Robert Livingston Beeckman (jan 1, 1909 – dec 31, 1911)
Description:
Newport, Rhode IslandDates of Service: January 1909-1911
Date of Birth: April 15, 1866
Birth Place: New York City, New York
Occupation: Messenger, Newport; Seated to the New York Stock Exchange (Age 21); Lapsley Beeckman & Co of New York City (1906); Director, Industrial Trust Company of Newport and the International Silver Company
Other Offices: State Senator (1912-1914); Governor (1915-1920)
Other Information: While governor, he proposed reform of a number of state institutions—state prisons and hospitals among them. He also established a state Parole Board.
During World War I, he helped to mobilize state resources and visited Rhode Island troops on the battlefield in France.
Picture (2) Citation: Women Witnessing Governor Beeckman Signing Rhode Island’s Women’s Suffrage Act, April 18, 1917. Group in back of Gov. Beeckman, from left to right: Unidentified woman (most likely Ethel W. Parks), Helen R. Parks, Mabel E. Orgelman, Senator Henry B. Kane, Agnes M. Jenks, Elizabeth Upham Yates, Anna G. Smith, Nettie E. Bauer, Representative Richard W. Jennings, and Mildred Glines. Rhode Island Historical Society Collections RhiX36143.
Video Citation: Governors of New England meet in Governor Coolidge's office in Boston to discuss fuel. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o292822. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
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Date:
jan 1, 1909
dec 31, 1911
~ 2 years and 11 months
