American jurist, born in Tiverton, RI, on the 20th of September 1790. He was a member of the Rhode Island legislature from 1814 to 1819 and from 1827 to 1839; a member of Congress from 1821 to 1825; and in 1835 became chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island, which office he held until his death on the 26th of July 1847. He published Roger Williams in Exile (1832), and several volumes of poetry.
