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Frank J. Williams

Frank J. Williams, founding chairman of the Lincoln Forum, is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. He has been a leader in the Lincoln community for 30 years, first as president of both the Lincoln Group of Boston and the Abraham Lincoln Association.

He is a major collector of Lincolniana, a peripatetic lecturer before Lincoln and Civil War groups, and a scholar whose books include Abraham Lincoln: Sources and Styles of Leadership (1994) and Abraham Lincoln Contemporary (1995). Williams is also Literary Editor of the Lincoln Herald.

His next book, due in 2002, is a collection of his lectures and essays entitled Judging Mr. Lincoln.

He resides in Hope Valley, Rhode Island.

Appointed by the majority leader of the Senate.

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