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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2021

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING DANIEL J. MCKEE ON BECOMING THE GOVERNOR OF THE

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

     Introduced By: Senators Ruggerio, McCaffrey, Goodwin, and Algiere

     Date Introduced: March 09, 2021

     Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration

     WHEREAS, Governor Daniel McKee is a person with vast public service experience,

having served in local government as a member of the Cumberland Town Council from 1992 to

2001, and as the Mayor of Cumberland twice, first from 2001 to 2005, and later from 2007 to

2015. He has also served our State in an executive capacity as Rhode Island’s 69th Lieutenant

Governor from 2015 to 2021; and

     WHEREAS, Governor McKee was born in Cumberland to a family that has owned and

operated a small business for more than one hundred years. He graduated from Cumberland High

School, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Assumption College, and holds a Master of

Public Administration degree from the Harvard Kennedy School; and

     WHEREAS, Governor McKee has had a long and successful business career, serving as

an officer of McKee Brothers, an air conditioning, heating, and oil delivery business, and ran a

health and fitness business for more than thirty years; and

     WHEREAS, In his time as the Mayor of Cumberland, Governor McKee successfully

collaborated with federal and state officials to minimize the damage from the historic flooding

that hit Cumberland and other parts of Rhode Island in 2010. As Lieutenant Governor, he served

as the Chair of the National Lieutenant Governors Association, Co-Chair of the NLGA’s Energy

Committee, and as a member of its Education Committee; and

     WHEREAS, Governor McKee has focused much of his energies as an elected official on

growing the economy and creating an environment and climate in which small businesses can

thrive and job opportunities are abundant. He has also been a tireless champion of Rhode Island’s

Cities and Towns; and

     WHEREAS, Governor McKee coached basketball, both boys and girls, at all levels, and

won two State AAU Basketball Championships in 1998 and 2000. He has also served as a

member of the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Club of Cumberland-Lincoln for twenty-

five years. He is married to Susan and has two adult children, Matt and Kara; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby congratulates Daniel

McKee on becoming the 76th Governor of the State of Rhode Island. We wish him well and look

forward to working with him to solve the difficult problems facing the State of Rhode Island; and

be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to the Honorable Governor of the State of Rhode

Island, Mr. Daniel J. McKee.

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