John Chafee, the state’s legendary Republican senator who served from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, would have turned 100 on Oct. 22. When I think back to him in this divided time ...

Follow me on Twitter @DanMcGowan or send tips to [email protected]. In former US Senator John Chafee’s 1999 obituary, the New York Times called him “the last of the Rockefeller Republicans ...

So when John Chafee died and his son Lincoln (a Republican like his dad) was appointed to serve out the remainder of his Senate term, people were pretty happy with the arrangement, and Lincoln ...

morph into Lincoln Chafee (D)? The 43rd and 44th presidents were major factors. So was politics. The son of moderate Republican John Chafee, who served as senator, governor and Navy secretary ...

At the same time Democrats were talking to Jeffords, they were also courting Chafee and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), both of whom rebuffed their offers and stayed in the GOP fold. But the ...

At a gathering of Korean War veterans, a member of Capt. John Chafee's company recounted a day when it had to move across snow-covered ground believed to be a minefield. Chafee took point and led ...

Chafee's father, the late Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I., served four terms in the Senate before announcing his retirement in 1999. Chafee's son announced his intention to run for the seat but was ...