Henry F. Lippitt Senator
Henry Frederick Lippitt (October 12, 1856 – December 28, 1933) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, he attended private schools, graduated from Brown University in 1878, and entered the cotton textile manufacturing business.Lippitt was director of the Slater Trust Company of Pawtucket and of several mill insurance companies. He was also vice president of the People's Savings Bank of Providence.He served on the Governor's staff with the rank of colonel in 1888-1889 and was president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (now the National Textile Association) in the latter year.Lippitt was elected as a United States senator by the Rhode Island Senate as a Republican and served from March 4, 1911 to March 4, 1917. He was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 - the first year in which United States senators were elected by popular vote. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-second Congress).After leaving the Senate, he again became actively engaged in the textile industry. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Manville-Jenckes tire fabric company of Pawtucket.He was a member of the Squantum Association and the Hope Club. In 1892 he joined the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.He died in Providence in 1933. He was interred in the Swan Point Cemetery.
