Former Rhode Island Attorney General Dennis J. Roberts II Dies
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Former Rhode Island Attorney General Dennis J. Roberts II has died, GoLocal has learned.
Roberts served three terms as Attorney General from 1979 to 1985. He was defeated by former nun Arlene Violet in 1984. Violet, a Republican, was America’s first female Attorney General.
His late father was former State Supreme Chief Justice and Federal District Court Judge Thomas Roberts, and his late uncle Dennis Roberts, was former Mayor of Providence and former Governor of Rhode Island. Both were political powerhouses.
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He received his J.D. from Boston College Law School.
