Thomas Wilson Dorr

Thomas Wilson Dorr has been mentioned or cited less than a dozen times throughout all the RSS channels we monitor. Especially, the channel 'Online Review of Rhode Island History' contains less than a dozen references to this person (or maybe different people with similar names) alone. As it’s displayed on the chart below, Thomas Wilson Dorr was highly popular in April, 2016.

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Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 5 to 1

[...] Rhode Island State Capitol (left side of steps) Roger Williams, Prospect Park, Providence Thomas Wilson Dorr, outside entrance to State Senate William Ellery Channing, Boston Public Garden Oliver [...]

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Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 15 to 11

[...] impact on Rhode Island, Gilbert Stuart, among others, would not be on the list, while Thomas Wilson Dorr would probably be ranked second, and Dr. John Clarke, Theodore Francis Green, Woonsocket’s [...]

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Top Twenty Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number Twenty to Sixteen

[...] impact on Rhode Island, Gilbert Stuart, among others, would not be on the list, while Thomas Wilson Dorr would probably be ranked second, and Dr. John Clarke, Theodore Francis Green and Woonsocket’ [...]

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Sidney Rider and The Business of Rhode Island History

[...] collection is devoted to the correspondence of the prominent nineteenth century reformer Thomas Wilson Dorr (1805-1854) and the rebellion he led against the Rhode Island state government in 1842. The [...]

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Brotherly Love: Thomas and Allen Dorr at Phillips Exeter Academy

[...] In 1824, several months after he graduated from Harvard College, Thomas Wilson Dorr (1805-1854), the son of a prominent Providence, Rhode Island merchant, entered into a [...]

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Zachariah Allen: Scientist, Inventor, and Visionary

[...] senator (1853–1859). Zachariah’s sister, Lydia, married Sullivan Dorr. Their son, Thomas Wilson Dorr, in response to the inequities of suffrage that denied a vote to any male who did not [...]

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Tom Dorr: Up Close and Personal

[...] over, my eyes stared in disbelief at what I immediately recognized as the handwriting of Thomas Wilson Dorr, Rhode Island’s great nineteenth-century crusader for equal rights. I had just published ( [...]

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Providence’s Merchants Influence the State to Ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1790

[...] .” In the early 1840s, during a major constitutional crisis, Providence lawyer Thomas Wilson Dorr invoked these ideas when he called for a change in the state’s archaic governing [...]

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Top Ten Turning Points in Rhode Island’s History

[...] religion.  Suddenly, Rhode Island had become the least democratic state in the Union.  Thomas Wilson Dorr, a scion of an east side Providence family, took over leadership of a reform movement and [...]

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The People’s Martyr

[...] houses of the Rhode Island legislature as well as the Governorship.  “The spirit of Thomas Wilson Dorr has finally triumphed in Rhode Island,” he announced in a late evening state-wide [...]

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