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==Personal== | ==Personal== | ||
Lincoln | Lincoln Chafee was born on March 26, 1953 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Virginia and John Chafee. He attended public schools in Warwick, Rhode Island, Providence Country Day School, and graduated from Phillips Academy in 1971. Chafee graduated from Brown University in 1975 gaining a bachelor of arts in classics. In January 1990 he married Stephanie Birney Danforth and has since had three children with her. | ||
==Politics== | |||
In 1986 Chafee was elected to Warwick's city council and reelected in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|title=Children of famous win vote support|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36004037/the_desert_sun/|access-date=1986-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915225945/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36004037/the_desert_sun/|archive-date=2019-09-15|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref> In 1990 Chafee attempted to become mayor of Warwick, but was defeated by Charles Donovan. In 1992 Chafee defeated Donovan and was reelected three more times until the death of his father in 1999 when Governor Lincoln Almond appointed him to serve out the rest of his father's term.<ref>{{cite web|title=Warwick, RI - Mayor 1998|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=457598|access-date=2008-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314002251/https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=457598|archive-date=2016-03-14|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chafee's son named to fill father's Senate seat|url=https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/02/chafee.appointed/index.html|access-date=1999-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006225252/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/02/chafee.appointed/index.html|archive-date=2007-10-06|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||