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John Spencer (speaker)
John Spencer JP (20 April 1666 – 1743) was a colonial Rhode Island politician. Early life Spencer was born on 20 April 1666 in Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was the eldest son of nine children born to Dr. John Spencer (1638–1684), who was made freeman of Newport in 1668, and Susannah ( Griffin) Spencer (1644–1719). His paternal grandfather, Michael Spencer, was born in Stotfold, Bedford, England before emigrating to the Massachusetts Bay Colony aboard the ship ''Mary and John'' in 1634, first settling at Cambridge before moving to Lynn. After his grandfather's death, his grandmother Isabel remarried to Thomas Robbins before her death in Salem in 1674. His maternal grandparents were Robert and Hannah Griffin. Career Spencer was a prominent landowner and Justice of the Peace and a cordwainer by trade. He served as Deputy (precursor to Representative) to the General Assembly between 1699 and 1729, as well as Speaker of the House of Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speaker Of The House Of Delegates Of Rhode Island
The speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives is the highest official in the Rhode Island House of Representatives. History From 1663 until 1842, Rhode Island's governing State constitution (United States), state constitution was its original colonial charter granted by Charles II of England, King Charles II of England, a political anomaly considering that while most states during the American Revolutionary War, War of Independence and afterwards wrote scores of new constitutions with their newly found independence in mind, Rhode Island instead continued with a document stamped by an English king. By the 1840s, Rhode Island was the only state whose official legal document was passed by a foreign monarch and the document essentially restricted voting rights to a very small population of elite, rural, landowning native-born white males. In September 1842, a Constitutional Convention was held at the Old Colony House, Colony House in Newport, Rhode Island, Newport to confr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |