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Gordon Fox
Gordon Dennis Fox (born 1961) is an American politician from Providence, Rhode Island and formerly the Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. A Democrat, he was first elected to the legislature in 1992 and was elected speaker on February 11, 2010. Fox resigned from the Speakership on March 22, 2014 following an FBI raid on his state office and home. On March 3, 2015, it was announced that Fox had agreed to plead guilty to three criminal charges in U.S. District Court.
==Early life and career==
One of six siblings, Fox is the son of an Irish-American father, a jewelry polisher, and a Cape Verdean mother, who worked as a maid and later at a golf ball factory. His parents met while his father was stopped in Providence while he was returning to Boston after his service in the Korean War ended.〔 The family lived for a time in a Providence apartment with a view of the Statehouse. Fox's father died when he was eighteen.〔
Fox graduated from Classical High School in Providence.〔 He attended Providence College but had to drop out after a year when his father died. He continued his studies at Rhode Island College, where he earned a degree in history and political science.〔 He then graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, paying his way by working at a Carvel ice cream shop. He became an attorney.
Fox unsuccessfully ran for the Providence City Council in the mid-1980s. He then worked on the campaigns of state representative Ray Rickman and state representative-turned-United Sttates Representative Patrick J. Kennedy.〔
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