Edwin D. McGuinness
Edwin Daniel McGuinness was Providences first Irish Catholic mayor.
Edwin Daniel McGuinness was born in Providence, Rhode Island on May 17, 1856, son of Bernard McGuinness and Mary Higgins, both Irish immigrants. He attended public schools, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1877. He went on to receive his law degree in 1879 from Boston University Law School. He was admitted to the Rhode Island Bar in that same year and joined with John Doran to form the firm of McGuinness amp Doran.
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