Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island named its World Trade Center on campus after John H. Chafee for his continuing support for global trade and his association with the University.

* Terrastock 6: Pell Chafee Performance Center, Providence, Rhode Island, 21 – 23 April 2006

While at AFIT, Chafee would continue to participate in astronaut candidate testing as the pool of candidates dropped to 271 in mid-1963.

Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee critiqued the raids and attempts at deportations and the lack of legal process in his 1920 volume Freedom of Speech.

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.

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.

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 regards to the case, which would likely result in capital punishment, Chafee said: " The State of Rhode Island must seek to protect both the strong states ' rights issues at stake and the legitimacy of its longstanding public policy against the death penalty.

On education reform in general, Chafee does not believe America's schools are failing, saying " This notion of all these failing schools, if this were true, how did America get to be at the status where we are in the world if it were that bad?

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.

Chafee was in his third year as an undergraduate at Yale University when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

Author James Brady in his memoir of the Korean War, and his serving as a Marine under Chafee writes: “ Nowhere, at any time, did John Chafee serve more nobly than he did as a Marine officer commanding a rifle company in the mountains of North Korea .” and that " He was the only truly great man I've yet met in my life ..."

* John Chafee at Find A Grave

Levy's work challenged the prevailing views codified in the work of Zechariah Chafee, who had long taught at the Harvard Law School.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, John McCain of Arizona and Laura Bush appeared at fundraisers for Chafee, while Senator Bill Frist's PAC donated to Chafee.

* John Chafee, The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China ( Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995 ).

At Brown University, Chafee captained the wrestling team, and in 1975 earned a Bachelor of Arts in Classics.

** Lincoln Chafee, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island

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.

## Governor of Rhode Island ( Lincoln Chafee )

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 ).

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

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 ).

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

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

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

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

Chafee entered politics in 1985 as a delegate to the Rhode Island Constitutional Convention.

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

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

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

Bloomberg praised Chafee's " experience and integrity ", saying that Chafee would put Rhode Islanders ' interests " ahead of party interests ", and that Chafee would " produce results — because that's exactly what he did as a mayor and as senator.

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.

* Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee official state site

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.

However, in 2010 Bass won his old seat and Chafee won the Rhode Island gubernatorial election, albeit as an Independent.

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 ).

* Lincoln Chafee ( b. 1953 ): former U. S. Senator, current Rhode Island governor

* Lincoln Chafee, Governor of Rhode Island