Henry Lippitt

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Henry Lippitt (October 9, 1818 - June 5, 1891) was Governor of Rhode Island from 1875 to 1877.

The Governor Henry Lippitt House is located in Providence. Completed in 1865, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976, and in 1981 was donated by the Lippitt family to Preserve Rhode Island.

Lippitt was the brother of Charles Warren Lippitt, another Rhode Island Governor, the father of Henry F. Lippitt, a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, the great-grandfather of John Chafee, another Rhode Island Governor, U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Navy, and the great-great-grandfather of Lincoln Chafee, a U.S. Senator.

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