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Name: Roger Williams
Birth Date: c. 1603
Death Date: 1683
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: clergyman

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Biography of Roger Williams
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Roger Williams (ca. 1603-1683), Puritan clergyman in America, founded Providence, Rhode Island. He was the first American spokesman for religious toleration and the separation of church and state. Roger Williams's views on the relationship of church...
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Biography of Roger Williams
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Although Roger Williams by no means originated the concept of separation of church and state or the notion that one's religious beliefs are inviolably private matters, it is for these two principles that he is best known. Williams was indeed an early...


Quotations
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God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state... Roger Williams ( 1603-12-21 – 1684-04-01 ) was an Anglo-American clergyman, a pioneering advocate for freedom of conscience in religious matters, and the...


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Williams, Roger Summary
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WILLIAMS, ROGER (1603–1683), English and American Puritan minister and prophet of religious liberty, founder of Rhode Island. Born in London, Roger Williams was the son of Alice and James Williams, a merchant tailor. Of his early education...
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Williams, Roger Summary
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c.1603 London, England 1683 Rhode Island Pioneer of religious freedom, founder of Rhode Island Portrait: Roger Williams. " . . . all men may walk as their consciences persuade...
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Roger Williams Information
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Roger Williams (December 21, 1603–April 1, 1683) was an English theologian, a notable proponent of the separation of church and state, an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans, founder of the city of Providence, Rhode Island and...


News and Journals
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Commonweal
Haight on trial.(Catholic theologian Roger Haight)(Brief Article)
05/18/2001: 508 words, approx. 2 pages
The news is pathetically familiar--yet another theologian barred from teaching, and set to writing a take-home exam for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. According to Robert Manning, S.J., president of the Weston School of Theology, Roger Haight, S.J., professor of theology at the school,...
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The Washington Post
William P. Rogers
01/06/2001: 444 words, approx. 2 pages
IT HAS BEEN said that William P. Rogers was a person upon whom the government could depend. At the time of his death on Tuesday at age 87, Mr. Rogers had served three Republican presidents in a public career that covered nearly 50 years....
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AP News
Take my name off law school, donor says
7/18/2007: 514 words, approx. 2 pages
Amid outrage from students, school leaders and legislators over his use of the N-word, the former chairman of the Roger Williams University board said Wednesday he wants his name removed from its law school.Ralph Papitto, who has donated millions of dollars to the university, used...
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Lawyer: Ex-R.I. senator making plea deal
2/16/2007: 291 words, approx. 1 pages
A former state senator already headed to federal prison for corruption plans to plead no contest to state charges next week, his lawyer told The Associated Press on Friday.John Celona is expected to enter the pleas Tuesday to one felony count of accepting money under...
 


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