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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Rhode IslandHOPKINS, Stephen
(1707—1785)
HOPKINS, Stephen, a Delegate from Rhode Island; born in Providence, R.I., March 7, 1707; attended the public schools; was raised on a farm in the town of Scituate, Providence County; member of the general assembly 1732-1752 and 1770-1775; served as speaker 1738-1744 and 1749; chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1739; moved to Providence in 1742 and engaged in surveying and mercantile pursuits; chief justice of the superior court 1751-1754; delegate to the Colonial Congress which met in Albany in 1754; Colonial Governor of Rhode Island in 1755, 1756, 1758-1761, 1763, 1764, and 1767; again appointed chief justice of the superior court in 1773; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1776; a signer of the Declaration of Independence; died in Providence, R.I., July 13, 1785; interment in the North Burial Ground.
Bibliography
Stitt, Edward Walmsley. Stephen Hopkins, A Signer from Rhode Island
. [N.p., 1959].
Foster, William Eaton. Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island Statesman
. Providence: S. S. Rider, 1884.
Hopkins, Stephen. The Grievances of the American Colonies Candidly Examined
. London: Reprinted for J. Almon, 1766. New York: Research Reprints, [1970].
———. The Rights of Colonies Examined
. Introduced and edited by Paul Campbell. Providence: Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, 1974.
———. A True Representation of the Plan Formed at Albany for Uniting All the British Northern Colonies, In Order To [sic] Their Common Safety and Defence [sic]: Containing Abstracts of the Authorities Given by the Several Governments to Their Commissioners, and of Several Letters From the Secretaries of State, and Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations Concerning Such an Union: Together With a Representation of the State of the English and French Colonies in North-America, and the Said Plan of Union with the Doings of the Commissioners Thereon: and Some Remarks on the Whole
. [Newport, R.I.: James Franklin, 1755].
Rhode Island. Governor (1755-1765: Hopkins). The Game Cock Readies to Strike: Abraham Whipple, Commander of the Schooner Game Cock, Receives Letters of Marque from Governor Stephen Hopkins, 1759
. With an introduction by Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle. East Greenwich: Printed for the Society by Print Shops, 1993.
Stitt, Edward Walmsley. Stephen Hopkins, A Signer from Rhode Island
. [N.p., 1959].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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