Jesse H. Metcalf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJesse H. Metcalf
American politician
Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1860
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Date of Death: 09-Oct-1942
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Jesse H. Metcalf
- Jesse Houghton Metcalf (November 16, 1860 – October 9, 1942) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, Metcalf was educated in private schools there, studied textile manufacturing in Yorkshire, England, and engaged in textile manufacturing.
- Metcalf's father, Jesse Metcalf, was a textile manufacturer, and his mother, Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, was the co-founder of the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1889 Metcalf received a large bequest from his father's business partner, Henry J.
- Steere.
- Metcalf served as a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1889 to 1891 and in 1907, and was a member of the Providence Common Council from 1888 to 1892.
- He was chairman of the Metropolitan Park Commission of Rhode Island from 1909 to 1924, and a member of the penal and charitable board from 1917 to 1923.
- In addition, he was president of Rhode Island Hospital, a trustee of the Rhode Island School of Design at Providence and of Brown University, and from 1935 to 1940 a Republican National Committeeman.
- He was also a part owner of The Providence Journal.Metcalf was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on November 4, 1924, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of LeBaron B.
- Colt; on the same day he was also elected for the term commencing March 4, 1925.
- He was reelected in 1930 and served from November 5, 1924, to January 3, 1937; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936. In 1930 he was elected as a Compatriot of the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Patents (Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses) and a member of the Committee on Education and Labor (Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses). He died in Providence in 1942; interment was in Swan Point Cemetery.
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- Metcalf Lodge at Camp Yawgoog, the funds for which were donated by his wife, houses the Camp Sandy Beach dining hall and was named in his honor.
- Metcalf's sister, Eliza Greene Metcalf Radeke, served as president of RISD from 1913 to 1931.
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