Lincoln Davenport Chafee (pronounced /ˈtʃeɪ fiː/ CHAY-fee; born March 26, 1953) is a former United States Senator from Rhode Island. Running as a Republican, he lost his re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. In the summer of 2007, he left the Republican Party and became an independent. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
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Lincoln Davenport Chafee (pronounced /ˈtʃeɪ fiː/ CHAY-fee; born March 26, 1953) is a former United States Senator from Rhode Island. Running as a Republican, he lost his re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. In the summer of 2007, he left the Republican Party and became an independent. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
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. He was a delegate to the Rhode Island State Constitutional Convention, a member of the Warwick, Rhode Island city council, and later the mayor of Warwick. Chafee was appointed to the United States Senate in 1999 upon the death of his father, Senator John Chafee, and in 2000 was elected to a full six-year term.
Chafee was a supporter of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid.
On April 6, 2009, Chafee announced...
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