Lincoln Chafee: Difference between revisions

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>