Roscoe Conkling once had to flee half-naked from a shotgun-wielding politician from this state after being discovered in the bed of that man's wife, Kate Chase.
Roscoe Conkling once had to flee half-naked from a shotgun-wielding politician from this state after being discovered in the bed of that man's wife, Kate Chase. As governor, that politician was nearly killed by a cannonball after deciding to accompany this state's regiments to First Bull Run. Politicians from this state include William Sprague and a man who led the National Monetary Commission in the wake of the Panic of 1907 after cosponsoring a bill with Edward Vreeland; that "general manager of the nation" was Nelson Aldrich. As a colony, this state denied citizenship to Aaron Lopez, a wealthy Jew who financed its Touro Synagogue, the oldest in North America. For 10 points, name this site of Dorr's Rebellion, a tiny U.S. state whose capital is Providence.
Roscoe Conkling once had to flee half-naked from a shotgun-wielding politician from this state after being discovered in the bed of that man's wife, Kate Chase.
Rhode Island [or State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]