Lincoln Chafee - Independent Candidate for Rhode Island Governor

Lincoln Chafee - Indepedent Candidate for Rhode Island Governor

About

Welcome to the official website for Lincoln Chafee's gubernatorial campaign! Here you can learn about Linc, his track record, and his positions on a variety of issues, keep up with media about the campaign, participate on our campaign blog, join our social media community, and get involved in other ways. Fresh content and new features will be added regularly, so please visit often!

Meet Linc

57 years old
Lives in Warwick with his wife, Stephanie, and their three children, Louisa, Caleb and Thea
Born and raised in Rhode Island by his father, John Chafee, the late United States Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and Governor of Rhode Island, and his mother Virginia Coates Chafee, an early environmentalist
Graduate of Brown University, with a degree in Classics, received the Francis M. Driscoll Award for leadership, scholarship and athletics
1976 to 1983 worked as a blacksmith at harness racetracks in Kentucky, Florida, and Alberta, Canada
Entered politics in 1985 as a delegate to the Rhode Island Constitutional Convention.
1986 to 1990 worked as a planner at Electric Boat, Quonset
Served four years on the Warwick City Council
In 1992, became Warwick Mayor
Reelected in 1994, 1996 and 1998
Appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1999
Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000. Served on the Foreign Relations Committee and the Environment and Public Works Committee
Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies 2007-2009
In 2008, wrote the Washington memoir Against The Tide, How a Compliant Congress Empowered A Reckless President

Meet Stephanie

Rhode Island native
B.S. in nursing, Boston University; Master's in Business Administration, University of Connecticut; Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Rhode Island
Registered nurse, one of the first in Rhode Island to work exclusively with HIV/AIDS patients
Community health care advocate for all Rhode Islanders, particularly the less fortunate
A founding member of the Rhode Island Free Clinic, a leading healthcare provider for the uninsured in South Providence
Co-founder of Women Ending Hunger
Served on advisory boards for such institutions as Miriam Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, the Rhode Island Zoological Society and the Rhode Island Foundation

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Lincoln Chafee has forged a path of independence and he is now prepared, with your support, to bring his unquestioned integrity, proven record of working together for the common good, and ability to represent our state at the highest levels of business and government to the Governor's Office.