Charles J. Fogarty

Charlie Fogarty
Charlie Fogarty
67th Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island
	In office; January 2, 1999 – January 2, 2007
Governor	Lincoln Almond; Don Carcieri
Preceded by	Bernard Jackvony
Succeeded by	Elizabeth Roberts
Personal details
Born	September 15, 1955; Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Providence College (BA); University of Rhode Island (MPA)

Charles Joseph Fogarty, Jr., also known as Charlie Fogarty (born September 15, 1955) was the 67th lieutenant governor of the U.S. State of Rhode Island. He is a Democrat. Fogarty served two full terms as lieutenant governor, first elected to the position in 1998 and leaving office on January 2, 2007.

His father, Charles Fogarty, Sr., was a state senator and director of the Rhode Island Small Business Administration. His uncle, John E. Fogarty, was a United States Congressman for 26 years. His brother Paul Fogarty was elected as a Rhode Island state senator in 1998 and still holds the position.

A graduate of the La Salle Academy and Providence College, Fogarty received a master's degree in public administration from the University of Rhode Island.

Fogarty was previously elected to the Glocester Town Council in 1984 and in 1990 was elected as a state senator, where he served for eight years. While a state senator, he served as both majority whip and Senate President Pro Tempore.

He was elected lieutenant governor in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. He served as lieutenant governor from 1999 to 2007.

Fogarty was a candidate for Governor of Rhode Island in 2006. He was running against incumbent Republican Governor Donald Carcieri, as Fogarty was barred from seeking re-election in 2006 due to term limits. He was defeated by a slim margin of 8,000 votes.

Rhode Island is one of 19 states that elects its governor and lieutenant governor separately rather than on a single party ticket.

Fogarty was appointed by Governor Lincoln Chafee in January 2011 as the director for the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training. In this position, Forgarty cracked down of fraudulent recipients of unemployment benefits.

In January 2015, Fogarty was appointed by Governor Gina Raimondo as director of the Rhode Island Department of Elderly Affairs.

Electoral history

2006 race for governor
- Donald Carcieri (R) (inc.), 51%
- Charles Fogarty (D), 49%
2002 race for lieutenant governor
- Charles Fogarty (D) (inc.), 54%
- John Pagliarini (R), 25%
- Robert J. Healey (I), 19%
- Gregg Stevens (Grn.), 3%
1998 race for lieutenant governor
- Charles Fogarty (D), 50%
- Bernard Jackvony (R) (inc.), 44%

gollark: Inevitably!

gollark: That probably doesn't push it up to the efficiency of just shining light on them directly, but it maybe makes it less bad.

gollark: I read somewhere that plants work more efficiently if you can tightly control the frequency of light you feed to them, and the duty cycle and stuff.

gollark: Just make your solar panels 200% efficient, silly.

gollark: Ideally, nuclear if people weren't bees.

External links

Appearances on C-SPAN

Political offices
Preceded by Bernard Jackvony	Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island 1999–2007	Succeeded by Elizabeth Roberts
Party political offices
Preceded by Myrth York	Democratic nominee for Governor of Rhode Island 2006	Succeeded by Frank Caprio

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.