Amos Chafee Barstow, mayor of Providence, was named chairman of the meeting.

( Chafee was defeated in 2006 general election after an expensive primary fight with a more conservative Republican financed in large part by the club.

Warner was among ten GOP Senators who voted against the charge of perjury during Clinton's impeachment ( the others were Richard Shelby of Alabama, Ted Stevens of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Olympia Snowe of Maine, John Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Slade Gorton of Washington and Fred Thompson of Tennessee ).

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.

Chafee was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Virginia ( née Coates ) and John Chafee.

His great-uncle, Zechariah Chafee, was a Harvard law professor and a notable civil libertarian.

The Chafee family was among the earliest settlers of Hingham, Massachusetts, before moving south to Rhode Island.

Laffey was considered a formidable challenger, as he was much more conservative than Chafee.

Chafee was defeated by Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse in the general election.

In response to a question at a news conference on November 9, 2006, Chafee stated he was unsure whether he would remain in the Republican Party after serving out the remainder of his term.

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.

as the incumbent Governor Donald Carcieri ( a Republican re-elected the same day Chafee lost his Senate re-election bid ) was term-limited at the time.

In November 2011, it was reported that Maryland Governor Martin O ' Malley, the Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, had asked Chafee to join the Democratic Party.

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

In 2003, Chafee was one of the three Republican Senators to oppose the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

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

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 was the only Republican in the Senate to have voted against authorization of the use of force in Iraq.

Chafee is a supporter of gay rights.

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.

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 ".

Prior to his election as governor, Chafee served in the United States Senate as a Republican from 1999 until losing his Senate re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse.

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 is pro-choice.

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

Chafee is now involved in the J Street project, a liberal Jewish group that calls for Israel to withdraw from all occupied territories and advocates for a " two state " solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict.

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.

* 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.

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

In her 2006 re-election campaign, she was one of two Republican Senate candidates endorsed by the prominent gay rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign ( the other was Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island ).

Republican Lincoln Chafee was seeking re-election to the seat he had held since 1999, when he was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of his father John Chafee.

Chafee easily won the endorsements of all major public school teachers unions, including the Rhode Island affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers in his 2010 gubernatorial campaign.

* Chafee for Governor official campaign site

The national GOP supported Chafee in the primary campaign, believing that he was the most likely candidate to hold the seat in the general election.

Mailers sent out by the Chafee campaign called the cards " illegal immigration cards " and said accepting them poses a security risk.