Death
A few months after declaring that he would not seek reelection in 2000, he died suddenly from congestive heart failure in October 1999 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. His son, Lincoln Chafee, was appointed to serve the remainder of his term, and then won a full term in the 2000 election. Senator Chafee was survived by his wife Virginia Coates Chafee, a daughter and three other sons in addition to Lincoln.
In 2000, Senator Chafee was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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