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English: James Fowler Simmons (
September 10,
1795 –
July 10,
1864) was a
United States Senator from
Rhode Island. Born on a farm near
Little Compton, he attended a private school in
Newport and moved to
Providence in 1812. He was employed in various manufacturing concerns in Rhode Island and
Massachusetts and engaged in the manufacture of yarn at
Simmonsville in 1822. He moved to
Johnston in 1827 and resumed the manufacture of yarns and engaged in agricultural pursuits; he was a member of the
Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1828 to 1841, and was elected as a
Whig to the U.S. Senate and served from
March 4,
1841, to
March 3,
1847. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846 and for election in 1850 to the United States Senate; while in the Senate, he was chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses) and a member of the Committee on Printing (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses).
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