George P. Wetmore


George Peabody Wetmore was the 37th Governor and a United States Senator from Rhode Island.

George Peabody Wetmore was born in London, England, during a visit of his parents abroad. His father was William Shepard Wetmore, a wealthy Yankee trader. George Wetmore received his early education at the private schools of Messrs. Reed and Thurston and of the Rev. William C. Leverett in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1867 he graduated from Yale College, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.104 After graduation he studied for two years at the Columbia Law School. He received the degree of LL.B. in 1869, and was admitted to the bars of Rhode Island and New York the same year, although he never practiced.

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