States in recognition of his support for the Union during the Civil War. Death and burial Governor Hoppin died in Providence on April 19, 1890, and was buried in Providence's Swan Point Cemetery. References Further reading Yale Obituaries Ex-gov- William W. Hoppin Dead, New York Times, April 20, 1890 William Warner Hoppin at National Governors Association J. H. Beers & Co. (Chicago), Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Volume 1, 1908, page 87 James T. White & Company (New York), The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume 9, 1899, page 400 1807 births 1890 deaths Republican Party governors of Rhode Island Hopkins School alumni Yale Law School alumni Rhode Island lawyers Republican Party members of the Rhode Island House of Representatives Republican Party Rhode Island state senators Rhode Island Whigs Rhode Island Know Nothings Providence City Council members People of Rhode Island in the American Civil War Burials at Swan Point Cemetery Whig Party state governors of the United States 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American lawyers