Chafee was appointed to fulfill his father's term after his father, John Chafee, died in October 1999.

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John Chafee (Rhode Island), Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), George Voinovich (Ohio), John Warner (Virginia), Peter Fitzgerald (Illinois) and Richard Lugar (Indiana).

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In 1993, Republican Senator John Chafee, of Rhode Island, adopted much of this plan, and his bill became the main G.

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In addition, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island voted with the Democrats, as his late father, John Chafee, whom he succeeded did last year.

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"You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration, " says John Chafee, chairman of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee.

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Before his father and predecessor, the late John Chafee, was first elected to the Senate in 1976, no Republican had managed to pull off that feat since some fellow named Jesse Metcalf in 1930.

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