Republican
Elected Officials
State
Senate
 Dennis
Algiere Senate Minority Leader
Dennis L. Algiere represents District 38, which
covers Westerly and part of Charlestown. He
is a Westerly native who graduated from Westerly
High School and now works as a senior vice-president
for The Washington Trust Company in downtown
Westerly. Dennis began his political career
in 1990, when he was elected to the Westerly
Town Council. He was elected Senator on November
3, 1992 and appointed Senate Deputy Minority
Leader in 1995. In 1997, the Republican caucus
elected him Minority Leader. In that capacity,
he is an ex-officio member of all Senate committees.
Dennis is heavily involved in his community.
He has served on a number of boards and committees,
including: The Westerly Hospital; Lions Club
of Westerly; the Westerly-Pawcatuck Joint Development
Task Force; the Westerly Old Town Hall Museum;
President’s Advisory Council on the Arts
of the John F. Kennedy Center; the Consumer
Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board
of Governors; the President’s Council,
Providence College; St. Pius X School; the
Westerly Education Endowment Fund; and the
Chorus of Westerly. Dennis has served as chairman
of the Westerly Library and Wilcox Park capital
campaign, the St. Pius X capital campaign,
and the Westerly Police Department building
committee.
Westerly
Town Council
 Chris
Duhamel is serving his fifth
term on the Westerly
Town
Council.
Chris is
married with four children and is a professional
engineer who was awarded 2008 RI engineer of
the year. He has applied his experience to
support the town public works and utilities
improvements for water, sewer and roadways.
Chris serves on several committees with tasks
that has included rebuilding the town highway
garage, installing a state of the art MIOX
water treatment system, permitting a new drinking
water well, re-writing the town comprehensive
plan, supporting Stand Up for Animals building
project, supporting the police reserve training,
and supporting vision 20/20 high school renovation
to name a few. In the previous term, Chris
worked to receive an $875 grant to rebuild
the water tank and $1.25 MM settlement from
national grid to replace a well. Chris is working
on the alternative energy committee to build
a wind turbine to reduce the town’s long
term energy costs.
 Caswell
Cooke, Jr. is
a five-term member of the Westerly
Town Council. During his time on the Council,
he has served as liaison to the North End Crime
Watch and as an advocate for fiscal responsibility,
alternative energy and recycling as well as
advocating for road and sidewalk as well as
infrastructure improvements. He has also championed
land preservation in our town. Caswell runs
the Town's Blues on the Beach program. He is
Executive Director and founder of the Misquamicut
Business Association which promotes a family-friendly
beach and has worked since 2000 to re-invent
and redefine the image of Misquamicut. Caswell
works on most of the events at Misquamicut
including the Misquamicut Music Festival. He
is co-owner of the Seafood Haven Restaurant
and Breachway Pizza and Grinders. Caswell also
runs Caswell Cooke Productions and provides
entertainment booking for several national
classic rock stars including Chad and Jeremy,
Terry Sylveser of The Hollies and Denny Laine
of Wings and The Moody Blues. Caswell is a
lifelong resident of Westerly, is on the Board
of Directors for the Chorus of Westerly, a
communicant of Christ Church, former Chair
of the Westerly Republican Town Committee,
Delegate to RI GOP State Central Committee,
2008 McCain Delegate and Vice Chairman. Caswell
attended St. Pius X Grammar School, Prout High
School and Boston University. Caswell is engaged
to Sara Albanese and has a daughter, Madelyn
Margaret Cooke born in May of this year.
 Richard “Dick” C.
Anthony is serving his second
term on the Westerly Town Council. Dick
is a Vietnam
Veteran
and
Lieutenant. He has over thirty years experience
in the municipal finance and bond industry.
He has served on the Comprehensive Plan Committee,
the Planning Board, and a Charter Revision
Commission. He was a former Weekapaug Fire
District treasurer and a Chairman of the Weekapaug
Foundation for Conservation. His major efforts
have centered on controlling and redeploying
town revenues toward maintaining and improving
town infrastructure. He has specifically guided
the town in helping to improve its credit rating
and lowering its borrowing costs.
Westerly
School Committee
 David
"Jay" Goodman is
serving his first term on the School
Committe. He
grew up in southeastern Connecticut,
attending St. Bernard’s High
School and Trinity College. After
getting his Ph.D. in economics from
the University of Colorado in 1995,
he taught at Colorado State University
in Pueblo for 10 years, becoming
a department chair in 2001. He currently
runs a small business that makes
leak detection equipment for the
retail petroleum industry. Jay has
lived with his wife Connie, also
a small business owner, and their
three children Hope, Hedy and Hayes
in Westerly since 2004. They attend
Dunn’s Corners Community Church
where Jay is a trustee. This summer
they hosted their first child through
the Fresh Air Fund. Jay also serves
on the Westerly School Committee’s
Strategic Financial Planning Subcommittee.
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