee is pro-choice.

Chafee is " wary " of Race to the Top, " because Race to the Top includes money for charter schools ".

Chafee is a supporter of gay rights.

Conservative author and radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt argued that Chafee is one of the greatest roadblocks to creating a permanent Republican majority in the country because of his unwillingness to conform to the party's social goals.

Yet the Rockefeller Republican label is sometimes applied to such modern-day politicians as Senators Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins of Maine and Governor Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.

The NRSC generally avoids supporting Republicans in primaries against other party members, though the 2006 Rhode Island Senate primary between Lincoln Chafee and mayor of Cranston Steve Laffey is a notable exception.

As a testimonial to the late Senator Chafee, the program is now entitled the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.

The Chafee Social Science Center at the University of Rhode Island is named in his honor.

The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999, passed on November 23, 1999 after his death, is known as the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.

The CBRA enacted a set of maps depicting the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System ( CBRS ) in which federal flood insurance is unavailable for new or significantly improved structures.

When asked if he was considering it, Chafee responded, " I ’ m happy where I am for now.

Reasons ascribed for the defeat include the fact that, after running three times on a strong anti-income tax platform, Chafee now said that such a tax was imperative ( indeed his anti-tax opponent went on to champion one in 1971 ); and that he stopped campaigning after his 14-year-old daughter Tribbie was killed in a riding accident.

In December 2006, Chafee announced he was accepting a fellowship to serve as a " distinguished visiting fellow " at Brown University's Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies.

In 2008, Chafee joined the advisory board of J Street, a lobbying group that promotes diplomatic relations between Israel and its neighbors, and supports an independent Palestinian state.

Chafee was a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership and supports federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

During 2001 and 2002, when liberal Republican senators from New England like James Jeffords and Lincoln Chafee threatened to ( and in Jeffords ' case, did ) leave their party over ideological disputes, rumors abounded that Miller would become a Republican in order to return control of the Senate to that party.

On social issues, Chafee was among the most liberal members of the Senate.

Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, both former Republicans turned independents, also espouse several stances favored by liberal Republicans.

Incumbent Senator Lincoln Chafee was one of the most liberal member of the Republican Party in the Senate by 2006, and was challenged for the Republican nomination by Laffey who had criticized Chafee for his liberal voting record in the Senate.

The university had Chafee leading a student group studying U. S. foreign policy.

However, a subsequent essay by Zechariah Chafee titled “ Freedom of Speech in War Time ” argued despite context that Holmes had intended to substitute clear and present danger for the bad-tendency standard a more protective standard of free speech.

She also posthumously received the John H. Chafee Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award for 2001 presented by the Conservation Law Foundation.

In addition, the Club for Growth also makes independent expenditures to pressure certain moderate Republicans to vote more conservatively ( e. g. running ads against Senators George Voinovich of Ohio, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island after these Senators objected to certain aspects of President Bush's tax cuts ).

* On April 28, 2009, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter specifically mentioned the Club for Growth's previous activity in supporting conservative primary opponents against Republicans such as Wayne Gilchrest, Joe Schwarz, Lincoln Chafee and Heather Wilson, in his decision to run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010.

A Rhode Island native educated at Phillips Academy and Brown University, Chafee worked as a professional farrier for seven years before entering state politics in 1985.

Chafee was appointed to the United States Senate in 1999 upon the death of his father, Senator John Chafee, and was elected in the 2000 Senate election for a full six-year term.

On January 4, 2010, Chafee declared his intent to run for Governor of Rhode Island.

After his father announced he would not seek re-election in 2000, Lincoln Chafee announced he would run for the seat.

Chafee went on to defeat Laffey in the primary on September 12 by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent, an unusually close margin for an incumbent Senator.

In his victory speech, Chafee credited unaffiliated voters and disaffiliated Democrats for his victory.

In September 2008, Chafee received media attention for describing Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election, as a " cocky wacko ".

On January 4, 2010 Chafee formally declared his intention to run for Governor of Rhode Island in 2010 as an independent,

While Senator, Chafee was a member of the Republican Majority for Choice and Republicans for Choice.

Chafee opposes the death penalty, and has consistently voted against limiting federal death penalty appeals, has favored including racial statistics in death penalty appeals, and a prerequisite of DNA analysis for all federal executions.

Chafee was one of the few Republicans to vote against allowing drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and was a member of the Republicans for Environmental Protection.

Chafee voted against the Kerry-Feingold amendment calling for a binding timetable.