PROVIDENCE — Disgruntled with state government? Well, a new one takes over today.
Lincoln Chafee will take the oath of office as Rhode Island’s 74th governor, and the first since colonial times elected as an Independent, at noon on the south steps of the Statehouse.
Chafee is the 58th governor if you count from after a new constitution was adopted after the Dorr Rebellion in 1842.
