William Paine Sheffield, Sr., U.S. Representative and Senator from Rhode Island
William Shakespeare | William Laud | Sheffield | William Blake | William | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | William Hogarth | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | William Penn | William Jennings Bryan | William Gibson | William Wilberforce | Sheffield United F.C. | William James | William Makepeace Thackeray | Fort William | William Hanna | William Hague | William III |
Born in New Shoreham (on Block Island), he completed preparatory studies, attended Kingston Academy, and graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1843; he was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in Newport.
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In 1892 Sheffield was elected as an honorary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.