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  Knight, Nehemiah R.
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NameNehemiah R. Knight
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, Rhode Island , United States
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Born December 31, 1780
DiedApril 18, 1854 (73 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Mar 04, 2024 01:36am
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InfoNehemiah Rice Knight (December 31, 1780 – April 18, 1854) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Cranston, he attended the common schools. In 1802 he was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives; he moved to Providence and was clerk of the Court of Common Pleas from 1805 to 1811 and clerk of the circuit court from 1812 to 1817. He was also collector of customs for the same period. He was Governor of Rhode Island from 1817 to 1821 and president of the Roger Williams Bank from 1817 to 1854.

Knight was elected in 1821 as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Burrill, Jr.; he was reelected in 1823 as a Crawford Republican, in 1829 as an Anti-Jacksonian, and again in 1835 as a Whig, and served from January 9, 1821, to March 3, 1841. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Twenty-second, Twenty-third and Twenty-sixth Congresses) and a member of the Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-fourth Congress). Knight retired from public life and was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1843. He died in Providence in 1854; interment was in Grace Church Cemetery.

Nehemiah Rice Knight's father, Nehemiah Knight, had been a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.


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  04/01/1835 RI Governor Lost 49.28% (-1.38%)
  11/03/1834 RI US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  04/02/1834 RI Governor Lost 48.88% (-2.17%)
  11/03/1828 RI US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/03/1822 RI US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  01/08/1821 RI US Senate - Appointment Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  04/05/1820 RI Governor Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  04/07/1819 RI Governor Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  04/01/1818 RI Governor Won 53.60% (+7.30%)
  04/02/1817 RI Governor Won 50.42% (+0.91%)
  04/03/1816 RI Governor Lost 47.51% (-4.84%)
  08/30/1814 RI At-Large Lost 22.12% (-6.13%)
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US Vice President - Senate Runoff - Feb 08, 1837 W Francis Granger