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KNIGHT, Nehemiah (1746-1808)

Democrat-Republican of Rhode Island

98th congressional district

Served in House 1803-1809

Total roll-call votes cast: 243

Biography

Representative from Rhode Island; born in ``Knightsville,'' Cranston (now a part of Providence), R.I., March 23, 1746; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; town clerk 1773-1800; elected to the general assembly of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1783 and again in 1787; sheriff of Providence County in 1787; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1803, until his death in Cranston, R.I., June 13, 1808; interment in a small cemetery on Cranston Street and Phoenix Avenue in a locality known as ``Knightsville,'' Providence, R.I.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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