Album of Theodore Francis Green’s 1941 Birthday Party

Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box

Identifier: 058-03

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection includes one photograph album holding photographs and captions documenting U.S. Senator Theodore Francis Green’s 74th birthday dinner sponsored by the Town Criers of Rhode Island at the Providence Biltmore, October 2, 1941. Guests include a number of United States Senators as well as prominent Rhode Island figures.

Dates

1941-10-02

Creator

Coyle, Farrell Daniel, 1892-1952 (Person)

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Item is open for research.

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Biographical / Historical

Theodore Francis Green (1867-1966) was born in Providence, Rhode Island on 2 October, 1867. He was a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Law School and the Universities of Berlin and Bonn, Germany. He worked as a lawyer in Rhode Island and as an instructor of law at Brown University. He served as a trustee of Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, Butler Hospital for the Insane, and Providence Public Library as well as Chair of the Providence City Plan Commission, 1917-1919.

Green came from a long line of Rhode Island legislators, stretching back to his great-great-grandfather Jonathan Arnold, who represented Rhode Island at the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783. Upon his retirement from law in 1932, he was elected the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and was then elected to the United States Senate for Rhode Island (1936-1961). He served on the Foreign Relations Committee, 1937-1947, 1949-1959 and as chairman of the committee, 1957-1959. He retired in 1961.

Farrell D. Coyle (1892-1952), creator of the photograph album, served in various Rhode Island offices including as secretary of the State Unemployment Relief Commission, WPA Administrator for Rhode Island, and as Internal Revenue Chief for Rhode Island.