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 2005, Brown declared his intention to run for the U. S. Senate in 2006, challenging incumbent Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, but withdrew from the race and endorsed another Democratic candidate, Sheldon Whitehouse, who went on to win the general election.

However, unlike Snowe, Collins, Specter, Jeffords and Chafee, the rest of the Republicans voted guilty on the second article.

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.

On December 20, 2010, Chafee's spokesman Michael Trainor told Providence Journal that Chafee would skip Episcopalian services on January 4, 2011, to be at home with his family.

In May 2011, Chafee resisted turning over a case to the U. S. Supreme Court due to his views on the death penalty.

Chafee also Cosponsored the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, which expanded federal jurisdiction over class-action lawsuits, and voted against a wholesale ban on gifts from employees of lobbying companies.

Chafee considered challenging Bush for renomination in the New Hampshire primary in 2004 on an antiwar platform.

On May 23, 2005, Chafee was one of 14 bipartisan senators to forge a compromise on the Democrats ' use of the judicial filibuster, forestalling the Republican leadership's implementation of the so-called " nuclear option ".

After the death of Senator John Chafee on October 24, 1999, a seat opened up on the Senate Finance Committee and Coverdell relinquished his seat on the Foreign Relations Committee to fill the seat.

In the meantime, Sen. John Chafee ( R-R. I .) had died and thus the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works had reopened.

In 1933 while attending boy scout camp at Camp Yawgoog he fell though ice on a pond and was rescued by a young John Chafee, and while he was in high school he was track star, excelling in long jump events.

However the Secretary of the Navy, John H. Chafee, intervened on Bucher's behalf and no action was taken against Commander Bucher.

Holmes had recently changed his views on the Espionage Act, especially the Sedition Act, and its relationship with free speech, based on his conversations with Zechariah Chafee and other academics.

Because it was clear that the guilt clearly rested on the North Koreans and not Bucher or the sailors on the Pueblo, Chafee stated that " Bucher and his men have suffered enough ", and that a court martial would only add insult to injury.

Frequently following a moderate path, Chafee was pro-choice on abortion and supported the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Chafee sat on the U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Health Care, but his biggest imprint was on environmental concerns.

In September 2005, Steve Laffey, the mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, announced his intention to run against Chafee in the Republican primary.

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

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.

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.

Laffey announced on September 8, 2005 that he would be running for the United States Senate, challenging incumbent Lincoln Chafee in the Republican primary.

Laffey ran as the conservative alternative to Chafee.

Chafee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee attacked Laffey for calling for the city of Cranston to accept consular ID cards from Mexico and Guatemala.

Laffey was defeated by Chafee in the primary election on September 12, 2006.

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

* 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.

On February 14, with the Rhode Island Democratic primary approaching in three weeks, Chafee officially endorsed Obama.

John Chafee graduated from a coeducational primary school, Providence's Gordon School, in 1931 and then attended Providence Country Day School.

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.

Ultimately, Laffey's Republican primary opponent in the 2006 Senate race, Lincoln Chafee won the governorship as an independent.

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 February 12, 1999, Chafee voted against both articles of impeachment against Clinton.

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.

* Johnstons Corners – A location formed by the intersection of Allen and Savage Roads, west of Chafee.

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

" Freedom of Speech in War Times ", by Z. Chafee, ordered into the Senate record by La Follette in 1919

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

However, Chafee also cast a crucial procedural vote against a Democratic attempt to kill the bill, which failed by only two votes.

Following the arrest of suspected communist radicals in 1919 and 1920 during the Palmer raids, Frankfurter, together with other prominent lawyers including Zechariah Chafee, signed an ACLU report which condemned the " utterly illegal acts committed by those charged with the highest duty of enforcing the laws " including entrapment, police brutality, prolonged incommunicado detention, and violations of due process in court.

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 ).

Harvard's Professor Zechariah Chafee paid tribute to Lowell's defense of Harvard's teachers and students by dedicating his 1920 study Free Speech in the United States to Lowell, " whose wisdom and courage in the face of uneasy fears and stormy criticism made it unmistakably plain that so long as he was president no one could breathe the air of Harvard and not be free.

Chafee became active in behind-the-scenes Rhode Island politics by helping elect a mayor of Providence in the early 1950s.

Senator Chafee was survived by his wife Virginia Coates Chafee, a daughter and three other sons in addition to Lincoln.

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.

The 2006 elections, however, saw Republican members Lincoln Chafee ( R-Rhode Island ) and Mike DeWine ( R-Ohio ) replaced by Democrats Sheldon Whitehouse and Sherrod Brown, respectively.

$ 20M of federal funding was earmarked by former Rhode Island senator Lincoln Chafee in the 2005 SAFETEA transportation bill.

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.