
James Howard McGrath (28 November 1903-2 September 1966) was the Democratic Governor of Rhode Island from 7 January 1941 to 6 October 1945 (succeeding William Henry Vanderbilt III and preceding John Pastore), United States Solicitor General from 6 October 1945 to 25 October 1946 (succeeding Charles Fahy and preceding Philip Perlman), a US Senator from 3 January 1947 to 23 August 1949 (succeeding Peter G. Gerry and preceding Edward L. Leahy), and Attorney General from 23 August 1949 to 3 April 1952 (succeeding Tom C. Clark and preceding James P. McGranery).
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James Howard McGrath was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island in 1903, and he served as city solicitor of Central Falls from 1930 to 1934, as United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island from 1934 to 1940, as Governor from 1941 to 1945 (sponsoring a workers' compensation fund and a labor relations board), as Solicitor General from 1945 to 1946, as a US Senator from 1947 to 1949, and as United States Attorney General from 1949 to 1952. McGrath notably integrated the Democratic national headquarters staff. He resigned in 1952 rather than resort to extreme measures during an anti-corruption investigation, and he died in 1966.