Henry F. Lippitt

{{for|the Governor of Rhode Island and Henry F. Lippitt's father|Henry Lippitt}}

{{redirect|Senator Lippitt|the New York State Senate member|John W. Lippitt}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Henry F. Lippitt

| image = Henry Frederick Lippitt, Senator from Rhode Island, File 03999a-crop.jpg

| jr/sr = United States Senator

| state = Rhode Island

| term_start = March 4, 1911

| term_end = March 3, 1917

| preceded = Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich

| succeeded = Peter Goelet Gerry

| birth_name = Henry Frederick Lippitt

| birth_date = {{birth date|1856|10|12}}

| birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island

| death_date = {{death date and age|1933|12|28|1856|10|12}}

| death_place = Providence, Rhode Island

| restingplace = Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island

| party = Republican

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Mary Louise Bowen|1881 |November 30, 1910|end=died}}
{{marriage|Lucy Hayes Herron Laughlin|1915}}

}}

| children = Louise Lippitt
Henry Lippitt
Frances Lippitt
John Bowen Lippitt
Frederick Lippitt
Mary Ann Lippitt

| education = Brown University (1878)

| occupation = Business executive

| parents = Henry Lippitt

}}

Henry Frederick Lippitt (October 12, 1856{{spaced ndash}}December 28, 1933) was a member of the prominent Lippitt family, which made its fortune in the textile business, and served as United States Senator from Rhode Island.

Biography

Born in Providence on October 12, 1856, Lippitt was the son of Henry Lippitt and Mary Ann (Balch) Lippitt.{{sfn|"In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78"|pages=235-237}} He attended Mowry & Goff's, a private school in Providence, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1878.{{sfn|"In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78"|pages=235-237}}{{cite book |last=U.S. Congress |date=1916 |title=Official Congressional Directory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ONqu8gRz1sC&pg=PA102 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Government Printing Office |page=102}} He was president of his graduating class and admitted to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.{{sfn|"In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78"|pages=235-237}} After graduation, Lippitt and joined his family's cotton textile manufacturing business.{{sfn|"In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78"|pages=235-237}}

Lippitt was director of the Slater Trust Company of Pawtucket and of several mill insurance companies.{{cite book |date=1922 |title=Directory of Directors in the State of Rhode Island |url=https://archive.org/details/directorydirect04unkngoog |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Bankers Service Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/directorydirect04unkngoog/page/n109 101] |via=Internet Archive}} He was also vice president of the People's Savings Bank of Providence and a director of the Mechanics National Bank.{{sfn|Who's Who in New England|page=674}}

He served on the Governor's staff with the rank of colonel in 1888-1889{{sfn|Who's Who in New England|page=674}} and was president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (now the National Textile Association) in 1889.{{sfn|Who's Who in New England|page=674}}

File:Henry F. Lippitt RI Senator.jpg

Lippitt was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican and served from March 4, 1911 to March 3, 1917. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-second Congress). Lippitt had been elected by the state legislature, and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916, following passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, which provided that U.S. Senators be chosen by popular vote.

After leaving the Senate, he again became actively engaged in the textile industry.{{sfn|"In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78"|pages=235-237}} He served as Chairman of the Board of the Manville-Jenckes tire fabric company of Pawtucket.{{sfn|"In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78"|pages=235-237}}

He was a member of the Squantum Association, Hope Club, Agawam Hunt Club, Rhode Island Yacht Club, New York Yacht Club, Larchmont Yacht Club, and University Club of New York.{{sfn|"Henry F. Lippitt"|page=17}} He was also a member of New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association,{{sfn|"Henry F. Lippitt"|page=17}} and in 1892 he joined the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Senator Lippitt died in Providence December 28, 1933.{{sfn|"In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78"|pages=235-237}} He was interred in the Lippitt family plot at Swan Point Cemetery.{{sfn|Where They're Buried|page=142}}

Family

In 1881 Lippitt married Mary Louise Bowen, a member of another family prominent in the Rhode Island textile manufacturing business.{{sfn|Who's Who in New England|page=674}} Their children included Louise, Henry, Frances, and John Bowen Lippitt.{{sfn|Who's Who in New England|page=674}}

Following the death of his first wife, Lippitt married Lucy Herron Laughlin in 1915, a sister of former First Lady Helen Herron Taft and widow of Thomas K. Laughlin of Pittsburgh.{{sfn|Who's Who in New England|page=674}} They had two children: Rhode Island politician and philanthropist Frederick Lippitt and aviator Mary Ann Lippitt.{{sfn|"Death Notice, Frederick Lippitt"}}

Henry F. Lippitt was the son of Rhode Island Governor Henry Lippitt{{sfn|"In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78"|pages=235-237}} and the brother of Rhode Island Governor Charles W. Lippitt.{{sfn|"In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78"|pages=235-237}} He was also a great-uncle of John H. Chafee{{sfn|"Sen. John Chafee Dies at 77"|page=B5}} and a great-great-uncle of Lincoln D. Chafee, both U.S. Senators as well as governors of Rhode Island.{{sfn|"Sen. John Chafee Dies at 77"|page=B5}}

References

Sources

=Magazines=

{{cite magazine |last=Babcock |first=Frederic L. |date=January 21, 1911 |title=Henry F. Lippitt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzs8AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR68 |magazine=Fibre and Fabric |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Jos. M. Wade Publishing Co. |ref={{sfnRef|"Henry F. Lippitt"}}}}
{{cite magazine |date=January–March 1934 |title=In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fp9MAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA236 |magazine=The Diamond of Psi Upsilon |volume=20, Issues 2-3 |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Psi Upsilon Fraternity |ref={{sfnRef|"In Memoriam: Henry Frederic Lippttt, Sigma '78"}}}}

=Books=

{{cite book |last=Marquis |first=Albert Nelson |date=1916 |title=Who's Who in New England |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5jk1AAAAIAAJ |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5jk1AAAAIAAJ/page/n676 674] |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=A. N. Marquis & Company |ref={{sfnRef|Who's Who in New England}}}}
{{cite book |last=Spencer |first=Thomas E. |date=1998 |title=Where They're Buried |url=https://archive.org/details/wheretheyreburie00spen |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/wheretheyreburie00spen/page/142 142] |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Clearfield Company |isbn=978-0-8063-4823-0 |ref={{sfnRef|Where They're Buried}}}}

=Newspapers=

{{cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Adam |date=October 26, 1999 |title=Sen. John Chafee Dies at 77 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/oct99/chafeeob26.htm |newspaper=Washington Post |location=Washington, DC |ref={{sfnRef|"Sen. John Chafee Dies at 77"}}}}
{{cite news |date=May 17, 2005 |title=Death Notice, Frederick Lippitt |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E5DF1639F934A25756C0A9639C8B63 |work=New York Times |location=New York, NY |ref={{sfnRef|"Death Notice, Frederick Lippitt"}}}}