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- Arthur Fenner (December 10, 1745 - October 15, 1805) served as the fourth Governor of Rhode Island from 1790 until his death in 1805. He has the seventh longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,641 days.[2] Fenner was a prominent Country Party (Anti-federalist) leader. Around 1764, Fenner joined several others as a petitioner for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (the original name for Brown University).
Fenner was born in 1745 to a prominent family in Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. His ancestor Captain Arthur Fenner (1622?1703) had been a member of the Town Council, an associate of Roger Williams, and fought in King Philip's War.[1] His parents were Arthur Fenner, Jr. (1699?1788) and Mary Olney. The Fenner family owned the wharf where the Gaspee Affair occurred in 1772.
Governor Fenner married Amey Comstock (born ca. 1749; died September 5, 1828, in her 80th yr.), daughter of Gideon Comstock of Smithfield, Rhode Island.
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