James Fowler Simmons (Senator)

• BIRTH: 10 Sep 1795, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island
• DEATH: 4 Jul 1864, Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island
• BURIAL: North Burial Ground, North Main Street, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
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• TITLE: Senator

• MARRIAGE: 26 Oct 1820 or 21 Oct 1820, Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island

1. +Walter Cook Simmons (1821 - 16 Apr 1887)
2. +Samuel R. Simmons (ABT 1829 - 14 Jan 1914)

• MARRIAGE: 1835, , , Rhode Island

1. +Frederick Fowler Simmons (ABT 1837 - 14 Oct 1878)
2. +Simon Whipple Simmons (5 Jun 1839 - 13 Apr 1914)
3.  Charles Winfield Simmons (Jun 1844 - 26 Mar 1920)
4.  William Woodridge Simmons (May 1846 - 18 Oct 1909)

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|--James Fowler Simmons 
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Notes

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 28 Jul 2004. Cites The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IX

SIMMONS, James Fowler {78789}, senator, was born in Little Compton, R.I., Sept. 10, 1795; son of Davis Simmons. He spent his childhood on his father's farm, and attended Mr. Fowler's private school in Newport, removing in 1812 to Providence. He was subsequently employed in various manufacturing concerns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and in 1822 built a mill and began manufacturing in Simmonsville. He was a representative of the town of Johnston in the general assembly, 1827X40, excepting the years 1830 and 1834, serving on a committee sent to Washington in the interests of manufacturing corporations, and also as chairman of a committee sent from Providence in the great financial crisis of 1837. He was U.S. senator from Rhode Island, 1841X47, and lost the next two elections through favoring the liberation of Thomas W. Dorr (q.v), but won the election, 1857, resigning his seat in August, 1862, and his term was completed by Samuel G. Arnold of Middletown. He was married, first, Oct. 21, 1820, to Eliza, daughter of Judge Samuel Randall {78788}, of Johnston; and secondly, in 1835, to Sarah Scott, daughter of Simon Whipple. He died at Johnston, R.I., July 19, 1864.

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