Prisoners and Detainees of Rhode Island - People Convicted of Murder by Rhode Island, Prisoners Sentenced to Life Imprisonment by Rhode Island (Paperback)

Chapters: People Convicted of Murder by Rhode Island, Prisoners Sentenced to Life Imprisonment by Rhode Island, Thomas Wilson Dorr, Craig Price, John Gordon, Esteban Carpio. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thomas Wilson Dorr (November 5, 1805 December 27, 1854), American politician and reformer, known for leading the Dorr Rebellion, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Sullivan and Lydia (Allen) Dorr. His father was a prosperous manufacturer and co-owner of Bernon Mill Village. Dorr's family occupied a good social position. Thomas never married, but two of his sisters married prominent men and the son of one of them married the daughter of John Lothrop Motley. Dorr was therefore no plebeian when he led the cause of the unenfranchised classes. As a boy, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Harvard College in 1823, and then went to New York City, where he studied law under Chancellor James Kent and Vice-Chancellor William McCoun. He was admitted to the bar in 1827 and returned to Providence to practice. He began his political career as a representative in the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1834. In the half-century following the American Revolution efforts were made nearly to extend the limited franchise more widely. In Rhode Island such attempts were made at intervals from 1797 to 1834, but had invariably been obstructed by the government. In 1834 a convention met at Providence to consider the matter again, and Dorr was a member of the committee which drew up an address to the people. All efforts at reform, however, were once more blocked by the legislature. By 1841 Rhode Island was almost the only state which had not adopted universal suffrage for white males. It was also the only state which had not adopted a wr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=727269