Thomas Joseph Paolino
Born 12/4/1905 · Died 4/18/1987
Judicial Career
- judRI1/1/1956 – 1/1/1987
Biography
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American judge (1905–1987)
For the 2010s–2020s Rhode Island State Senate member, see Thomas Paolino .
Thomas Joseph Paolino (December 4, 1905 – April 18, 1987) was an Italian-American Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1956 to 1977. Paolino was born in Providence and graduated from Brown University and Harvard Law School .
Paolino was the leader of the Republican Party in Rhode Island ,which included being a floor manager for Dwight D. Eisenhower .
He was the Republican nominee in the 1936 Secretary of State of Rhode Island election, losing to Louis W. Cappelli , and a Republican nominee for Congress in the 1948 United States House of Representatives elections , losing to John E. Fogarty .
He went on to earn honorary degrees from Bryant University , St. Francis College , Suffolk University , and Salve Regina University .
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- ↑ Who's Who in American Law (2nd ed.). Marquis Who's Who. 1979. p. 689. ISBN 978-0-8379-3502-7 .
- ↑ "Thomas J. Paolino" . The New York Times. April 21, 1987.
- ↑ "Andrews, Roberts, Paolino Named To Three Vacancies On State Supreme Court", _Newport Daily News _ (January 18, 1956), p. 1.
- ↑ Rhode Island's Italian-American Political Pioneers .
- ↑ Who's Who in American Law (2nd ed.). Marquis Who's Who. 1979. p. 689. ISBN 978-0-8379-3502-7 .
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