Governor · Rhode Island

Dan McKee

Governor of Rhode Island

Dan McKee is the governor of Rhode Island, in office since March 2, 2021. A Democrat and former mayor of Cumberland, he was elected lieutenant governor in 2014, moved up to the governor's office in 2021 and won a full term in 2022.

Background

Biography

Dan McKee was born on June 16, 1951, in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and graduated from Cumberland High School. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and education from Assumption College and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. His official biography says he has owned and operated small businesses in the Blackstone Valley for three decades.

McKee began in public service on the Cumberland Town Council, where he served for eight years before being elected mayor. After 12 years as mayor he left that office in 2014, when he was elected lieutenant governor.

A Democrat, he is the state's 76th governor. His official biography says he "ascended to the Governor's Office in 2021" and was re-elected to his first full term in 2022, and says he became governor in March 2021. The National Governors Association lists his first term as beginning on March 2, 2021, and his current term on January 3, 2023.

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