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Stephen Hopkins (March 7 1707 – July 13 1785) was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations a Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. From a prominent Rhode Island family Hopkins was a grandson of William Hopkins who served the colony for 40 years as Deputy Assistant Speaker of the House of Deputies and Major.

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birth date
1707-03-07
birth place
Rhode Island, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Providence Rhode Island
death date
1785-07-13
death place
Rhode Island, Providence Rhode Island
occupation
List of Chief Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
office
Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
order in office
28th 30th 32nd and 34th, 3rd 5th and 17th
religion
Quakers
successor
Josias Lyndon, William Greene (colonial governor), Samuel Ward (American statesman), John Gardner (Rhode Island)

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