William Howard Sweetland (December 19, 1856 – January 18, 1932)"Judge Sweetland Dies in Providence", ''

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'' (January 19, 1932), p. 17. was an associate justice of the

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from 1909 to 1920, and chief justice from 1920 to 1929. Born in

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,E.C. Bowler,
An Album of the Attorneys of Rhode Island
' (1904), p. 193. to William and Nancy Greene (Howard) Sweetland, he attended the public schools in Providence, and graduated from

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in 1878. He gained admission to the bar in

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, and affiliated himself with the

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. He served for times on the Rhode Island House of Representatives, on the school committee of Providence, and as a judge of the Sixth District Court. He was elected by the state legislature to a seat on the Rhode Island Supreme Court on January 19, 1909,"Sweetland Elected", ''Fall River Globe'' (January 20, 1909), p. 3. and served until his retirement on April 5, 1929. He married Florence G. Reynolds, with whom he had two children. Sweetland died from

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at his home in Providence at the age of 76.

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1856 births 1932 deaths People from Pawtucket, Rhode Island Republican Party members of the Rhode Island House of Representatives Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court {{RhodeIsland-state-judge-stub