RESUME
OF FRANK J. WILLIAMS
BIRTH
DATE: August 24, 1940
RESIDENCE:
300 Switch Road, Hope Valley, RI 02832 (401) 364-3642
MARRIAGE:
Married to Virginia Elizabeth, 34 Years.
MILITARY
SERVICE:
Active
Duty: October 1962 to March 1967; Captain, U.S. Army.
U.S.
Awards and Decorations: Bronze Star, 3 Air Medals, Army Commendation Medal, 2
Vietnamese Campaign Medals, Combat Infantrymen's Badge, Aerial Observer Wings.
Republic of Vietnam Awards: Gallantry Cross with Silver Star for Valor, Staff
Service Medal - First Class. Military Duties: Company Commander, Tank Platoon
Leader, Assistant Battalion Operations Officer, Battalion Adjutant, Advisor to
Vietnamese Regional and Popular Forces, Operations Advisor to Vietnamese 23rd
Infantry Division.
EDUCATION:
Boston
University; College of Liberal Arts, B.A. in June, 1962; Major Government and
History. Boston University School of Law; J.D. in June, 1970. Bryant College;
Master's Degree in Taxation in June, 1986. Lincoln College, Lincoln, Illinois;
Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, May 9, 1987.
PROFESSION:
Associate
Justice, Rhode Island Superior Court, 250 Benefit Street, Providence, Rhode
Island 02903. TEACHING: Visiting Lecturer on Business and Legal Practice, Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975 to 198 1. Adjunct
Professor, Roger Williams University School of Law, 1996 to present.
BIOGRAPHICAL
LISTINGS:
Who's
Who in America Who's Who in American Law; Who's Who in the East; Community
Leaders of the World; Men of Achievement; The Directory of Distinguished
Americans; The American Bench; Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America; Who's
Who in Rhode Island; Who's Who in the World; Who's Who in Finance &
Industry.
ELECTED:
Delegate
to the 1986 Rhode Island Constitutional Convention; Town Moderator, Town of
Richmond, Rhode Island 1989, 1992; Solicitor, Town of Hopkinton, Rhode Island,
December 1978 to 1982; December 1984 to May 1987; Solicitor, Town of West
Greenwich, Rhode Island, December, 1984 to 1992; Assistant Solicitor, Town of
West Greenwich, 1992 to 1995; Solicitor, Town of Barrington, Rhode Island, 1993
to 1995; Solicitor, Town of Bristol, Rhode Island, 1995; Solicitor, Town of
South Kingstown, Rhode Island 1995; Solicitor, Town of Coventry, November 1976
to November 1978; Solicitor Town of Coventry and its School Committee, November
1972 to 1974; Assistant Solicitor in Charge of Prosecutions, Town of Little
Compton, 1971 to 1972.
GUBERNATORIAL
APPOINTMENT:
Chair,
Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation, 1995.
U.S. SENATE APPOINTMENT:
Member, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Commission, August 24, 2000
JUDICIARY:
Judge of Probate, Town of West Greenwich,
December 1984 to 1986,
1992 to
1995; Deputy Probate Judge, 1986 to 1992; Judge of Probate,
Town of
Hopkinton, December 1978 to 1982, December 1984 to 1990;
Member,
Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association;
appointed
by the Rhode Island Supreme Court to the Board of Bar
Examiners,
1987 to 1995; Chair, Board of Bar Examiners, 1995.
Associate
Justice, Superior Court of the State of Rhode Island, December
15,
1995 to present.
CIVIC
ORGANIZATIONS:
Chair,
The Lincoln Forum, 1995 to present.
President,
The Ulysses S. Grant Association, Carbondale, Illinois, 1990 to
present.
President,
Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois, 1976 to
1995.
President,
Lincoln Group of Boston, 1976 to 1988.
Member
of the Advisory Board, The Lincoln Legals: A Documentary
History
of the Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, 1836 to 1861,
Springfield,
Illinois, 1987 to 1995.
Member
of the Bibliography Committee, Lincoln Lore, Louis A. Warren
Lincoln
Library and Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 198 8 to 199 1.
Trustee,
The John E. Fogarty Foundation for Persons with Mental
Retardation,
1977 to present.
Member
of the Board of Directors, Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of
America,
1969 to 1980; 1999 -
Member
of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People
(N.A.A.C.P.), Providence Chapter, 2000-
Member
of the Board of Directors, South County Hospital, 1995 –
Chairman,
Young Lawyers Advisory/Clerkship Committee of the Rhode Island Bar Association,
1976 to 1987.
Chairman,
Lincoln Advisory Committee, John Hay Library of Special Collections, Brown
University, 1983 to present.
Member,
Advisory Committee of the Barondess Lincoln Award of the Civil War Round Table
of New York, 1988 to present.
Chair,
Events Committee, Friends of the Library, Brown University, 1984 to 1996.
Member of the Board of Directors, 1984 to present.
Member,
The Grolier Club, 1991 to 1994.
Military
Order of Foreign Wars of the United States, 1999
Rhode
Island Selection Committee - Rhodes Scholarship.
MEMBERSHIP
IN ORGANIZATIONS RELATED TO THE STUDY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois
The
Lincoln Group of Boston
Lincoln
Fellowship of Wisconsin
Indiana
Historical Society
Kentucky
Historical Society
Illinois
State Historical Society
Lincoln
Club of Delaware
Lincoln
Club of Topeka
Lincoln
Group of the District of Columbia
Lincoln
Group of Florida
Lincoln
Group of Illinois
Lincoln
Group of New York
Lincoln
Memorial Association, Redlands, California
Lincoln
Society, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Civil
War Round Table, Chicago, Illinois
Surratt
Society, Clinton, Maryland
United
States Supreme Court Historical Society
AWARDS:
Chancellor's
Medal for Distinguished Service, Louisiana State University,
Shreveport,
December, 1996.
Elected
to the American Antiquarian Society, 1995.
1985
Award of Merit from the Rhode Island Bar Association.
Certificate
of Merit from the Town of Coventry High School Building
Committee.
Certificate
of Service as Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association.
Elected
Fellow of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation.
Inducted
into the City of Cranston Hall of Fame, 1990.
William
Williams Award, Brown University Library, 1999.
Patriotic
Speaker, 214th Annual Bristol July 4th Celebration, 1999.
1999
Pontecorvo Society Award of Achievement.
Judicial
Fellow of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 2000.
Elected
Lifetime Member, Lincoln Group of New York
Elected to Pi Sigma Alpha - The National Political Honor Society
HOBBIES
AND INTERESTS:
Rescue Dobermans from Doberman Rescue and animal shelters
Cooking
Activities:
- Award
winning Pastry Chef
- Teacher
of cooking techniques for Justinian Law Society at the Florentine Grille
- Guest
Chef, Davio's for Whitmarsh House - Guest Chef, University Club
- Guest
Chef, Chef Frank Tarranova's "Cooking with Class" WJAR, Channel 10
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
1.
Abraham Lincoln: Sources and Style of Leadership co-edited with William D.
Pederson
and Vincent J. Marsala (Greenwood Press 1995).
2.
Abraham Lincoln Contemporary: An American Legacy co-edited with William
D.
Pederson, (Savas Woodbury Pub. 1995).
3.
"Introduction," The Jewel of Liberty: Abe Lincoln's Re-Election and
the End of Slavery by David E. Long (Stackpole 1995).
4.
Lincoln's Deathbed in Art and Memory, The "Rubber Room" Phenomenon
with
Harold
Holzer (Thomas Publications 1998).
5. Dual
Greatness in the White House: Comparative Views of Franklin Roosevelt
and
Abraham Lincoln -edited with William D. Pederson (Savas Publishing Co.
2001).
6.
"Afterword," Lincoln On Democracy edited by Mario M. Cuomo, Harold
Holzer,
A.
Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book (HarperCollins Publishers).
7.
George Washington in and as Culture: Bicentenary Explorations edited by Frank
J.
Williams with Kevin L. Cope & William D. Pederson (AMS Press 2000).
8.
George Washington and The Origins of the American President, co-edited with
William
D. Pederson and Mark J. Rozell (Praeger 2000).
9. 68th
Watchorn Dinner Lecture, "A View From the Field: The Soldiers' Vote for
Abraham
Lincoln's Re-Election" The Lincoln Shrine, Redlands, California, February
12, 2000.
10.
"Edward Bates and Abraham Lincoln: The Attorney General and the Attorney
President"
R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture, The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, September 23,
2000.
11.
Washington and Lincoln with William D. Pederson (Peter Lang 2001).
Editor
1.
"Lincolniana," Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 1982-1995
2. "Lincolniana," Lincoln Lore 1996-present
3. Literary Editor, Lincoln Herald 1998-present
4. "Lincolniana," Antiques Magazine 1977-80 1992-85
Editorials
1.
"Abraham Lincoln: A Guest Editorial," The Chariho Times February 8,
1978.
2.
"Lincoln: A Leader to Emulate," Viewpoint The Chariho Times February
14,
1980.
3.
"Success and Morality Rarely Compatible," Viewpoint The Chariho Times
February
11, 1981.
4.
"Lincoln and the Politics of Ethics," Lincoln Herald Summer 1983.
Articles
1.
"Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties and the Coming Letter," in Roger
Williams
University
Law Review Spring 2000.
2.
"The Lincoln Era Collection of the Lincoln Memorial University: An Oasis
for
Researchers,"
Lincoln Herald, Summer 1973.
3.
"Lincolniana" annual survey article, Hobbies, The Magazine for
Collectors
1977-1980,
1982-1985; Antiques & Collecting Hobbies 1986-1989.
4. U.S.
98th Congress, 1st Session, 1983-1984, Joint Resolution to establish the
Abraham
Lincoln One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Commission
(Washington
1983), introduced by Senator John H. Chafee at the urging of Frank
J.
Williams.
5.
"The Crisis in Lincoln Collecting" (with Mark E. Neely, Jr.), Books
at Brown
Volumes
XXXI and XXXII, 1984-1985.
6.
"Lincolniana" annual survey article, Papers of the Abraham Lincoln
Association
1984-1986;
Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 1987-present.
7.
"Lincoln Collecting - What's Left to Collect?" (with Mark E. Neely,
Jr.),
Manuscripts
Winter 1986.
8.
"One of Many: Our Group and Other Lincoln Groups," The Lincoln Group
o
Boston,
Reflections of Our Past, Present and Future edited by Sylvia B. Larson,
The
Clement C. Maxwell Library, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater,
Massachusetts,
1988.
9.
"John Hay and Abraham Lincoln: A Retrospective," Books at Brown
Volume
XXXV
and XXXVI, 1988-1989.
10.
"Afterword," Lincoln on Democracy edited by Mario M. Cuomo and Harold
Holzer
(HarperCollins), 1990.
11.
"Lincoln and His Contemporaries: The World's Statesman Compared,"
Papers
from
the Sixth Annual Lincoln Colloguium, October 26, 199 1.
12.
"Lincoln Writes to a Fellow Boarder," Lincoln Newsletter Lincoln
College,
Lincoln,
Illinois, Winter 1991.
13.
"Lincoln and His Contemporaries: The World's Statesman Compared,"
National
Park
Service, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, 1993.
14.
"A Candidate Speaks in Rhode Island: Abraham Lincoln Visits Providence and
Woonsocket,
1860," Rhode Island History Volume 5 1, November 1993.
15.
"'Abraham Lincoln and Leadership' A Summer Institute for Secondary
Teachers,"
with
William D. Pederson, The Lincoln Newsletter Winter 1993.
16.
"The Crisis in Lincoln Collecting: From Mayhem and Beyond," Eighth
Annual
Lincoln
Colloquium, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois.
17.
"Robert Todd Lincoln and John Hay, Fellow Travelers," Lincoln Herald
Spring,
1994.
18.
"A Million Marathons," News from Marathon House Spring/Summer 1994.
19.
"Lincoln and Leadership: An International Perspective" in Abraham
Lincoln:
Sources
and Style of Leadership, with William D. Pederson and Vincent J.
Marsala
(Greenwood Press 1994).
20.
"Lincoln and Leadership: An International Perspective" in Abraham
Lincoln:
Sources
and Style of Leadership, with William D. Pederson and Vincent J.
Marsala
(Greenwood Press 1994).
21.
"Individuality and Universality" in The Universal Lincoln, edited by
Yu-Tang D. Lew (the Lincoln Society, Taipei, Formosa 1995).
22.
"Abraham Lincoln - Our Ever Present Contemporary" in We Cannot Escape
History: Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth, edited by James M. McPherson
(University of Illinois Press 1995).
23.
"Profile of Abraham Lincoln" in Presidents in Profile, Southern Rhode
Island Newspapers (November, 1996).
24.
"Natural Law Vanquishes Oppression in Amistad Case in Rhode Island Bar
Journal (January, 1998).
25.
"Lincoln's Rubber Room" in American History, with Harold Holzer
(August 1998).
26.
"We Had Only To Stretch Forth Our Hands," North & South, August
1999.
27.
"Abraham Lincoln: Commander-in-Chief or Attorney-in-Chief in Abraham
Lincoln and His Contemporaries, edited by Charles M. Hubbard (Mercer University
Press, 1999).
28.
"Abraham Lincoln, Puppet Master: The President and General George Gordon
Meade, an Evolving Commander-in-Chief in The Lincoln Forum; Abraham Lincoln,
Gettysburg, and the Civil War, edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and
William D. Pederson (Savas Publishing Co. 1999).
29.
"The Influence on Abraham Lincoln of the Women in His Life" in
"We Cannot Escape History: The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Home
National Historic Site, Twelfth Annual Colloquium (1999).
30.
"Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill" in Dual
Greatness in the White House: Comparative Views of Franklin Roosevelt and
Abraham Lincoln, co-edited with William D. Pederson (Savas Publishing Co.
2000). 31. "America's Transportation President," with William D.
Pederson, The LincoInator, January-June 2000.
Works
In Progress
1. Long
Abraham, A Little Longer: Lincoln in Cartoon and Caricature,
1860-present,
with William E. Gienapp and Harold Holzer.
2.
Abraham Lincoln: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press).
3. The
Emancipation Proclamation, with Edna Greene Medford and Harold Holzer. 4. A
Comparison in Leadership: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and
Winston
Churchill - The Warrior, Communitarian, and Echo (The Lincoln Fellowship of
Wisconsin, Historical Bulletin No. 56).
5.
Judging Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press). 6. George Washington and
Abraham Lincoln, co-edited with William D. Pederson
(Savas
Publishing Co.).
PUBLIC
APPEARANCES
Conferences
1.
Co-director and participant - Abraham Lincoln,
Louisiana
State University in Shreveport Sept. 7-18, 1992
2.
Co-director and participant -
First
Couples in the White House September 1995
3.
Co-director and participant - FDR Conference
Louisiana
State University in Shreveport Sept. 14-16, 1995
4.
Chair and participant - Lincoln in War and Peace,
Second
Annual Symposium of Lincoln Forum Nov. 16-19, 1997
5.
Co-director and participant -
The
Life, Times and Legacy of George Washington,
Louisiana
State University in Shreveport Sept. 17-19, 1998
6.
Co-chair and presenter -
Lincoln
at Gettysburg: Man, Myth and Monument,
Third
Annual Symposium of the Lincoln Forum Nov. 16-19, 1998
7.
Lecturer -
Ultimate
Trial Advocacy Course: Art of Persuasion
Advanced
Trial Lawyers Association
National
College of Advocacy Harvard Law School March 28, 1999
8.
Co-director and participant -
America
at the Third Millennium: Where We Have Been,
Where
We Are Going and What Does It Mean Oct. 5-8, 2000
Presentations
and Papers within last 5 years (prior presentations and papers available upon
request)
1.
"Abraham Lincoln -- A Standard to Follow"
2.
Senior Awards Dinner, Cranston High
3.
Ulysses S. Grant Association Board Meeting April 1996
4.
North Kingstown Free Library April 1996
5.
Honors Night: Chariho Middle School Feb.10,1997
6.
Narragansett Bay Chapter: Retired Officers' Association Feb.14,1997
7.
Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C. March 9, 1997
8.
Narragansett Collectors' Club March 16, 1997
9.
Washington Bar Association March 27, 1997
10.
Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia April 1997
11.
Lincoln symposium: The Abraham Lincoln Museum April 1997
12.
Westerly Historical Society May 27,1997
13.
Lincoln-Douglas Society of Freeport Aug.27,1997
14.
Hopkinton Historical Association Feb.15,1998
15.
Pembroke Club of Providence March 21, 1998
16.
Netopian Club of Providence March 11, 1998
17. 130th
Memorial Day Observance in N. Prov. May 24, 1998
18.
Bristol Rotary Oct. 7, 1998
19.
Friends of the Cumberland Public Library Oct. 21, 1998
20.
Jamestown Rotary Club Nov. 12,1998
21.
Gettysburg Rotary Club Nov. 16, 1998
22.
Newport Bar Association Nov. 1998; March 99
23.
Turnaround Management Club Dec. 1998
24.
South County Hop. Auxiliary Feb. 1999
25.
Wichita Falls, TX, Red River CVVRT Feb. 9, 1999
26.
Dallas CWRT Feb.10,1999
27.
Waco CWRT Feb.11,1999
28.
Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis Association Feb.24,1999
29.
Norwich Tourism Feb.27,1999
30. The
Robert E. Lee CWRT of Central N.J. March 8, 1999
31.
Town of Charlestown, RI, Memorial Day Speaker May 30, 1999
32. The
union Preserved New York and the Civil War,
N.Y.
State Archives June 11-12, 1999
33.
Patriotic Day Speaker, Town of Bristol 4th of July Parade July 3, 1999
34.
Lincoln Seminar, Springfield, IL July 9-11, 1999
35.
Ford's Theatre, Washington August 2, 1999
36.
International Churchill Society Gettysburg, PA Sept. 24-25, 1999
37. The
68th Annual Watchorn Lincoln Dinner,
The
Lincoln Memorial Shrine, Redlands, CA February 12, 1999
38.
Bicentennial of the Death of George Washington,
Reception
Room, State House, Providence, RI February 22, 1999
39. The
Lincoln Club of Tepeka and Washburn University,
Topeka,
KS , The Fourteenth Harman Memorial
Lincoln
Lecture February 24, 1999
40.
Conservator Society, Providence Public Library March 5, 2000
41.
Austin (TX) Civil War Round Table March 14,2000
42. New
Orleans (LA) Civil War Round Table March 15, 2000
43.
Houston (TX) Civil War Round Table March 16, 2000
44.
Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America
Recognition
Dinner March 9, 2000
45. The
Art of Trial Dynamics: The Art of Trial Advocacy
Rhode
Island Bar Association March 23, 2000
46. Law
Review and Moot Court Banquet, Roger Williams
University
School of Law April 7, 2000
47.
Lincoln Group of Boston, "Lincoln and Meade After
Gettysburg."
April 15,2000
48.
Ulysses S. Grant Association Board Meeting April 27-30, 2000
49.
Justinian Law Society May 1, 2000
50.
Coventry High School, Law Day Speaker May 1, 2000
51.
North Atlantic Region of the State and Provincial
Division
of the International Association of
Chiefs
of Police May 2, 2000
52.
Friends of the Library, Roger Williams University
"Reading
Habits of Lincoln." May 5, 2000
53.
Stonington Historical Society May 13, 2000
54.
Town of Charlestown, RI, Memorial Day Speaker May 28, 2000
55.
Commencement Speaker, Tiverton High School June 10, 2000
56. South
Central Connecticut Civil War Round Table June 12, 2000
57.
Civil War Institute, Moderator June 28, 2000
58.
Touro Synagogue August 20, 2000
