Henry Frederick Lippitt (October 12, 1856 – December 28, 1933) was a member of the prominent Lippitt family, which made its fortune in the textile business, and served as United States Senator from Rhode Island.
Lippitt was director of the Slater Trust Company of Pawtucket and of several mill insurance companies.[3] He was also vice president of the People's Savings Bank of Providence and a director of the Mechanics National Bank.[4]
He served on the Governor's staff with the rank of colonel in 1888-1889[4] and was president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (now the National Textile Association) in 1889.[4]
Lippitt was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican and served from March 4, 1911 to March 3, 1917. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-second Congress). Lippitt had been elected by the state legislature, and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916, following passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, which provided that U.S. Senators be chosen by popular vote.
After leaving the Senate, he again became actively engaged in the textile industry.[1] He served as Chairman of the Board of the Manville-Jenckes tire fabric company of Pawtucket.[1]
He was a member of the Squantum Association, Hope Club, Agawam Hunt Club, Rhode Island Yacht Club, New York Yacht Club, Larchmont Yacht Club, and University Club of New York.[5] He was also a member of New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association,[5] and in 1892 he joined the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Senator Lippitt died in Providence December 28, 1933.[1] He was interred in the Lippitt family plot at Swan Point Cemetery.[6]
Family
In 1881 Lippitt married Mary Louise Bowen, a member of another family prominent in the Rhode Island textile manufacturing business.[4] Their children included Louise, Henry, Frances, and John Bowen Lippitt.[4]