James Fenner
{{Short description|American politician (1771–1846)}}
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|name = James Fenner
|image = GovJamesFenner.jpg
|caption = Official Rhode Island State House portrait by James Sullivan Lincoln
|order1 = 7th, 11th, and 17th
|office1 = Governor of Rhode Island
|term_start1 = May 6, 1807
|term_end1 = May 1, 1811
|lieutenant1 = Constant Taber
Simeon Martin
Isaac Wilbour
|predecessor1 = Isaac Wilbour
|successor1 = William Jones
|term_start2 = May 5, 1824
|term_end2 = May 4, 1831
|lieutenant2 = Charles Collins
|predecessor2 = William C. Gibbs
|successor2 = Lemuel H. Arnold
|term_start3 = May 2, 1843
|term_end3 = May 6, 1845
|lieutenant3 = Byron Diman
|predecessor3 = Samuel Ward King
|successor3 = Charles Jackson
|jr/sr4 = United States Senator
|state4 = Rhode Island
|term_start4 = March 4, 1805
|term_end4 = September 1807
|predecessor4 = Christopher Ellery
|successor4 = Elisha Mathewson
|office5 = 33rd Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
|term_start5 = 1819
|term_end5 = 1819
|predecessor5 = Tristam Burges
|successor5 = Isaac Wilbour
|birth_date = {{birth date|1771|1|22}}
|birth_place = Providence, Colony of Rhode Island, British America (now Rhode Island, U.S.)
|death_date = {{death date and age|1846|4|17|1771|1|22}}
|death_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
|party = Democratic-Republican
|otherparty = Law and Order
}}
James Fenner (January 22, 1771{{spaced ndash}}April 17, 1846) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator as well as the 7th, 11th and 17th Governor of Rhode Island (on three occasions). He was the son of Arthur Fenner, the fourth governor of Rhode Island.
Biography
File:Coat of Arms of Arthur Fenner.svg
Fenner was born in Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He graduated from Brown University in 1789, and was married to Sarah Whipple Jenckes (his first cousin, once removed) on November 17, 1792. He served as United States senator from 1805 to 1807, then gave up his senatorship to become Governor of Rhode Island, two years after his father died in office. Fenner served as governor from 1807 to 1811, from 1824 to 1831, and from 1843 to 1845. Fenner was elected to his first two terms as a Democratic-Republican and as his third term as a member of the Law and Order Party of Rhode Island. In his final term, Fenner became the first governor to serve under the Rhode Island Constitution, adopted in 1842.
Fenner died in his mansion "What Cheer" in 1846, and was interred in the North Burial Ground in Providence.
Fenner had four children with his wife, Sarah Jenckes:
- Almira Theodosia (January 17, 1793 – October 10, 1872)
- Sarah
- Freelove (ca. 1799 – August 2, 1817)
- Arthur (ca. 1810 – March 8, 1832)
External links
{{Portal|United States|New England|Rhode Island|Biography}}
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150719093053/http://fennerfamilytree.wikispaces.com/JamesFenner1771-1846 Gov. James Fenner in the Fenner Genealogy]
- {{Find a Grave|6947385}}
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Category:Governors of Rhode Island
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Politicians from Providence, Rhode Island
Category:United States senators from Rhode Island
Category:Rhode Island Democratic-Republicans
Category:Law and Order Party of Rhode Island state governors of the United States
Category:Democratic-Republican Party United States senators
Category:Burials at North Burying Ground (Providence)
Category:Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States