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Hopkins, Stephen (1707 - 1785) Role: First Chancellor of Rhode Island College (later Brown University) Dates: Portrait Location: University Hall 312. Artist: Hagen, John Philip () Portrait Date: 1999. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 27. Framed Dimensions: 38. Brown Portrait Number: 275. Brown Historical Property Number: 2315.
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Brown's first Chancellor, Stephen Hopkins served as a Delegate to the Colonial Congress in Albany in 1754 and to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. He was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence on behalf of the state of Rhode Island.
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