Jonathan Chace

Jonathan Chace ( born July 22, 1829 in Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts, † June 30, 1917 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician ( Republican) of the state of Rhode Iceland in both chambers of the U.S. Congress represented.

After schooling Jonathan Chace moved to Central Falls, Rhode Iceland, where he worked in the cotton industry. His first political office he took over 1876-1877 as a member of the Senate of Rhode Iceland. In 1880 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served from March 4, 1881 until his resignation on 26 January 1885.

After the death of U.S. Senator Henry B. Anthony on September 2, 1884, first William Paine Sheffield was appointed its kommissarischem successor. The by-election then decided Chace for himself, so that he could move in January 1885 in the Senate. There he remained until his resignation on 9 April 1889. During this period he was also Chairman of the Committee on the Public Service ( Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment ).

Chace retired after from politics and served in the sequence as President of the Phoenix National Bank in Providence; moreover, he was involved in numerous other shops. He was married since 1854 to Jane C. Moon, with whom he had three children. Jonathan Chace was the nephew of abolitionist Elizabeth Buffum Chace and myself at times, in the Underground Railroad running.